I work as an automotive/product industrial designer, and have had the pleasure of meeting Ian (he actually has reviewed some of my work before which is awesome). He is a great designer and a really down to earth and very friendly guy.

Awesome article.

If i had the money, and they were available, i would totallu cut up the fenders on my mustang to fit the rtr wheels on Vaughn Gittin’s car.

Ive been lucky enough to drive a good friend’s P1 a few times. Phenomenal car. Mind blowing in every way.

I owned one for 2 years. Fun car, lots of character for not much dough. Extremely flawed, but in a fun Italian charm sort of way. Autocrossed it a bunch, pretty bad chassis setup, but quicker than it looks. Lots of fun for a stock city car.

Man. That has one ugly mug.

Oh the irony that the car forum with the most douchebags is making fun of cars at sema. Dont get me wrong, that murano cc is ghastly, but the L4P guys are always rolling around during Monterey car week in nasty bodykitted supercars with stickers and oversize wheels..these are some of the cars scalding eyeballs from…

Ha i own two of the cars on this list! Oh wait maybe that means.....

You have bad taste. That is all.

Both very well done submissions from the first 3d printed car competition... And they picked this instead-

Ugh. I participated in their first design competition for the rally fighter (they came to our school with it when it was done too). Every competition since then has attracted really great designs/designers in the early stages, but they always end up picking really awful designs. Because of that, many design…

Your right about the late 2000’s paddle shift Ferrari’s feeling slow to shift. I have spent quite a few miles behind the wheel of a 430 scud (which is one of the fastest shifting f1 ferraris of that generation), and i remember hoping into a friends mp4-12(the car not the laser printer), and it really made the scud’s…

Working until the early afternoon :(

I have a more accurate diagram-

They have a pretty detailed brakedown in the different sections of this article, but no list of parts-

Not really. A good quality custom cage is $10k, quality dampers(moton triples, jrz, penske etc.) are 7-10k etc. Trust me the chassis development (this car was tuned by a couple top grand am miata drivers, and engineers with lots of race experience) is worth the extra 25k.

zero. in order from newest to oldest car brands ive owned- Ford(current),Mazda(current),Fiat,Bmw,Mitsubishi,Honda,Nissan

those proportions still look mid-engined to me...and those “essence” sketches never really show much.

Oh sweet it made it up there...miss my evo

My worst trackday experience was not too bad compared to some(ive seen plenty of cara totaled at trackdays, including a ford gt and a few ferraris), but still sucked.