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Re:Tesla Roadster by ykl on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:55AM (#15719709)
> It's also insane to announce this car with what boils down to a bunch of CGI!

They had multiple real Roadsters at the announcements. You can see a red one in the main event video, and there are pictures of a silver one on Twitter.

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Re:Tesla Roadster by wintermute2001 on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:57AM (#15719724)
Yeah, it's just so odd that their website has the ultra fake video to demonstrate the 1.9 second 0-60 time!
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Re:Tesla Roadster by bjl on Friday November 17, 2017 @08:25AM (#15721747)
That's because the actual ones can't make that time.
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Re:Tesla Roadster by grkvlt on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:35AM (#15723448)
They absolutely seem to, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXWfL-1ieuE for example...
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Re:Tesla Roadster by wazoox on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:00PM (#15723706)
Absolutely nothing happens until the very end: https://youtu.be/aXWfL-1ieuE?t=3369
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