I’ve got an uncle who used to drag race in a modified Lotus Europa back in the late 70's, early 80's. Quite successfully as well. Wish I had some pics of it, it was a pretty mean car.

I highly recommend MotoMatters.com for MotoGP news, information, rumors and everything else. His race round ups are the second best thing to the races themselves.

It’s a small family company in southern Sweden that did the paint job, seems like they did some work on an Agera R as well previously. They are widely renowned for their skill when it comes to paint jobs. There’s always some interesting cars in their shop.

I’m not much for stickers, but I really like what they did there with the red field matching the front brake calipers. Gives a continuity where there’s usually none. Would be interesting to see this in motion.

I’d go with a car that is also designed by Giugiaro, Alfasud. Never had a Sud myself, but I did own an Alfa Romeo Sprint Veloce which shares the same platform. Wonderful car to drive.

First thing I noticed when I saw the pictures. Glad someone else spotted it as well!

I wonder how much harder it is to do with one wheel front/two wheels back, but back in my youth we would drive these mopeds on two wheels for miles witout any effort.

I grew up reading Swedish car mags, Mellberg is definitely a name I remember from back then. The fact that he did just about everything in steel is incredible.

Obviously his ambition outweighs his talent.

Ah, now I understand your points better.

You do realise that being fastest isn’t a necessary component in making great production bikes? All modern sport bikes are so ridiculously fast and competent that you get nowhere near their potential on public roads, so who gives a f—k who builds the fastest production bikes? Honda didn’t get to the top of the…

I’ve read a little about it in a Swedish article and it seems like the aircraft (a J35D) first was traded to Aces High Ltd in the UK for a MiG-15. They in turn sold the J35D to Warplanes Inc, Burlington.

is it better to have reached any audience and not make money from some of it, even if there’s a possible future benefit, or to have never reached an audience at all?

Thanks, I guess it’s not really as bad in there as it looks sometimes :)

What about driver safety/comfort? What equipment do they have that allow the driver to survive and also stay uninjured during those jumps/rolls/neckbreaking shifts back and forth? Some of the moves they make makes me wonder how they can avoid neck/back injury.

I didn’t like it when it came out, but over the years I’ve come to appreciate it a lot more. Like any good design, it takes time to get used to but will probably last much longer.

Good thing they left this squad at home

I’m happy to see that he finally found a proper car to play around with, but those super wide wheel arches... it’s just too much.

I think the problem is that modern coffee places (Starbucks and various copies of it) just have too much options on their menu. And everybody wants to be special with their favourite mix that they like only because they want to seem like they’re some coffee experts.

There’s a couple of details on a bit more everyday car that I’ve noticed. I used to have a ‘93 Prelude 2.2 VTEC, and now I daily drive a ‘11 Civic (EU).