Tesla Roadster Did a Barrel Roll — and Got a 2028 Date
By TechPulse USA Staff Nine years, five-figure deposits, and roughly half a dozen broken promises later, Elon Musk finally did what he said he would do: he made a Tesla fly. For about five seconds. Upside down. Over a ramp in Texas. And then came the punchline nobody in that crowd paid $50,000 to hear — you still can't buy one until 2028. The reveal, livestreamed from SpaceX's rocket test facility in McGregor, Texas on Thursday night, was classic Musk: a genuine engineering feat by a man whose relationship with delivery dates remains purely decorative. The Roadster drove up a wall, clung to the ceiling, let go, flipped, and landed. Whether any of it ends up street-legal — or ever leaves Texas — is a question Tesla conspicuously declined to answer. File photo: the red Roadster prototype Tesla unveiled in November 2017. The car revealed on Oct 15, 2026 has a sharply restyled design. Photo: via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). A car drove on the ceiling. Then it let go T...