April 13, 2022 10:40 am EST Tesla It's been five years. We've had elections, military conflicts, and an entire pandemic, but still no Tesla Roadster. Elon Musk sort of shocked everyone when he announced Tesla was working on another Roadster in 2017. Even more shocking were the performance claims: 620 miles of range and a 1.9 second zero to sixty time. We picked apart that claim, of course, as that would make the Roadster one of the fastest cars ever. It wasn't cheap, either. Tesla said base versions would start at $200,000 with a $50,000 reservation. If you wanted the Founders Edition, that was a quarter-million bucks. A few years went by. Nothing happened. The car was delayed in early 2020, with Musk saying that it wasn't a priority given the Cybertruck (which is kind of ironic if you think about it), even though he literally asked people to place a deposit on it. Later that year, reservation holders were freaked out when the Roadster was removed from Tesla's site briefly. This is accidental. Will be back shortly.