- The original Tesla Roadster is the first car Tesla ever made.
- The first 100 Roadsters built were part of the limited-edition “Signature One Hundred” series.
- No. 38 just sold for $182,000 on car auction website Bring a Trailer.
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There’s no doubt Tesla is a big deal, and perhaps one of your regrets is not getting in on its story (read: stock price) 10 years ago. As a consolation prize, a buyer just took home one of the earliest pieces of the carmaker’s saga.
Way back in the land of 2008, Tesla was a little-known electric carmaker whose first production car was the Roadster, an all-electric sports car based on the Lotus Elise. The first 100 of those Roadsters were sold as limited-edition “Signature One Hundred” models.
This Radiant Red example is No. 38 of those original 100 and was for sale on car auction website Bring a Trailer. It just sold for $182,000 at the auction’s close on Friday, which is nearly double what its original owner paid for it new.
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