I cannot get over the Tesla Roadster. Not only is it appealing aesthetically (who am I kidding? It's smokin' hot!) but it is also all electric. That's right. No gasoline. How awesome is that? Now for the ridiculous specs. This car offers 288 horsepower and 295 ft-lbs of torque (On the sport model, on the regular model it has 273 ft-lbs.) And if that isn't impressive enough on its own, since it is an electric motor, all of its torque is available all of the time - not on an rpm-based curve like a fuel engine would be. The Roadster Sport goes from 0-60 in only 3.7 seconds while the base model does it in 3.9 seconds (for comparison, the SRT-8 Challenger takes 4.8 seconds to do so and gets 13/19mpg city/hwy.) A full charge can take the Tesla Roadster 245 miles, and when it's time to recharge, it can plug into a normal grounded wall socket.
Downfall is... the base model runs $101.5k including government tax credits, and the sport model is $20k more. Christmas present anyone?

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