Elon Musk’s long-delayed hypercar, the Tesla Roadster, is finally here, with rocket thrusters, a 0-60mph time of 0.81 seconds and a party trick that involves jumping over a Tesla Semi. Elon Musk has been promising a flying Roadster for years. On Thursday night, at SpaceX’s rocket test facility in Texas, he rolled one out. After its first stunt, even he sounded surprised saying: “Well, it worked.” On Thursday night, he rolled one out at SpaceX’s Rocket Development and Test Center in McGregor, Texas. The 4,000-acre site set the tone, with a Raptor rocket engine static fire as the warm-up act.

The first demo had the Roadster drive up a giant…

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