Is Schwarzenegger Trying To Return His Electric Tesla Roadster?
Filed under: cars-houses, transport — Michael d'Estries @ 2:58 pm
March 25th 2009
Gawker is whispering that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been quietly attempting to return his all-electric Tesla Roadster for several months now. Apparently, the company has been keeping the request all hush-hush for fears that it might throw dark clouds of publicity over its troubled financial situation. Obviously, this has got to be embarrassing for Schwarzenegger as well — the guy has included Tesla’s vision and product as examples of needed green tech in several of his speeches. So why is he so unhappy? From the article,
“Built on a Lotus Elise body, the car is not easy to get in and out of, especially for someone with the former bodybuilder’s robust frame. “He’s more of a Hummer guy,” one tipster tells us.”
While the Hummer is certainly a Schwarzenegger favorite, it’s not his current day-to-day vehicle of choice. That would be the 2009 Dodge Challenger Hemi — of which the Governor was spotted driving once again this past Monday. In fact, we can’t ever remember seeing Arnold in his Tesla in public; a shame considering the Challenger gets a depressing 13MPG and does nothing to add to his green cred.
Alas, if Tesla doesn’t take the car back, there’s always Craig’s List.
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Funny – Arnie always said the car was for his wife. So can she not fit in it?
Does Arnie really need the 100k that badly?
Total BS
Sorry but that “tipster” is an idiot. Having (sadly) been Ahnold’s neighbor for 9 long years in los angeles (it wasn’t any picnic trust me) I can say that he drives tons of tiny low riding gas sucking cars.
Why just look at the “low ride’ (I believe the cam man says) that he was just driving yesterday on TMZ
http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/24/governator-flirting-amidst-disaster/
So I haven’t been in a Tesla (yet) is it smaller than this?
Arnold doesn’t give a shit about the environment by the way.
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our governor still with muscle car image I thing is over rated and he is a supporter for our clean env??? Politics and hypocrits are here in LA
Tesla vehicle is in the LA la LA WORLD, is so prix over and will see ……
This rumor is bogus. The Governer has out incentive-ized every state in the country to make sure Tesla builds their next car in California (now said to be in Long Beach)
Also last Thursday Arnold attended the premiere of Tesla
s all electric sedan the “Model S” with some other green clebs like RHCP singer Anthony Kiedis Chris Paine, and Bill Nye
Some links:
http://www.blogowogo.com/blog_article.php?aid=2047066&t=12
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tesla%20model%20s&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=Tesla+model+s+arnold
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla27-2009mar27,0,472402.story
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/tesla-selling-cars-or-california
More on the Model S event.
Attending: Sam Harris, Talulah Riley.
New pix of Arnold there:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3637/3397410183_94f05fa547_o.jpghttp://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq324/vfxshots/CIMG5248.jpg?t=1238430962