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Revised Tesla Roadster v1.5 Is Released, Still Doesn’t Mean Your Pathetic Ass Can Afford One

Well technically, the car itself didn’t receive the upgrade, but rather the automatic gearbox. Highly anticipated by the handful of people who can afford one [whom mostly work in the tech department], the Powertrain 1.5 delivers 30% more torque and 10% more range to the Tesla Roadster’s Borg-Warner transmission. Helping you make that Dungeons and Dragons tournament on time, the power boost kicks the Tesla Roadster’s acceleration rate into warp speed, zooming from 0 to 60 mph in just 4.0 seconds. The greenest, most impressive part? The all-electric Tesla Roadster still averages 244 miles off a single charge.

Since production began last March, 27 Roadsters have been delivered to buyers, all presumably with the Roadster’s original Powertrain 1.0 transmission. Tesla will upgrade those owners to the Powertrain 1.5 for free, and now that initial kinks in the transmission dynamics have been ironed out, expects production output/consumer demand to more than double. “Now that we have a final powertrain design, in a matter of months there will be hundreds of Tesla Roadsters across the country,” CEO Ze’ev Drori told Autopia, “We’re heralding nothing less than a new era of the automobile.”

[News Source: Autopia, Wired Blog]

2009 Nissan GT-R Picture Gallery

You asked for more pictures of 2009 Nissan GT-R, so here they are. More pictures that you can shake a bloody stick at. The old GT-R Skyline, the new 2009 Nissan GT-R, the customizable multifuction display integrated into the dash, the start button, the Nismo Super GT-R, the innards, the outtards (is that a word?), the VR38DETT engine, everything. We have pictures of every aspect of the GT-R. We even have videos.

So sit back and enjoy, you’ve found what you were looking for:

As soon as they come out, they get smashed up. Fast cars go fast. Remember that, people.

A nice display of half the innards. Good stuff.

another Half car.

Incoming

GT-R Speedometer

The Start Button on the GT-R

GT-R tail light

The Nissan GT-R Pace Car

The Nismo GT-R GT500 car

2009 Nissan GT-R VR38DETT engine

The GT-R’s customizable multifuction display

TopGear’s Jeremy Clarkson reviews the Nissan GTR at Fuji Speedway in Japan:

RideLust Salutes The Auto Show Babe

It’s almost auto show season, and in celebration we’d like to take this time to honor one of the greatest accessories ever invented for the modern automobile: the Auto Show Girl. From Paris to Tokyo to Detroit, the girls of the auto show are undeniably hot and definitely deserve a salute for standing for hours at a time in 4 inch heels, smiling incessantly in the face of open-mouthed guys fumbling for their camera phones.

So here’s to you ladies [especially to the woman in the 4th picture down after the jump whom our sources indicate stumbled across this photo from an event she worked and was surprised to find that it had been filed by the event sponsor under "dumb blonde and red Ferrari". Although we have no idea who she is, we're almost positive she'd like to instruct whoever tagged the photo to "Suck it hard, jackass," -ahem- or something to that effect...].

And to you, RideLust readership, you’re welcome in advance.