Tesla Roadster gets three versions, Rocket edition supports flight by invite only

The tiering here is the story: by restricting pre-orders in China to the Performance version while the Rocket edition stays invite-only and the Thrust version is track-only, Tesla is segmenting the Roadster into an accessible order book and a gated halo product. That matters for how demand signals from China — the only market with a stated deposit and channel — get read against the limited, non-orderable variants. Whether the invitation model and the track-only designation stay fixed, or migrate toward broader availability, is the open question.