I've noticed from time to time that Roadsters show up with *absurdly* low mileage. I sometimes wonder how many people took delivery of a brand new Roadster and then immediately put it into long-term storage as an investment? Or maybe, they took it for a few brief spins first, before packing it away? (And those that are appearing on the market now are the ones for which this strategy failed, assuming it was about money, because they most definitely aren't getting the sticker price back. Someday, someday...)
Since I got mine in February, I've put 3,827 miles on it. So... I'm not running it into the ground, I'm not running the wheels off it, but I am most definitely running it. And it has been wonderful. I've learned to add "Tesla time" to my schedule because so many people (many have never seen any kind of electric car!) ask questions about it, and I love answering them.
We can look ahead a few years into the future when electric cars are going mainstream, and it's no longer such a novelty. We can look forward to a new generation of electric sports cars from Tesla (and competitors) that will make my Roadster 2.5 seem quaint. But that's the future. This is the Roadster's time. This is only my philosophy, but it seems to me like a collector car should be one with a place in history. Forty or fifty years from now, will a collector prefer a Roadster that wowed people back in the day, or will they prefer one that *could* have wowed people if it hadn't been bundled up in storage, like a fly preserved in amber? (Knowing collector mentality, probably safe to assume the latter. . . but that doesn't mean I like it.)
Since I got mine in February, I've put 3,827 miles on it. So... I'm not running it into the ground, I'm not running the wheels off it, but I am most definitely running it. And it has been wonderful. I've learned to add "Tesla time" to my schedule because so many people (many have never seen any kind of electric car!) ask questions about it, and I love answering them.
We can look ahead a few years into the future when electric cars are going mainstream, and it's no longer such a novelty. We can look forward to a new generation of electric sports cars from Tesla (and competitors) that will make my Roadster 2.5 seem quaint. But that's the future. This is the Roadster's time. This is only my philosophy, but it seems to me like a collector car should be one with a place in history. Forty or fifty years from now, will a collector prefer a Roadster that wowed people back in the day, or will they prefer one that *could* have wowed people if it hadn't been bundled up in storage, like a fly preserved in amber? (Knowing collector mentality, probably safe to assume the latter. . . but that doesn't mean I like it.)
