Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Your Roadster Pre-Order Will Ever Be Delivered

Tesla has told customers who placed pre-orders for its long-awaited Roadster that it cannot guarantee whether — or when — the car will ever reach them. The admission is buried in the pre-order agreement attached to the reservation, and it effectively turns what many buyers treated as a place in line into something closer to an open-ended expression of interest.

The wording matters because Roadster reservations have been open for years, with buyers putting down deposits long before any confirmed production plan. Under the terms described, Tesla is not committing to a delivery window, and it is not promising that a car will be built at all. In practice, that leaves reservation holders with little more than a queue position and no enforceable deadline.

The Roadster was conceived as a halo model — a low-volume electric performance car sitting well above anything Tesla currently sells, including the Model S Plaid. In the segment it targets, it would rub shoulders with other electric hypercars and ultra-limited