The gloom and doom that fans felt when Tesla->ke1842 announced it was ending production of the Roadster->ke1843 electric car will end up being short-lived.

According to reports, Tesla's flagship model will be returning to our lives in 2014, albeit in a slightly different guise. Unlike the first incarnation of the Roadster, which used a body supplied from Lotus and was limited to only 2,500 units, the new Roadster will be built from the ground up by Tesla themselves. This set-up is similar to the company's second model, the Model S, which had Tesla's fingerprints all over it from the very beginning.

No word yet on what the parameters for the 2014 Roadster is going to be but it appears that it would carry a tweaked version of the Model S->ke3329 platform or the "third generation platform" as some folks within the Tesla circle have called it.

Tesla CEO Elan Musk has said that this new 'mass-market' platform will be the jumping board for all of the company's cars in the next four to five years and it appears that we already have an answer as to what model will spearhead that transition.

So rest easy, all you "Tes-lovers". It appears that the Roadster's demise was greatly exaggerated. It'll only take a hiatus before it returns to our lives in 2014.

Oh, happy days!

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