Telsa Roadster to come back in 2014, 3-Series fighter inside the works

Did not have enough time to count 10 million pennies before the unique Tesla Roadster went out of production ? Well you’re in luck, because there will be a successor. Space cadet and entrepreneur extraordinaire, Elon Musk, confirmed to Autocar that a brand new Roadster would return in 2014. Unlike its Lotus-based predecessor, the redux will apparently be in line with Tesla’s third-generation platform, which the automag muses is often built on a”shortened version of … the Model S.” Musk also noted that the platform would be more “mass-market,” giving rise to more pedestrian cars “like BMW’s 3 Series” — his words, not ours. With the Model S sedan on its way, and the Model X after that, the corporate certainly has its work cut out for it. But, if either are as delightful as prior Teslas , that’ll be reason to cheer.