Something...something...BMW parking job...

Presumably so, in states which don’t require a front plate. I don’t know the ins and outs of why a US plate would be required as well.

He sure raised a lot of money. He’s a savant at that.

if you had sarcasm tags, i wouldn’t have bothered to respond!

so what you’re saying is he has even more corporate experience to understand the undertaking to deliver a product on schedule, and yet he keeps over promising.

I hope you show up to rag on Chevy for their highly-asterisked $60k C8 price tag when they finally start shipping.

Yes. Business in the front, party in the back. :)

They are still on the schedule as originally stated.

Aww! You're wrong!

The truth is, cars that are actively going to be raced will simply go with a fiberglass/carbon fiber hood or cut their own vents if they need that kind of additional cooling. There’s no real incentive for them to create useful ducting for capped vents.

It may be a z4 in drag but they also forgot to shave and put on lipstick, so it's more crazy guy wearing a dress from goodwill than drag.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason why the Supra took so long to come out is because he kept sabotaging the prototypes. 

Well, we ARE living in the world of “if you shout it loud enough and repeat it enough times it MUST be true,” aren’t we?

The more I look at a Supra with its meh collection of lumps, bulges, fake vents and especially its two-cars-grafted-together styling; the more I hate it.

“Look, we know you’re already thinking about grabbing the sawzall, so if you have to live out your texas chainsaw massacre fantasies on our years long project, this is where we recommend..”

Sounds like a great way to ensure that nearly every example will eventually have some flat-billed boy-racer take a sawzall to it. Good luck finding an unmolested one in 5 years.

Masquerading as a car with a reason

Take this with a HUGE grain of salt as I haven’t seen the car in person, and I don’t have the best sense how the geometry of the hood relates top to bottom, but could Tada-san actually be telling the truth?

I.E. what do the six circled fasteners do if not attach a panel?  The placement looks about right...

The quotes in the R&T article didn’t seem to suggest this was a pop and go solution. Rather, if you were building a race car and were going to add brake ducts, etc., these fake vents are the suggested places to apply the sawzall.