I was kind of annoyed after a meeting (and an annoying electrical problem with my audi's parking sensors) the other day, so I drove over to the Tesla dealer in Menlo Park -- sitting in an awesome $100k car is a great motivator to work on a startup faster (so as to be able to buy a Tesla and a house to charge it in).

The interesting thing I learned is that a lot of the Tesla Roadsters will be available as Certified Pre-Owned, starting in Fall 2012 and pretty much into 2013. They had a bunch of them out for "lease a Roadster until your Model S is ready", and those are delivery positions in Fall 2012; there was also a lease program which will be expiring in 2013 as well (since the Roadster is no longer in production). I am still a lot more into a Model S sized car (luxury and functionality over performance and "fun"), but it would be a good option.