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内容总结：

特斯拉新款Roadster跑车近日在发布会上以“倒挂行驶+火箭推进器落地”的特技高调亮相，并宣布目标于2028年投产，预订“Thrust”推力器版本需支付25万美元。然而，这款车此前已多次跳票，外界对其能否如期量产普遍存疑。

初代Roadster于2008年小批量投产，续航达244英里，是特斯拉早期的里程碑产品。重新设计的第二代Roadster最早于2017年11月发布，马斯克称其为“对燃油车的硬核打击”，原定2020年上市，并承诺推出配备约10个小型火箭推进器的“SpaceX”套件。但此后交付时间一再推迟：2020年改口为一年至一年半内投产，2021年初推迟至2022年，年底又滑至2023年，2023年和2024年再度延期。期间特斯拉持续接受5万至25万美元的预订定金，却始终未能交车，引发预订者不满，YouTube博主MKBHD和OpenAI首席执行官奥特曼等知名人士均曾公开抱怨。

报道指出，马斯克近年来个人形象与政治立场剧烈转变，其领导“政府效率部”期间推行大幅削减开支的政策引发争议，相关声誉损害波及特斯拉，导致全球多地抗议。2025年5月马斯克退出该部门时，Roadster恐怕并非其优先事项。今年4月特斯拉重申将推出Roadster时，许多业内人士早已不抱希望，这款长期“难产”的跑车甚至成了流行文化中的笑柄。

报道最后提醒，一场没有确定上市日期的发布会算不上真正的发布。即便此次特技表演令人印象深刻，特斯拉仍需说服潜在客户：交定金预订Roadster，比用“无聊公司”喷火器烧掉一堆钞票更值得。

中文翻译：

特斯拉Roadster预计将于2028年投产，但别抱太大希望

我在破碎梦想大道上倒着开车。

周四，特斯拉凭借一个非常酷炫的特技动作霸占了头条新闻。在10月15日的活动上宣布重新设计的Roadster时，这家电动车公司往里面加了些喷气燃料。在一条C形坡道上驾驶车辆冲上 suction rig 直至倒转后，Roadster借助火箭推进器悬浮落地。我们还了解到，这款新跑车的目标量产窗口是2028年，预订配备冷气推进器的“Thrust”配置版本需要支付25万美元。“我们2028年投产，”马斯克在活动上说，“说真的，这次是真的。”

如果你感到似曾相识，别担心——你神志完全清醒。这已经不是特斯拉第一次宣布第二代Roadster了，而公司也没有特意提醒大家这个重新宣布的版本之前已经讲过。尽管如此，很多人心中的疑问是：这是否又是特斯拉那款命运多舛的第二代跑车的又一次“纸上发布”？

第一代Roadster是特斯拉早期的一个里程碑。该车于2008年发布，产量极为有限，最初由特斯拉创始人之一马丁·艾伯哈德构思，当时现任CEO埃隆·马斯克还没有把艾伯哈德和他的合伙人马克·塔彭宁从公司买断。正是Roadster的构想最初在2004年吸引了马斯克关注这家初创企业，并促使他对公司进行了初始投资。此后他主导了这款跑车的生产。它被塞进路特斯Elise的底盘里，在当时，一辆电池驱动的车单次充电能跑244英里，确实令人印象深刻。

重新设计的Roadster最早于2017年11月亮相，号称将是特斯拉在电动车制造领域创新的巅峰。马斯克称其为“对燃油车的硬核击倒”。目标发布时间为2020年，它与特斯拉Semi一同亮相，后者是一辆8级电动半挂卡车，同样在生产上陷入了停滞。2018年2月，马斯克承诺推出一个“SpaceX”套件，“将在车周围无缝布置约10个小型火箭推进器”，并将“大幅提升加速、最高速度、制动和过弯性能”。

然后延期开始了。特斯拉仍在接受从5万美元到25万美元不等的预订定金，最初设定的2020年量产窗口来了又走了。在2020年7月特斯拉的一次财报电话会上，马斯克表示生产将在未来一年到18个月内开始。当时全球正深陷公共卫生危机，延期并不算最令人震惊的事。讽刺的是，马斯克同年在接受乔·罗根采访时表示，他想先造Cybertruck——在经历了这款车自身多年的延期之后，这一目标终于实现。

但在最初延期一年半之后，Roadster依然不见踪影。马斯克在2021年初将这款车推迟到2022年，但到那年年底，这一预测又滑到了2023年。这位CEO在2023年和2024年又宣布了进一步的延期。

至少可以说，这些年对马斯克和特斯拉而言是离奇的。这位CEO经历了一场公开转变，从公共环保主义者变成了极右翼政治造王者，这段时期的高潮是他执掌总统唐纳德·特朗普新成立的政府效率部，对联邦政府大刀阔斧地裁撤。到2025年7月，《柳叶刀》发表了一项研究，预测这些削减可能导致到2030年超过1400万人死亡。马斯克对这些数字提出异议，但他在政府任职期间造成的声誉损害波及了特斯拉，导致全球范围内针对该公司的广泛抗议。2025年5月，马斯克在药物滥用和家庭闹剧的指控缠身中从DOGE卸任，Roadster恐怕并不在这位亿万富翁优先事项清单的前列。

到今年4月特斯拉再次承诺发布Roadster时，许多人已经放弃了对这款跑车能上市的希望。特斯拉未能交付这款车早已成为流行文化中的笑料，甚至特斯拉车主也不例外——YouTube博主Marques Brownlee曾在自己的MKBHD频道多次采访马斯克，他在2025年9月的Waveform播客中担忧地说：“特斯拉拿着我的5万块钱已经八年了，什么都没做。”另一位公开抱怨Roadster预订的高知名度人物是马斯克昔日的商业伙伴、如今的竞争对手OpenAI的萨姆·奥尔特曼。

值得注意的是，一场没有确定发布日期的发布活动算不上什么发布。即便在特斯拉令人印象深刻的十月活动之后，马斯克和他的公司仍需说服潜在客户：为Roadster支付定金，比用Boring公司的喷火器烧掉一堆钱更值得投资。

英文来源：

The Tesla Roadster should go into production in 2028, but don't get your hopes up
I drive upside down on the boulevard of broken dreams.
Tesla dominated the headlines on Thursday thanks to a very cool stunt. In announcing the redesigned Roadster at its October 15 event, the electric car company put some jet fuel in the mix. After driving up a C-shaped ramp on a suction rig until it was upside-down, the Roadster floated to the ground on rocket boosters. We also learned that the new sports car is targeting a 2028 production window and that it will cost $250,000 to reserve the "Thrust" trim level with cold-gas thrusters. "We enter production in 2028," Musk said during the event. "Actually, for real."
If you're feeling a bit of deja vu, don't worry — you're firmly within your faculties. This is not the first time Tesla has announced the second-generation Roadster, and the company hasn't exactly drawn attention to that fact with this re-announced version. Still, the question on many minds is whether this is another paper launch for Tesla's embattled second-gen sports car.
The first Roadster was a milestone for Tesla in its early days. Released in 2008 and produced in very limited numbers, the car was ideated by one of Tesla's original founders, Martin Eberhard, before current CEO Elon Musk had bought Eberhard and his partner, Marc Tarpenning, out of the company. It was the idea of the Roadster which initially drew Musk to the fledgling startup in 2004 and prompted his initial investment in the company. He would go on to oversee the production of that sports car. Crammed inside the chassis of a Lotus Elise, it was truly impressive at the time to see a battery-powered vehicle able to reach 244 miles on a charge.
The redesigned Roadster was first unveiled in November 2017, promising to be the apex of Tesla's innovations in electric vehicle manufacturing. Musk called it "a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars." Targeted for a 2020 release, it was shown off alongside the Tesla Semi, a Class 8 electric semitruck which also stalled in production. In Feburary 2018, Musk promised a "SpaceX" package that would "include ~10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around the car" and would "dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking and cornering."
Then the delays began. With Tesla still accepting deposits starting at $50,000 and extending up to $250,000, the initial 2020 production window came and went. In a July 2020 earnings call for Tesla, Musk said production would begin within the following year to 18 months. With the globe engulfed in a public health crisis, the delay wasn't the most shocking of developments. Ironically, Musk noted in an interview with Joe Rogan that same year that he wanted to build the Cybertruck first — a mission accomplished after years of that vehicle's own delays.
But a year and a half after the initial delay, there was no Roadster in sight. Musk delayed the car to 2022 in early 2021, but by the end of the year, that projection had slipped to 2023. The CEO announced further delays in 2023 and 2024.
And those years have been bizarre for Musk and Tesla, to say the least. The CEO has undergone a public transformation from public environmentalist to far-right political kingmaker, a period which culminated in a slash-and-burn of the Federal government as he headed up president Donald Trump's newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. By July 2025, The Lancet had published a study projecting the cuts could lead to more than 14 million deaths by 2030. Musk has disputed those numbers, but the reputational damage his stint in government caused spilled over to Tesla, leading to widespread global protests against the company. As Musk stepped down from DOGE in May 2025, dogged by allegations of substance abuse and family drama, the Roadster may not have been near the top of the billionaire's priority list.
By the time Tesla recommitted to releasing the Roadster this past April, many had given up hope that the sports car would ever make it to market. Tesla's failure to deliver the vehicle had long ago become pop-cultural joke fodder, and even Tesla owners such as YouTuber Marques Brownlee, who had interviewed Musk multiple times on his MKBHD channel, fretted on his Waveform podcast in September 2025, "Tesla has been sitting with my 50 grand for eight years and hasn't done anything with it." Another high-profile figure to complain about their Roadster reservations included Musk's erstwhile business partner and current rival Sam Altman of OpenAI.
It's worth noting that a launch event without a firm launch date isn't much of a launch. Even after Tesla's impressive October event, Musk and company will need to convince potential customers that putting down a deposit for the Roadster is a better investment than burning a pile of money with a Boring Company flamethrower.