Yeah, provide me with those quotes and outside links
As near as I know, right now Musk is looking at
1) private Mars rovers
(And I've posted about them multiple times - If I make it through,
I'm pretty sure where he'll have to get his autonomous artificially
intelligent robotic vision system for them. But that would certainly be
no earlier than say 5 or 6 years from now. Plenty of time for you Mars
enthusiasts to get your credit cards ready.)
2) Dragon has a lunar return rated heat shield in one variant.
Now if you want to try to turn that in to manned flight to Mars,
well, go on ahead