NEW TESLA ROADSTER - It Can Fly!!! (SpaceX Technology)

Summary
Elon Musk and Tesla engineering leads present the next-generation Tesla Roadster at a live demonstration event. The presentation features dramatic stunt displays including driving inverted along an over-vertical curved ramp, using cold-gas thrusters to hover and execute mid-air aerobatics over parked Tesla vehicles, and demonstrating extreme straight-line acceleration.

What is shown

• [00:03 - 00:33] The Roadster climbs an over-vertical curved wall, reaching pitch angles beyond 90° up to 170° while telemetry displays downforce climbing past 4,700 kg.
• [00:36 - 00:49] The vehicle launches off an elevated ramp, using cold-gas thrusters firing downward to stabilize its airborne trajectory and cushion the landing.
• [01:21 - 02:34] Elon Musk and engineers speak on stage, explaining the vehicle’s bottom-mounted fan suction downforce system and SpaceX-derived thrusters.
• [02:44 - 03:16] The Roadster jumps off an approach ramp, performs an aerial roll (“kickflip”) across a lineup of parked Tesla vehicles including a Tesla Semi, and touches down cleanly.
• [03:34 - 04:20] Walkaround of the prototype showing dihedral/butterfly door actuation, cabin interior and yoke, deployable rear wing, and exhaust nozzles for the thruster system.
• [04:21 - 04:40] A high-speed launch test showing aggressive thruster plume deployment alongside an on-screen timer clocking 0–60 mph acceleration.
• [05:12 - 05:56] Additional external and overhead angles of the ramp launch and thruster-assisted aerial stunts.

Claims & numbers

• The underbody fan suction system pulls up to 2 Gs of suction to hold the vehicle inverted (presenter claims).
• On-screen telemetry records downforce exceeding 4,700 kg during the curved wall run.
• Musk claims the downforce allows cornering so extreme that “it looks like you’re breaking physics” and that the vehicle will “crush every track record that has ever existed.”
• 0–60 mph acceleration is stated on-screen as 1 second, with Musk claiming it is “less than 1 second.”
• Musk states the vehicle will enter production in 2028 (“Actually. For real.”).

Notable quotes

• [01:08] “Flying cars are real.”
• [01:34] “To do that, we have a fan suction system on the bottom of the car that can pull up to 2 Gs in order to make the car go upside down, and then we borrowed some technology from SpaceX to do the rest.”
• [04:46] “Well, I said less than 1 second. We enter production in 2028. Actually.”

Assessment
This video captures an official Tesla staged unveiling event featuring real operational prototype hardware engineered with high-power fan downforce and SpaceX cold-gas thruster assemblies. While the dynamic demonstrations show genuine physical stunts performed live, they represent extreme developmental showcase maneuvers under carefully controlled event conditions rather than standard road-ready production configurations.

Described by gemini-3.8-flash on 2026-10-17 from the video’s audio and frames.