The wait for Tesla’s most hyped car ever might finally be nearing its end. Elon Musk confirmed on X that the next-generation Tesla Roadster will be unveiled “hopefully next month,” with a “late April” window now officially on the table.
Musk’s exact words: “New Roadster unveil hopefully next month. It will be a banger next-level.” Coming from the CEO of a public company who once scheduled the reveal for April 1 and admitted it gave him “deniability because I can say I was just kidding,” this latest message is being taken as a more genuine signal.
A long time coming
The second-generation Roadster was first teased back in 2017, with initial deliveries promised for 2020, a deadline that came and went without a single car. Since then, the program has seen repeated pauses, management changes, and shifting timelines. Work on the car was largely halted after Tesla’s April 2024 layoffs, only picking back up again last summer with new engineering hires brought on for aerodynamic prototype development.
Despite the delays, Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen has remained publicly confident, saying in late 2025 that the wait “will be worth it” and promising deliveries “definitely within two years” of the reveal.
What the new Roadster is claimed to do
If Tesla’s spec sheet holds up, this car will be in a class of its own. Claimed figures include:
- 0–60 mph in under 1 second (with the optional SpaceX thruster package)
- Top speed of 250+ mph
- 620-mile (1,000 km) range
- 10,000 Nm of peak torque at the wheels
- Optional cold-gas SpaceX thrusters for braking, cornering, and potentially brief hover
Musk has described it as “the best of the last of the human-driven cars”, a deliberate nod to Tesla’s autonomous future.
The production version reveal is expected to look noticeably different from the original 2017 prototype. Musk himself told shareholders it will be “very different than what we’ve shown previously.” After the unveil, production is expected to begin roughly 12–18 months later, which puts realistic delivery timelines somewhere between Q2 and Q4 2027.
Pricing from Tesla’s last public listing stood at $200,000 base and $250,000 for the Founders Edition (limited to 1,000 units), though those figures have since been removed from the Tesla website. Reservation holders who put down $50,000 deposits back in 2017, now affectionately called Tesla’s “long-suffering deposit-holders” by Musk himself, are watching April very closely.
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