World's First Tesla Roadster Crash... That's Been Caught On Camera!

[Gizmo3000]

Originally Posted by ExigeMania

Ok i may be the only one..but please give me a good reason not to think the Tesla is a POS. It’s a car that uses most of the Elise’s parts and it doesn’t even look as good. The thing is that I’m a petrol head...i love cars, i love engines..i love the sound of an engine, i like driving my sports car on mountain roads and actually shift gears myself. What of the above dose the Tesla do? If i wanted a car to safe fuel, not burn oil and be friendly to the environment i would be driving a Prius not a sports car. 50% of the sports car experience is delivered by its engine, the Tesla doesn’t have one for god’s sake. I know you guys love cars..that’s why you have a Lotus so someone please tell me, what’s the point of the Tesla? And really who cares if its faster than our cars or other super cars? Supercharge Elise sound? Priceless….Tesla Sound? Emmmm what sound? So…sum up….TESLA…Doesn’t look that good, Doesn’t have a sound, doesn’t have an engine, Corners as good as an Elise and cost almost twice as much..hmmmm

It's one of those glass half-empty or glass-half full situations perhaps.
It lacks the traditional sports car experience, but it makes up for it in "futuristic" sports car experience.

It's not a car for everybody, nor is the Elise. - which compromises almost everything for the sake of performance.

A lot can be said about any product that costs twice as much as it's competitor.

If they were actually priced the same, I think quite a number of sports car enthusiasts like us would actually consider one over an Elise.
In regular city driving, they perform better than almost everything, while costing only 2 cents a mile to drive.

[ewalberg]

if it were the same price, it wouldn't be a point to consider, it'd be no contest that i'd want a Tesla... purely for sound and performance reasons. I too love the sound of the engine (if i'm on a track and i'm not like a friggin' police magnet), but given that i drive mine routinely on roads with police, a car which is silent or substantially quieter than normal is worth a lot of fun.

ALthough, I do really like the absence of power steering on the elise... what about the tesla?

I think i had a tesla behind me last night on highway 84, coming off skyline blvd into Woodside.