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by ykl 3141 days ago
> It's also insane to announce this car with what boils down to a bunch of CGI!

They had multiple real Roadsters at the announcements. You can see a red one in the main event video, and there are pictures of a silver one on Twitter.

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Yeah, it's just so odd that their website has the ultra fake video to demonstrate the 1.9 second 0-60 time!
That's because the actual ones can't make that time.
They absolutely seem to, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXWfL-1ieuE for example...
Absolutely nothing happens until the very end: https://youtu.be/aXWfL-1ieuE?t=3369