Since when is a 5 point harness and a roll cage a legal requirement to take a vehicle off pavement?

There were a bunch of these videos coming out during DS2, they were fake then, and this is fake now.

Are there any Venom GT customers? Has anyone bought one of those cars, and if so, was it delivered?

But it's fuel savings will never, ever, ever, pay for all that carbon fiber. Aside from being able to say that they did it, what is the point?

Let them have it

Is there a difference between a twin and a biturbo, or is this simply a tuned up 335i?

Primarily, its looks. Rims are metal and shiney, tires are rubber and boring. The more of the visual surface that is metal instead of rubber, the better the look. I always wondered if it was possible to make a hubcab (or rims) that extend over the tire for visual appeal.

The 90's nissan Z's. The 350 was a step in a completely new direction, and it wasn't a bad step, but I would like to see where the Z would have ended up if it wasn't for the change.

Especially the business of having to remove a tire in order to change a battery. That's bad.

hydraulic fluids don't compress measurably. Those systems use hydraulic oil to compress nitrogen gas

Assuming the journey is 400miles, and taking your 20c/4c number as given, that's a savings of $64, and a cost of 5hrs. If you value your time at more than $13/hr, it's not worth it.

Exactly. Regardless how (dis)honest the reporter happened to be, it sounds like tesla made a car that could technically make the trip, but probably won't in the real world. "I was going to make it home early surprise the wife, but I stopped to get her some flowers, and now I have to call a tow truck".

What is the purpose of the air intake(???) directly behind the front wheel?

Look, the kind of people who can afford very expensive cars don't tend to want to die in them. The sort of people who don't mind dying in a very fast car usually can't afford the very expensive ones. That probably means that "civilized" supercars are here to stay.

The video said it was a hydraulic pump, which means it's pumping oil, not air (or else it would be pneumatic), so this sounds almost exactly like the hydraulic hybrid systems you hear about on UPS trucks (oil to transfer the energy, gas to collect it). The accumulators will loose some efficiency to the gas heating up…

The hartley V8

I take it the straight six is FI? it sounds like BMW didn't like the 335 taking away the m3 sales.

Really? I'll have to read on that more. Last I dealt with DMLS, you pulled out a metal model that was porous, and had to be dipped in liquid metal in order to seal it up. The features were pretty good, but the hardness was lacking. Cheapest solution was to machine, and if the details were to intricate for machining…

I love the "welding is mostly electric" caption. Well yes, this is true the world over...

Volvo: Instant hipster credibility.