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Elon Musk confirms talks to merge Tesla and SpaceX (www.bbc.com)
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[+] -13 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Building supercars is always more time consuming than anticipated. The Bugatti Veyron was unveiled in 1999 but it was repeatedly delayed for 6 years until they started actual production in 2005.

Musk is still an asshat, but the the timeline for the new roadster is not weird or sketchy (yet...)

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  • [–] 37 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    The roadster was unveiled in 2017, and was supposed to come out in 2020.

    It's been almost 10 years since the announcement, and almost 7 years since it was supposed to be out on the streets.

    Since then it was postponed, at least twice, to 2023 and then 2024.

    AND, what they presented last week is in no way shape or form, anything like was it was supposed to be in 2020. And it's basically a gimmick.

    It's EXTREMELY sketchy.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, I only had the "half decade" delay mentioned in the comment I replied to as reference, which in itself wouldn't be cause for concern.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    They could have come out with the original concept a long time ago. But that was never the plan. The whole thing was never anything but a stunt to grab attention. The flying roadster was certainly effective in that, but nobody is ever going to sit in one of those cars while the tanks are pressurised.

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