The Tesla Roadster already launches the challenge to Ferrari

The Tesla Roadster, the most powerful car ever designed by the American manufacturer, is already launching the challenge to Ferrari. Leaking out that the extreme performance announced two years could be overcome in the final model.

The Tesla Roadster? "There is nothing like it"

The latest revelations come from the head of Design Tesla, Franz von Holzhausen. A rather shy type, who made one of his rare appearances in the podcast program Ride the Lightning, edited by Ryan McCaffrey (below the video). Von Holzhausen explained that development work has continued over these two years. And that the final version of the Tesla Roadster could even more impressive performance than the prototype that was shown coming out of the back of another developing product, the Semi truck. "The Roadster is growing very encouragingly. And it needs more time. It will be even better than what we showed. In every sense"Said the chief designer.

We remember that at the time Elon Musk parò of an acceleration “insane"," Crazy ", from 0 to 100 in 1.9 seconds, with a top speed slightly above 400 km / h. Without charging anxiety: a battery from 200 kWh indeed it would ensure more 600 km of autonomy. Only dreams? The site Teslarati.com (here the article) remember that so far in Tesla production cars has always done better than announced at first. "It's a surprising machine, there is nothing like it around. I think he can show what an electric vehicle can do", Added Von Holzhausen.

A (theoretical) comparison with Superfast

After all, it was Musk himself, in an appearance a Ride the Lightning, to define the performance of the Roadster "almost unfair to gasoline or diesel-powered cars". Or "almost incorrect compared to petrol or diesel cars"(click here). The fact is that Tesla continues to talk about the Roadster a price of 200 thousand dollars and a full production of 10 thousand pieces a year. Which would put this car in competition not with the electric hypercars from 100 pieces a year and prices from a million upwards. Type Rimac or Pininfarina Baptist. But with the most powerful racing cars of historic brands like Ferrari. Of course, the charm of the Cavallino brand is something completely different from the brand awareness of the Fremont brand. And the statements before Musk and now of Von Holzhausen must be confirmed not in simple prototypes, but in an approved model.

But of course the confrontation becomes tantalizing, although at the moment (see the table above) is only a theoretical exercise. Difficult for the Roadster to arrive on the market before 2021. While the Ferrari, by the mouth of his to Jean Louis Camilleri, speaks of the launch of its own electric model not before 2023. Camilleri explained that Americans love them very much electric supercars. And that not offering an electric Ferrari to its first market in the world would be a mortal sin (here the article). But in the meantime how many customers will have conquered Tesla? And there will be Ferrari drivers willing to abandon the roar of the 8 and 12 cylinders of Maranello recalled by the sirens of the "insane" performance of the Roadster? What is certain is that Elon Musk is also challenging the (unwritten) rules of automotive marketing. We have been coming for decades in which the Houses have done everything to connote their brands. He gives a fuck and launches a range that goes from Model 3 to trucks, from the Roadster to a work pickup.