As the seller asserts, it is rare for Tesla Roadsters (made between 2008 and 2012) to come up for sale. Only 2,500 were produced globally, and only about 2,000 are left. This 2010 Roadster has 55,000 miles on it. It looks pristine in the photos, but with that mileage, any potential owner will be concerned about the battery’s health. How reassuring is “battery in great shape, no issues”? Thanks to Kiwie49 for this tip.
The interior has “some small wear,” and the top is “in great shape.” The car has mostly been in North Carolina, and the owner “only drives it to car shows on nice weekends. It’s a real head-turner. Most people have never seen one in person.” I not only have seen one, but it was the first Tesla I ever drove with my daughter in Greenwich, Connecticut (where the money is) circa 2008. It was unbelievably exhilarating, the first performance EV I’d driven. And it was proof that EVs were going to have their day. Keep in mind the field was virtually clear in 2008.
The Roadster, first revealed to the public in 2006, was based on the Lotus Elise and stunned the world with its ability to go 244 miles on a charge and attain 60 mph in 3.9 seconds. It topped out at 125 mph. One of these went into space on a Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018.
After building 500, Tesla started production of the 2010 Sport model, which had several major upgrades. Not only could it reach 60 in 3.7 seconds, but it also featured an upgraded interior and push-button gear selector, and an “executive interior.” Also, for 2010, there was a locking glove box, a centrally located video screen (shades of things to come), manually adjustable shock absorber response, anti-sway bars, and better HVAC. Sound-deadening and a more efficient motor were also on tap.
In July 2010, Tesla produced the Roadster 2.5 with many more upgrades, including a new front fascia and rear diffuser, directional forged wheels, more supportive seats, enhanced hot weather performance, and an optional seven-inch touchscreen. Is this a 2.5? The owner doesn’t say it is. It is being offered in Plymouth, Michigan, and is available on Facebook Marketplace with an asking price of $115,000. “One recently sold for more than $250,000,” we’re told, but the price might be a bit high. Classic.com says $96,568 is what a 2010 Roadster typically goes for. But, as noted, they come up for sale rarely, and this one appears very tidy. And you can always offer less.
At this point, I’d be embarrassed to be seen in anything with a Tesla nameplate.
Musk!
Musk= Lotus: Lots of tantrums, usually stupid.
Jim wrote – “One of these went into space on a Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018.”
Um, anyone believe this is real and actually happened?
I absolutely do. If I had the means, I’d shoot a 69 Z-28 into space, just to know I’d preserved one for all eternity. EM has the means. The only mistake he made was putting into orbit around the sun, where it’ll be swallowed up by the sun when it decays into a red giant in about 5 billion years.
The batteries will blow up before it gets in orbit and destroy the car.
Not according to flat earth people.
Are you referring to people who know the Earth is not a spinning ball flying through outer space?
I am 72 years old and have no intention of saving fossil fuel. I grew up with performance sounds in my ears and tire smoke in my nostrils. Love the smell of nitro methane burning in the cylinders of a top fuel dragster at an obscene consumption rate. By the way the horse power they produced in a little over 3 seconds of wide open throttle continues to increase every year, no dynos can measure .The sounds an internal combustion make at power on a road course. I don’t want to drive what sounds like an overgrown slot car. I can drive my CTSV to visit my 93 year old mother a little over 300 miles on a tank of fossil fuel. Refill the tank and I move, no wait, just go. Sorry the EV thing just doesn’t work for me.
Crude oil is an organic material, and since it’s not alive, it follows that it derives from something that was alive at some point.
Jim – here’s a rabbit hole to get you started:
The class Dinosauria was originally defined by Sir Richard Owen of the Royal Society and Superintendent of the British Museum Natural History Department in 1842. This was a speculative hypothesis made during the heyday of evolution, before a single dinosaur fossil had even been found.
Those that state our billions of barrels of crude oil came from dinosaurs begs the question; just how many dinosaurs existed way back then, and how in hell did they end up in mass graves 10,000’ feet below the earth’s surface?
Search abiotic oil…..
Spoken like a true angry old man and internal combustion zealot like myself, 76. God bless you sir. Once those EV’s catch fire you can’t put them out, which will be a nightmare for municipal fire departments
EV’s are not the panacea that they’re being portrayed as. Pollution in mining and producing batteries, microscopic rubber pollution from EV tires due to the high torque of the batteries, and how are the batteries disposed of?
Everything you said about EV manufacture applies equally to ICE cars. Lead acid batteries? Petroleum drilling and refining? Oh and gas engine cars never catch on fire? I remember when an oil slick caught on fire on the Cuyahoga river. It’s all a matter of degrees. One is more polluting and dangerous than the other and it ain’t EVs.
Since posting direct links sometimes results in your comment being hidden for some time – here’s my repost from earlier:
Thanks Al T. That’s more believable, plausible, logical. For those curious and doing more research on the topic, avoid using google/bing as your search tools, as they will only push approved mainstream narratives (generally lies, fantasies, untruths).
Alternatives:
duckduckgo.com
mojeek.com
search.brave.com
metager.org
startpage.com (uses google results but no tracking)
Best privacy respecting Browsers:
librewolf.net
brave.com
mullvad.net/en/browser
torproject.org (Onion browser)
BTW I know it isn’t dinosaur juice, but that’s what they told me as a kid. They also threw it out in the 70’s it was running out so….
Yeah, didn’t mean to insinuate you didn’t know, just wanted to comment on the misnomer ‘Fossil Fuels’.
‘They’ have told us a lot more untruth about our reality. Lots.
Are you a Flat Earth member too?
What a bunch of hooey.
$115,000? There’s one born every minute.
It’s got the body, but it has no soul. It would if it had ICE power.
So a Lotus Elise then ???
I agree it’s the ICE that is largely responsible for a cars soul
The car has mostly been in North Carolina, and the owner “only drives it to car shows on nice weekends.
55,000 miles. A lot of the car shows must be in California.
So 2,500 made, now down to 2,000, where did the other 500 go? People just left them on the side of the road?
One of the biggest problems other than bursting into flames is they have to get. Charging time down to about ten minutes On a long trip if you had to stop and recharge the battery after approximately every five hours of driving you h
had to sit for two hours to recharge the battery people are not going to accept that
A two hour charge on for a five hour drive? That isn’t too bad on a scale of this sucks to this isn’t too bad. Having to charge every fifty miles and relying on a specific charger to not only be in service but not in use when one arrives is a worry for the best case scenario. Arriving at the only charger that is compatible and finding it out of service and only having a few percentage points of juice left to go and not finding anywhere on the site location app map sucks. Stressing trying to reach a person on the other end of the phone number on the side charging machine Is bad and finally when someone picks up is better. Totally rocks if they are able to send a remote reboot signal to charger then sucks when that fails. Only to plead with them to keep trying for you because without that charger you aren’t going anywhere until the flatbed car hauler has to pick you up (which would suck) only to be elated when the reboot works and after a couple hours trying to get a twenty minute quick charge, one can be on their way is well that sucked but it was almost worse.
Cattoo: Is this from experience or conjecture? ,Because I can totally see this happening.
Lots of great comments on this jalopy. My first thought are the battery packs. You see you can’t just buy a single battery and do-it-yoursefer. You must buy a complete multi-battery package costing around 10k for the replacement. The untold story remains how long do Tesla batteries last? Elon won’t touch that one. Batteries don’t last more than a few years on regular cars, now imagine multiple batteries all cabled together dying at the same time? First thing needed is a manual voltage check of each battery. Charging and recharging 12v batteries is bad, always has been. It reduces life. I don’t get it, folks somehow think EV Batteries will last the life of the car? Anyway.. that’s the most important factor here to deal with. The car on the Rocket is not only fake news but crazy news. Yes, as I live only a few miles from KSC, Teslas are used within the Spaceport. But no joyrides on a Space X yet. Too much money, not a classic, everybody hates Tesla so I say run away. jv smashpalace
Elon and his vehicles can go in the trash compactor as far as I am concerned, but the last time I was at Pick and Pull, they had a pallet of used Prius battery packs for sale for $98.00/each. A cab company in San Francisco had retired a number of Prius with them. Apparently, folks are using them in lieu of generators on their RVs. I saw a young guy who goes to where RVs congregate and he manufactures and sells them out of the back of his box truck.
I’ve read something similar, that after a battery pack is too weak to power a car it still has enough kWh for some light home back-up power
Mmmm… no thanks. The main reason that Tesla sells is that it’s part cult, part status symbol, and part virtue signalling accessory. There’s always a market for that, and in some countries tax policy has distorted the market to make them more popular than they might be otherwise.
In the U.S. the major manufacturers are losing billions of dollars producing electric cars that the typical new car buyer is not interested in. Bear in mind if you see someone claiming electric car sales are “up” that car manufacturers consider the car “sold” when it’s shipped to the dealer. Then it’s the dealer’s problem to unload the stupid things if they can.
You know, all great comments, but slighted somewhat. Like Cadmanls, I too burned my fair share of fuel, 50+ gallons a day or more, and I never thought I was doing something wrong. Our country needed the goods, and I was merely the wheel man. I’d walk right past this,,,thing,,not a glance. That seems to be the general consensus of most of us here, but we represent a dwindling group, that think ’63 Rivieras and other ICE examples, are right, of course we are going to poo-poo these. DEnial is strong here, and I’m the biggest opponent of EVs, but guess what? They are here to stay. I talked with my nephew, age 40, what gives with all this. He said, battery technology is on the cusp of improvement. It won’t be much longer, he claims, and he’s a sharp kid. It’s unusual, EVERYTHING in our society has doubled in price, except gas. I wonder why that is? The only way any alternative means will be implemented, is when nothing comes out of the pump. Seems how America does things. Until then, EVs do ease the gas usage, but this for that. Again, where is the juice going to come from? The 75,611 windmills currently operating? Not bloody likely, another farce if I ever saw’r one. Each windmill cost between 2.6 and 4 mil to build. It takes 7,000 windmills to equal one nucular[sic] powerplant. Considering what we need for juice, figuratively speaking, a windmill barely produces enough juice to light the light at the top. And don’t forget the most impartent port,,,,no wind, no power. I have only a few years left on this Ball of Confusion( written in 1970) and quite frankly, I don’t give a darn.
I put a 10kW solar array on my roof this year. I understand this isn’t feasible for most. I use an average of 20 kWh/day and produce an average of 60 kWh/day (so far). I easily have enough surplus for a beer fridge in the garage and probably enough for an EV commuter car if I could only afford one
The Tesla owners in my neck of the woods are mostly rich soccer moms and wispy bearded beta males with the optional man bun.
Is that opposed to obese Alpha males with manbuns?
Does Not Exist.
Obese auto-disqualifies being Alpha.
Tell that to all the bearded elephants that I see around town covered in Harley tattoos.
The Tesla roadster was universally hated on Top Gear UK. It performed clumsily when tested on a road course because of its high weight due to the battery pack. It constantly died on the track and true range was on 50 miles as I recall when driven like a sports car. The car is really only for someone with more money that sets, and not really looking for a performance car but rather just to have something someone else doesn’t. Better to buy a Lotus Elise and get the real thing with real performance and handling.
Wow Tesla has become the new Prius. I have to give it to Tesla. The brand creates emotion for every love there is a hate. Personally I like Tesla because technologically their electronics and software are second to none. They have shaken up the automotive industry on how to design and build a car. The use of gigacastings and assembly methods have reduced the cost of production. Their safety is among the best in the industry.
I personally will never own an electric car. Maybe a hybrid someday but as a technician I love the internal combustion engine and the sound and smell of one. My daily driver is a classic car and I own several classics from the 60’s and 70’s. There will be a time where owning an internal combustion engine for the daily driver will not be viable. The engines that are being produced now have the complexity that will render them not practical to maintain and the motor and battery will be the better option. I just hope it won’t be in my lifetime.
Wow, you guys are brutal. I agree with some of everything you say, but I think it’s a mistake to make broad generalities about ICE and EV. I’m not taking a EV cross country. Charging infrastructure and time is an issue. However, if like a huge percentage of the population drives less than 200 miles a day, driving an EV and charging at home is reasonable. Before you string me up, let me say that I own 2 iCE toys, a British sports car and a vintage Chris Craft. The sound coming from both of them is just music. However, I also love the 0-60 in less than 4 seconds with no torque curve. It’s exhilarating. Having said that, let me weigh in a little on EV batteries. In my business we used multiple Prius hybrids. I realize we are not exactly comparing apples to apples, but we are talking about repeated recharging. We drive those hybrids between 200,000 and 300,000 miles and never had a battery failure. We had engine failures but never batteries. Having said that, I would never buy an expensive, 15 year old EV if there was no way to test the batteries first.
Wow, 0-60 in less than 4 seconds. My Dodge Ram with a 6,7Turbo Diesel takes 10 seconds to do that. You must take great comfort knowing you can beat me to Walmart by 8 seconds.
You brought up a good point- most people (who don’t live in the boondocks) have daily driving needs well within the range of contemporary EVs. If you need to visit grandma in Timbuktu, rent an ICE vehicle. The savings in gas and maintenance might allow you to afford to rent a Hummer for the trip to grandma’s. Needing a Suburban year round so that you can take your annual summer vacation is like saying you need to own a U-Haul truck for those 2 or 3 times that you will move in your lifetime.
So true. Much of the market is not passionate about cars, they just want something easy to transport themselves
This is the one time I would drop a crate motor in this thing and scrap all the electronics garbage. Take that econazis! LOL
Wow, I am laughing my butt off reading all the comments.
Don’t drive past a current bush on your trip to the desert.
Couldn’t give me one.
Have fun ya’all !
Tesla are all over the Phoenix metro area and suburbs, along with all the other makes of electrics.
That is a lot of money for a fancy golf cart
Roger GUYS REALLY a tesla on HERE?????
Tonio,
The Moderator probably drives one.
Or daughter.
Definitely a future collector’s item.
Way to go Jim! haha, you got the BarnFinders riled up with this one.
Hey moderator! Why doesn’t the thumbs up thingy work? I’ve been breaking my thumb trying to compliment all the great comments!
I agree with MattH on this.
Hurca momma Hurca, fire cookie!
Although us car guys mostly hate Tesla, and that their sales are starting to tank, the #1 selling car in the U.S. and the world is a Tesla.
So tell me Matt, what’s Fox (Faux) news say? I wouldn’t know.
How are solid, provable, sales figures fake news?
On second thought, please don’t provide an answer.
Anyone remember this little bit of recent history – the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012?
If you missed it, do a little research. You might then realize the news is mostly propaganda.
Time to start deleting comments, starting with Rusty. I can’t wait. Let’s go! 😆😆😆
What? Why?
His man bun was insulted, I guess.
I don’t believe that Rusty wears a man bun, based on his comments.
Did anyone pay attention in high school geography class?
Do you remember how the earth is shrinking? Just like if you place a orange on a plate and obverse it for a week then two weeks? The outer skin starts to buckle and crack?
Ring a bell? Our planet is always on the move. The tectonic plates on our planet are always consuming and regurgitating everything that is folded within the journey inward. Pay attention brothers. Look what is taking place on the big island of Hawaii. Oil is not from dinosaurs. Oil has been a soup produced by the movement of the plates of our home.
This planet will never run out of petroleum. Period.
The EV phenomenon is just that. A hoax brought on by a subjective group after your funds without justified reasons.
I’m going to follow this line of thinking up with the basics.
Friends, we are not experiencing global warming.
We are in a cyclical episode of planetary interaction. We just happen to be along for the ride. There is nothing that any human singularly or with 5 billion followers can do to augment any perceived outcome.
Are you guys paying attention to the volcanic activity? How bout the tremors along with the quakes?
Feel free to consider it however you might. There is nothing that any mortal human can do to change anything about it.
Friends, it is what it is.
Junk
Judging by some of the comments above. We are doomed. Like they say, there are none so blind as those who would not see.
Fox man,
Give a listen to Pink Floyd, Momentary lapse of Reason album.
In fact, anything by “The Floyd”.
Has anyone really thought out the weight displacement pounds per square inch of a EV?
These vehicles weigh 1.75 times more than your 1969 Cadillac Sedan Deville per square inch of tire surface. They should be riding on 80k gvw semi truck tires that are 10-12 ply tires.
Think about what goes on when the torque meets the pavement.
KInda related, but maybe not- A friend of ours is a Rocket Test Engineer for SpaceX based at the Florida facility. She previously worked at the site near Waco, TX. We were able to visit and had a guided tour of the facility. No matter what I or anybody else thinks of Musk, the place was amazing and you could feel the buzz and the energy from the young workforce. We were able to see (And touch) a few recently-returned from space, rocket sections. They are yet another technological marvel you have to see in-person to fully appreciate their size and power. Plus getting a few “Occupy Mars” t-shirts, SpaceX hats, and a business card that reads “Rocket Test Engineer” is pretty cool. We also got to hear our friend do the Countdown of their last launch on YouTube. If you believe the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory, I believe we had a brush with greatness. You are free to agree or disagree!
2 years ago , most of my posts were getting deleted but readers have finally come around and have seen the lies and deceit ! Nice to know that more are waking up to reality …