- Forty years old seems like a good age
to have a mid-life crisis and to go buy a car.
And rather than buy some dorky Corvette,
that makes me really look like I'm having a mid-life crisis
(crowd yells and screams)
Might as well have the fastest production car in history:
(laughs)
a Tesla Roadster
(upbeat techno music)
Alright guys, it is happening.
No, this is not click bait.
I am sending money to Elon Musk and to Tesla,
it's happening.
This is Wells Fargo Bank,
apparently this is where Tesla banks.
You have to send a wire today.
I am putting my money, down for the Roadster.
If you haven't watched it a couple of days ago,
remember my video with the Roadster
where I rode in that super-fast car.
- [Instructor] Three, two, one.
(screams and yells)
- At the end of the video I was like, is it worth it.
That's debatable.
Well I thought about it through the weekend.
I got the email from Tesla,
and I can make my reservation solidified today.
That's why I decided to come here to the store.
I'm going to go in, make the wire transfer
and I'm gonna explain all the specifics
around how much the Tesla Roadster costs,
what you have to do to get in line for it,
how much should it cost me to take a test drive
to get you that footage on YouTube video.
'Cause it wasn't cheap and it wasn't free.
But first:
Let me go give the money to Elon Musk before the cut-off.
Alright I'm at the bank.
I'm doing it.
I'm actually wiring the money right now.
Not allowed to film at the bank,
so I'm not going to film the whole transaction
but it is happening.
Alright.
I just did it, we're getting the final paperwork
and we're out of here.
Alright. (laughs)
This is my receipt.
We did it, we did it.
We got the deposit, it is in.
That is a lot of money and now I have
two years, maybe three, depending on if there's any delays.
To actually earn somehow
the rest of the one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to maybe two hundred thousand dollars to get the actual car
that's just the deposit and it's sittin' there.
And yes, if you're asking Leslie did sign-off on it.
We'll see if it,
how this works out.
(rock music)
Alright, I'm at the Tesla super-charging station
and the store,
whatever they want you to call it.
You can't legally sell Teslas in the State of Utah,
so they have this kind of weird set up at the store
but it's like a service center.
It's not even a service center.
It's like a nice little place you hang out.
They got couches and waters and bathrooms and stuff
so when you charge, you can relax.
Let's talk a little bit about the event
and how it went down.
So you guys saw the craziness
that was me riding the Tesla Roadster which was insane.
(screams)
Whoa-ho-ho-ho
(dramatic orchestral music)
Ohh.
(dramatic orchestral music) It felt like
I was just like a ball of jello.
- Hey Mikey I think he likes it.
(laughs)
That's pretty much what it felt like.
This is how I even got the chance to ride in that.
After the event, you go to the after party
and at the after party, they had six or seven computers
that were lined up with employees at each one of those.
If you talk to those guys, they tell you about the Roadster,
they tell you how you can buy one.
And so, what you had to do that night,
is if you wanted to go on a ride in the Roadster,
which there weren't that many people that went on rides,
I would say maybe forty people while I was there.
You had to pay a five thousand dollar deposit.
They said was non-refundable.
Is it worth it?
Five thousand dollars for one ride that lasts two minutes
and I just sat there
and hovered my finger over the purchase button.
And finally I decided,
for some strange reason I decided it's worth it.
And I paid the money. (laughs)
Mostly, honestly it was because I figured
you guys would like to see it in the video
and if I came to the event
and had the chance to go on a ride
and I didn't do it, that's kind of a missed opportunity.
I thought maybe you guys would like it.
So here's the second portion of it.
After you pay that five thousand dollars,
you have two options to purchase the vehicle.
The first option is you can get the Founders Series.
Now the Tesla Roadster Founders Series,
they're only making a thousand of those.
Those are two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
and what you had to do is,
that night you would pay five thousand dollars.
You would get your ride.
And then what you would do is within ten days,
you had to make a wire transfer at Wells Fargo
to Tesla for the remaining
two hundred and forty five thousand dollars.
Two hundred and forty five thousand dollars.
And then remember
you don't see the car until at least 2020.
That's two hundred and fifty grand and that's just gone.
You're making no interest on it.
Nothing.
And I am guaranteed people did it.
There's people that wanted to do that.
That was something I definitely did not have the money for.
Option number two is within 10 days
you can wire the additional forty five thousand dollars,
which I just did at the Wells Fargo Bank.
So I'm in the queue.
Now I'm in line for the Full Production Series
of the Roadster.
They'll first release the one thousand Founders Series
Tesla Roadsters
and then you're in line to purchase yours.
They say the price of the Full Production
is two hundred thousand.
That's the base model.
It still goes fast, it still has a lot of options
but obviously and clearly
there's going to be some different things
that you can do to upgrade it
at that point that will take it
probably up closer to two hundred and fifty thousand.
Elon has talked about a little bit
on those options on Twitter.
Now why did I pay fifty thousand dollars?
That was a ton of money for me.
It said that between the time
that you send the wire and between the time
that you actually make the purchase order,
you can get a full refund on your actual
down payment basically on the car.
So I was thinking about it, I'm like,
okay, if I can get a full refund,
I could possibly get back my five thousand dollars
that at the event they said was non-refundable,
so I paid forty five thousand dollars
to potentially get my five thousand back.
But in reality I do not wanna cancel my reservation.
I wanna keep the Roadster.
It's 2020.
I will be turning forty years old...
in 2020. (laughs)
And so the way I look at it is:
Forty years old seems like a good age
to have a mid-life crisis
and to go buy a car.
So I don't know how I'm gonna pay
for the full two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
I don't have that money.
I know a lot of you guys are always like,
'You're so rich',
and yes, Leslie and I had very good jobs before YouTube
and that has provided us with a lot of opportunities
and yes we've made some money on the YouTube side of it.
But we don't just have two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars sitting around.
Can you imagine the vlogs
of giving people test rides in the Tesla.
You saw my reaction.
I would love to go to drivers school
before I get the car
and learn how to drive a high performance vehicle.
Maybe go do some drag racing at the drag racing strip-place
and race some people.
I'd probably crash the thing.
So maybe I shouldn't do that, but I would like to try it.
During my video I talked about Ben,
and how Ben earned his own for free.
I think Ben has fifty five or sixty referrals
since September and that qualified him
to get a 102% off of the cost of the...
Roadster.
And it's the Founders Edition that he gets.
If you guys know somebody
that's going to be buying a Tesla between now
and the end of the year,
there's a code I'm flashing it up on the screen right now.
There's a link in the description.
If they use that code,
which is my code specific to me,
then they will get free supercharging for the life
of having their Tesla.
I really don't know that I believe enough
that I could get fifty people to actually buy a Tesla.
They're super expensive cars.
So, if you know friends and family and neighbors,
show 'em our videos, if they find value in our Tesla videos,
and if it motivates them to get a Tesla.
Great, have them use my code.
So between now and 2020 I need to find a way
to earn enough money so that I can pay for the Roadster.
I'm hoping not to cancel this thing
and take the fifty thousand dollars back,
but if I have to I will between now and then.
Time to hustle it out.
Time to go in my Model X
and I'll be honest when I launch with this thing now.
This is only a 100 D.
It's not a P 100 D
but when I push the acceleration
I used to think it was super fast.
After that Roadster, it makes me feel
more like this is more like that Honda Civic
that's just driving in front of me.
(crowd yells)
Not the greatest acceleration.
See? (acceleration strains)
Yeah that was great.
That was fast and all.
Better than most gas cars
but nothing compared to the Roadster.
(yells)
Hope this is helpful to you guys.
Thanks for watching.
Let me know in the comments below what you think.
Should I get the refund on the money?
Is it a waste of money to go
and put that much into a Roadster
or should I keep it and get the Roadster?
Well let me know your thoughts.
Time for me to drive.
(energetic music)
I felt like I was just like a ball of Jello.
Jello.