Well played, I love comments with real data. i do agree that the Silverado is embarrassingly ugly.

I imagine it varies. Generally the rule is that police do not enforce on private property - but if you have more than X acres of property then you can opt-in to having police enforcement. King of Prussia mall is the one example in Eastern PA where the landlord has done that, police can enforce on the mall’s property.

Seriously - if you are paying attention here, there are a lot of clues for what the widebody Z06 version of the C8 will look like, if you look past the ‘racecar-only’ features (there won’t be a rear underbody diffuser like that, the wheels will be a bit bigger, ...)

And here is the picture from the China C7.R last year

Yeah the white/blue is nice, but none of those vettes you picture are the factory Corvette racing team. This scheme is actually very consistent with their history:

Yup, I couldn’t understand what he was talking about either. I guess he is mad they dropped the suicide doors?  

(not a lawyer) but it seems like the actual claim here should be for negligence, letting someone with insufficient skill / training drive a massively overpowered / undersafe car, not the lack of the (non-manadatory) safety equipment.

There are 18 variants of the Panamera now. There are 2 of the Taycan at launch. I’d say wait a few years and you’ll probably have a P100D fighter.

Yeah, I’m afraid you missed the whole point of this article.

Will the recording include turbo spool and blowoff noises?

While it is textbook RICE, I’m having trouble hatin’ on this, it doesn’t look that bad or that cheap.

They should, it would be awesome*. Telsa should take a page from Porsche’s playbook and have some lower production, high margin cars, I’d think it would help their profitability. I just configured a Model S performance, and only could find about $8K (holding aside the $6K full autonomous) of options on a 99K base…

I do like Captain Disillusion.  My skills stop at still photography, video is too hard for me.

Take a deep breath. Go back to the beginning. The whole f’ing point of the original article was that you shouldn’t just ‘wing it’ for a Nurburgring track record.

Okay that’s a bit of a false equivalency.  It’s one thing to have some camouflage on the pre-production version of the production car, vs. a ‘prototype’ that is unlikely to ever be sold to the public in that form.  

I don’t disagree. Though I’m sure the version Porsche ran is exactly the version they will sell.  I’d love to see Telsa actually sell that widebody, fat tired, wicker billed version to the public.[though I’m still against them stripping the interior.  ]

While I agree with your point based on the picture in the article, the odds that the photo in the article was exposed and white balanced correctly and therefore actually represents what the car looks like in real life.... just about zero.

Yeah, this is what I’m trying to understand, is it a full lap or just BTG. Is it BTG timing, somehow projected up to a full lap?

I think the point is that production car lap records are set with production cars using the available production car parts.

His argument for “take the time and do it right” is a load of BS.