I test-drove a Tesla Roadster one weekday because, like many moneyed residents of the city, the designated showroom car goes to the Hamptons on summer weekends — for, ahem, promotional purposes, I was told (511 West 25th Street; M.S.R.P. from $109,000).
Mercedes-Benz showed two roadsters, one large and one small, and Chrysler, its sibling brand, rolled out the 300 Hemi C, which seeks to recapture the excitement created by Chrysler's luxurious high-performance 300-Series cars of the 1950's and 1960's.
(In one version of the roadster, it did not).
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"Later, in my Honda Civic roadster, on one of the winding roads of that dreamy and embowered neighborhood, I passed an older fellow striding along with a small barbell in each hand.
For now, if you plug your Roadster into one of Tesla's seventy-ampere wall boxes (which the company will install in your garage for three thousand dollars), it takes nearly four hours to recharge the car completely.
In Australia, he sought out one of the early roadster-utes.
BEYOND REPAIR The Mechanic's Guide to British Roadsters, Step One: Get a Pint Glass British cars are, unfortunately, the sum of their parts.
Rather than relying on an array of valves, camshafts, timing belts, and pistons to regulate the transfer of energy as the car shifts gears, the Roadster's one-speed power train uses electronics and software to optimize torque.
