It's a PhotoShop. The original looks like this:

Better than that, it had the world-renowned motorsports cheats Tom Walkinshaw Racing running it.

I'd definitely say getting a 690bhp 6.5L V8 to better 5-10mpg is many things, but not blameworthy.

Why does that mid-engined car have such an improbably long nose?

Uh - standard quadrotor? It has a pretty unusual configuration with those two body fans (rather than the equal-length X most common in quadrotors) and it's able to rotate two of its ducted fans (again, quite unlike a traditional quad rotor) to transition between vertical and horizontal flight. This is quite far…

Could be, considering they aren't working on it at the moment... The owners are http://www.rockymountainwesty.com/ so they're in the selling business.

Better yet - 1967 VW Type 2 + 1971 Pinzgaur = the 'Splitzgauer':

Is it just me, or are these Fiat Ritmo/Strada fronts kind of attractive in a sort of 80s Tron-ish way? There's three different vent sizes and shapes on that one grille! This was a beautiful example of something almost entirely absent from US roads.

What was calamitous about STS-9? No-one was hurt or killed; they didn't even discover the APU fire until after it had burned itself out. And what was tragic about Liberty Bell 7? The capsule sank but no-one got hurt. Spaceflight is dangerous, and any landing you walk (or swim) away from is a good one.

Tip of the ice cube?

Thank you for that - I agree that the NART looks like it's suffering from subsidence.

Yes, and I'm going to embolden this to make sure you get the point, your math sucks. Your post reads:

Your maths sucks real bad. Using your 10% figure (which is about right, I should think) there are four gay drivers in every NASCAR Sprint Cup race alone.

Like the Four Horsemen's jacuzzi.

You're a moron. The car is not just obscenely complex and electronically guarded to prevent tampering with it - it requires even Nissan's own mechanics to train extensively and specifically to work on it. If you're rich enough to buy one of these and sink $20k+ of upgrades and modifications into it, your time is…

"Paint me like one of your French girls."

What is pathetic, miserable semen stain on the sheets of humanity. People like that should suffer a sustained and savage beating with a tire iron.

Came here to post this. The Smart Roadster was a great car - a two-seat, mid-engined, Mercedes-made turbo-charged rollerskate with a removable or convertible top and an optional glass Kammback - and it was completely and utterly ruined by its gearbox. (Also arguably by its headlights.) Gordon Murray, no less, liked it…

Meh, envious and bitter internet commenter gets what he deserves; as little attention and as much contempt as possible.

I have to say I agree. Patrick's viewing this car through lenses so rose-tinted that everything must look like a '70s porn movie; it's not any particularly desirable characteristics that he thinks will make this car desirable, but merely the fact that it was the last 'performance' Panther-platform vehicle. In my…