- I feel so dangerous right now.
- Ah!
(laughing)
- Whoa!
- Today is a big day.
Tesla Roadster is coming.
I cannot wait to show you, it's on a semi truck
and it's being delivered to this parking lot
that I'm standing in right now.
They couldn't come to my house 'cause the semi truck
was too big, time to show you the roadster.
(light music)
This is actually a 2010, the number 523rd
Tesla Roadster ever made.
If you saw that video where Elon Musk sent a roadster
to space, they call it Star Man, this one is made
like 300 before that one, that was like 800 something.
This cost the same amount as the deposit that I had
for the 250,000 dollar roadster so this is what we got.
It's a tiny, little car and it doesn't work
on the supercharger network and it's kinda quirky
but I'm excited to try it out.
It's not exactly the next gen roadster
that Elon Musk is coming out with in a few years.
This is a monumental car because without this car
coming out, you wouldn't have the Model X
that we have over here, you wouldn't have the Model S,
you wouldn't even have the Model 3.
This is what funded and paved the way for Tesla
to learn all that they could about how to do electric cars.
We're gonna test this thing out, see how it works,
see the quirks with it, see the awesome things with it
and then hopefully once we get the next gen roadster,
the free one that we got because of you guys,
thank you so much, we will test it this one
versus that one.
First generation versus next generation.
For now I wanna take it on my first drive.
I've never even driven one of these before
and I wanna go surprise the family and see
what they think about it so here we go, baby,
roadster time.
Whoa, it's so low to the ground.
Whoa!
It's quick, it is quick.
I'm gonna step on it again.
(laughing)
Okay, that's fun.
Whoa!
This is so fun.
They talk about the Tesla smile and how excited
you get when you first accelerate but
a Tesla that's a convertible that you can feel
the road 'cause you're so low to it.
This is a whole new level of fun with the Tesla.
So hard to get out, I'm so tall.
Are you ready to see the roadster?
- What, it's here?
- [Daniel] It's here.
- Now?
Tesla's coming out to.
- Oh wow.
- It's so small.
- I could sit on this.
- It's so tiny.
Oh my gosh, it doesn't even look real.
What on earth?
Here London, it looks like it's the perfect
size car for you.
- It's like a Barbie car.
- It is like a Barbie car.
(laughing)
- [Daniel] Did you make it in?
- Oh my gosh that is so, I love the seats though.
- [Daniel] The seats are super cool,
the color on them are great.
- It's beautiful.
- [Daniel] What do you think, Lincoln?
- It's really small, I love the color,
that's really good.
- Daddy, can I go on a ride?
- Wow.
- [Daniel] She looks cozy down in there, look at London.
- Can I go on a ride?
- Yeah, I can give you guys rides.
Pretty cool, right?
- It really does seem like it should be like
this huge engine sound but there's nothing happening.
- [Daniel] It's crazy.
- We're sitting so close.
- I know, it's so close together.
There's no room for anything.
If you have luggage, forget about it.
There's really not even much of a trunk in here
in the front or the back.
- We normally don't sit this close together ever.
I mean it's not as smooth as like our Tesla's,
the newer ones but it's still smooth like
it doesn't feel like an old car, oh my gosh,
honey, I feel so dangerous right now.
If we both died, the kids, the kids,
honey, seriously, I don't even have my seatbelt on.
- You shoulda put your seatbelt on.
- I thought we were just going in the neighborhood.
Honey, seriously, seriously,
This is super dangerous.
Nobody's even at home with them.
Dan.
- Feels scarier because you're closer to the ground.
- [Leslie] Well.
- And because it's a car that's a convertible.
- Yeah.
- We're only going 43 miles an hour.
- Really?
- Yes.
(smooth music)
(laughing)
- I'm really close to the ground but
it's super hard to get out of.
- [Daniel] You can do it, hon.
- This is like I feel like a grandma.
- So we can't run this thing totally out today
because we don't even have the charging cable.
The guy that we bought it from, he forgot to put it in there
and so he shipped it but it doesn't get here
till tomorrow and the weird thing about the batteries
in this is that if you run them down to zero,
it'll take less than a day and they will be dead
like not just dead like they're out of energy,
they're dead, you can never recharge them again
and it cost you around 17,000 dollars to redo
the battery pack.
So you have to be really careful,
you can't just park it in your garage
and let it sit there forever.
In about 30 days of it just sitting there
not being charged, all of the juice will run out
from the phantom drain so it's definitely
a more, more work than an X, S or 3 because it's
not as smart, uses a different battery technology but.
- Those buttons are pretty cool.
- The buttons are cool.
- Yeah.
Still fast, it feels cool because it has
the, 'cause it.
- You hear that noise?
- Yeah.
Oh, it's cold.
That's so cool though.
I love how it doesn't have a top on it.
- Yeah, convertible baby!
- It's so cool.
- It's gonna feel so good when it's warm
in the summertime.
- Oh, look at that, there's the ground.
- [Daniel] It's so close, right?
- There's the ground!
- [Daniel] I know!
- It's like I'm laying down on the ground.
- [Daniel] Yeah.
- I'm laying down and then we're driving in this.
- [Daniel] We're just sitting on the ground.
- It's hard to get up.
- [Daniel] Well the other Tesla's,
they all have the battery pack underneath the car.
This one, this is it.
- Yeah you can definitely tell it's back there.
(laughing)
- [Daniel] What are you laughing at?
You just slipped into the car?
- Oh my gosh, I can touch the ground.
- [Daniel] You can touch the ground.
- Ah!
K, so my one concern is what if the bottom of this
falls off and then you just like are on the ground.
- That wouldn't be good.
I wouldn't recommend doing that, Claire.
Claire attempting to get out of the car.
Just get out, Claire, you can do it.
You can do it!
- Let's do this.
- [Daniel] Put your feet in first, it's a good strategy.
- Yeah.
- You made it!
He barely fits.
This is what it looks like with two dudes
that are six feet tall or taller are in a Tesla Roadster.
- Whoa!
- It's pretty quick.
- It's like Back to the Future.
Wow.
That is fast.
- Actually I'm surprised.
I don't feel as crammed in here as I thought
with both of us in here.
- No, no this isn't bad.
- The real question was, how am I gonna fit it in my garage
because we don't have very much garage space
but it fits because it's so stinking tiny,
check this out.
We've got all this space.
One car, two car and then this is where
we'll put our other one.
Still need to get rid of these from
our storage locker video.
But yeah, no big deal at all.
There's the first impressions of the family,
I don't think you enjoyed it as much as I did
because that was a blast.
So I'm ready to really, really test it out,
race it against the Model X, race it against the Model 3,
taking it to CES in a couple weeks, showing it to
some of my YouTuber friends so a road trip in this thing
without a super charging network,
that should be interesting to so anyway,
thanks for watching.