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Trying to steal a little thunder from Fisker’s introduction of the Karma, Tesla introduced a quicker version of its Roadster called the Sport. The Roadster Sport does 0 to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds, compared with 3.9 seconds for the standard Roadster. Telsa says this new performance comes from a hand-wound stator and increased winding density for lower resistance and higher peak torque. The Roadster Sport also has an improved suspension with adjustable dampers and anti-roll bars that Tesla will tune to the driver’s preference. Although Tesla has only delivered 150 of the standard Roadster, it says that anyone of the 1,100 people still on the waiting list can upgrade to the Sport model. But the upgrade doesn’t come cheap. Sales of the Sport model will begin in late June at a price of $128,500, about a $28,000 jump from the standard Roadster. Press release after the jump. Press release Tesla Motors Inc. began taking orders today for the Roadster Sport, a high-performance sports car based on the world’s leading all-electric, zero-emission vehicle. 4 comments: Tesla Roadster Sport Mechanically, there’s nothing really new about the Roadster Sport, but for those of you that can’t get enough images of the two-tone Roadster. Special editions already, they usually save that scam till the car has reached the end of its product life.
155 miles in an electric car? If you want to impress me, race against a mule team from California to the19-ought-3 World’s Fair!
 Tesla has already caused a big stir with just how good the performance of its electric powered Tesla Roadster is. And now Tesla has announced a Sport version of the Lotus Elise-based EV
 I would actually like a Tesla Roadster but they aren’t on sale in the UK yet. I don’t believe electric batteries are the way ahead but I don’t actually care with this car. It has good variety, large presentation and from the reconsiders I’ve read for it, it’s nearly as good as the Lotus that it’s founded on.
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03.4.2011 @ 00:05
The most practical thing for the next 5-10 years to make the US more energy independent would be to replace those gas guzzling V8’s in light-duty 1/2 ton pickups ( that sell in the 100,000+ each year) with turbo diesels. The 5.4L gas engine in my 2006 F150 is a gutless weakling with minimal low-down torque that gets barely 13-14 round town.
Ford etc just caved in to a perception that they could not sell diesels to the general truck buying public. So what is their solution ... a 6.2 V8!!