May 29, 2008 Tesla Sighting!

04:05pm by Cheechoo (Cars)

Lijen and I went to the Daly City Outback Steakhouse looking to get ourselves some Angioplasty Fries (better known as Aussie Cheese Fries, or the “Worst Food in America” According to Men’s Health), because we felt that blood is flowing too freely through our arteries and we should give heart disease a fighting chance. But before we could embrace gluttony and minor heart attacks, we ran into a beautiful orange Tesla Roadster!

Literally, there are only 40-some on the roads in the whole of America. However, it was a dealer’s car (The “DLR” on the license plate), so it actually wasn’t an owner’s. It was probably some show car that some tesla employees decided to take for a spin. Luckily they shared our views on Heart Disease and decided to eat at the same establishment as us!

The current news on the Tesla is Drivetrain 1.5. They had problems with their 2-speed automatic transmission, but recently developed a single-speed transmission that both eliminates the old problem, AND ADDS TORQUE. Two great things, in my opinion. Hopefully I’ll see more and more of these beauties on the road this year.