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Old Jan 23, 2008 | 10:44 PM
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So how fast is the Tesla Roadster really? In a few seconds, we're gonna find out because framed by its porthole-size windshield is a deliciously straight stretch of Skyline Boulevard, a knockout snake of a road we've never heard of before in the coastal hills above San Carlos, California. San Carlos, in case you're not Google-Earthing at the moment, is the inviting, northwestern Silicon Valley 'burb where Tesla decided to settle its unpretentious research and development quarters about four years ago. Through the trees, we occasionally glimpse Stanford's 285-foot-tall Hoover Tower some seven and a half miles away.

Okay, then, I've got the brake pedal stapled to the floor. The mirrors are scoped for innocent traffic. Coast is clear. Dip into the accelerator and...remember that Mark Twain quip about the coldest winter he ever knew being a summer in San Francisco? Ditto that for this San Carlos place. Except it's now December, the Roadster's top is AWOL, and an Arctic front is leaning in from the gray Pacific. But back to business.

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Old Jan 24, 2008 | 02:20 PM
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heres the video of the review

http://www.motortrend.com/av/roadtes...roadster_video

me want!!
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Old Jan 24, 2008 | 02:45 PM
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nice video!
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Old Jan 24, 2008 | 02:51 PM
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Great video!! A very unique car indeed. Love it!!
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