Dude, first of all - chillax. I've got no problem trying to explain my perspective, but if you want to converse - lets be civil. Even a modern W05 without the fuel limit and a more aggressive tune could probably beat this thing. But this is still a pr-stunt. It's like Honda is one of those commenters that hits the…

That rear "rudder" would be useless within the bounds of the formula in the settings of the actual sport. It's a special car that ran a race with no one else. It's not an F1 car, but that's just one man's opinion. I certainly respect the opinions of those who differ, but it doesn't change my mind.

The term fastest is certainly relative, but this car is completely irrelevant so I stand by my consternation... just a difference of opinion. Titling this "This Honda F1 car set the fastest speed record..." or something else would've been fine by me. This car is outside the bounds of the formula, IMHO.

Kudos for mentioning Bimmer and not using a picture of the i8.

"There are no rules in love and war and wasting time."

Not in a straight line.

No, it isnt. Itd be like running a One:1 on the salt flats with a bunch of bespoke parts that customers dont have access to and saying it's "the fastest out-right" road car. Which would be equivalent horse-shit. Kind of like running a hybrid civic in similar spec and acting as if it matters or somehow makes that car…

Does raph even f1?

O.K, now you guys are just flat-out lying to people. That's pretty dis-respectful for a PR-stunt regurgitation. Taking a car off-track doesn't give it the title of "Fastest out-right." The cars from the late-80's early 90's would WALK on this thing if you gave them the same aero package as this stunt-car.

SERIOUSLY! Put that fucker in Quali-spec and cut it loose with the same drag-less aero on the PR stunt-car that created this article's gimmicky and aggravating title.

This only happened because of Chris Harris' sausage joke!

... and they did a lot of just rummaging through Mercedes' parts bins.

Reminds me of the Chrysler corporation's marketing strategy.

It was Stuggart's ego as much as it was the economies. Chrysler whipped the SLR McLaren on a lesser budget and with less development time. Dr. Z. was not impressed.

Bob Lutz's Lamborghini design staff worked on an F1 engine for McLaren and Aytron Senna and also cylinder heads for half the cars in your local scrap yard (not to mention the original Viper engine, which is basically still in production.)

This almost makes up for the i8/Countach article...

Get these doors on the car, figure out how to make the windows open without looking stupid and then get it through crash-testing. Then I'll unzip my pants like Jalopnik writer in revery over this thing...

Thank you, sir.

My thoughts exactly: http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/the-i8-is-so-i…