Came here to say this...probably could buy the thing for $500 now...would be almost cheating (but who's counting?) as a lemons racer.

This is a good thing. I swear that every recent model GM vehicle looks like a cop. Even the damn Cruz looks like a cop car.

I think the man that is smart enough to rig that kit up is probably smart enough to use crimp connectors. '-)

$30k doesn't seem that awful for this if you're just gonna track it. Probably a bit more bang for the buck in there than dropping 30k on a Caterham 7.

That made me laugh. Thank you.

I hope someone else pays for that truck's repair. I don't see that *not* costing thousands of dollars.

This is less toy than secret agent. What if...a city like London were to decide to close down a section of their roadways to be accessible by these vehicles only? Or the Loop of Chicago? They have underground access to a lot of buildings there so there's not a ton of freight traffic to be displaced on the main…

VAG is losing their ass on each Veyron they sell. Shouldn't make those either? When a big company "wastes" a shitload of money on engineering like this, it's usually because this engineering will eventually end up in millions of vehicles in the future.

This isn't even a speeding ticket. It's a parking ticket. In a really small town.

4G is a scam. It's just a marketing tool that Verizon, et al use to charge you more money. Hey! Faster data. Hey! SMALLER caps! Fuck you!

Probably because they've got a shitbag neighbor who has turned a perfectly good dog into *that*.

These places are getting less and less remote all the time. I saw an article within the last year or so about the drug trade in the mountains of Afghanistan. A shepherd was interviewed about smugglers that come through the area. He bitched about having a few of his herd stolen...and his cell phone.

Tough decisions for this kid. Become a race-car designer or stick to driving. Something tells me he's going to have a lot of fun no matter what he ends up doing.

Probably not all that wind is crosswind...if any of that wind is head-on it'll decrease their necessary takeoff speed. Without the wind I imagine they'd be going faster.

Either the ad guys that planned this are all collectively fellating themselves right now...or they're tripping over themselves to replicate this stunt elsewhere.

Bingo. Guy obviously doesn't know jack about EVs. Unless Merc has secret plans to pull a million car's worth of batteries out of their hat, there's no way they're catching Tesla.

Honestly, I don't see this being a huge problem for Tesla. The big guys re-tool all the time and I don't see it being a problem at all for Tesla to poach enough talent from them to be able to make that happen for themselves. Once their battery fab is up and running, they'll be in as good or better position to make…

That and you can still go Zed-Oh-Six for not that much more. That getting you 625HP > 580HP. But whatever really. Horsepower is getting past the tires anymore. The only real thing 400+ HP gets you is a coupla grand bill every year for keeping your car shod.

And the C7 would still eat it alive around the 'ring.

Why on Earth would anyone buy this car when they can get a C7 for the same price or less?