{
  "id": 14854084,
  "title": "Musk's flying car: Tesla presents a sports car with rocket nozzles",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/musks-flugauto-tesla-zeigt-sportwagen-mit-raketendusen",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-16T03:04:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/musks-flugauto-tesla-zeigt-sportwagen-mit-raketenduesen/100262719.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Tesla has unveiled a sports car, the Roadster, which can travel short distances in flight thanks to rocket engines. The car, presented in Waco, Texas, was shown flying with a side roll over parked Tesla models. Production is set to start in 2028, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, but no price was given. Reservations for the \"Rocket\" version, which can fly, require a payment of 250,000 euros, while the \"Performance\" version without engines requires 50,000 euros. The car can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 0.81 seconds, and Musk claims the production model will be even faster.",
  "summary": "For years, Elon Musk has been promising a rocket car - and the Tesla Roadster now on display can fly a little thanks to cold gas nozzles. How many of them will be built remains unclear.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": "Integrating rocket thrusters into a sports car signals a shift toward extreme performance vehicles that serve as a final human-driven milestone before the company pivots fully to autonomy.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}