Maybe? I’m betting the carbon isn’t structural. Because the seat articulates it likely has a steel frame underneath and the carbon you see is merely a cosmetic shell. Carbon fiber is only lightweight compared to other materials in a structural application. In a cosmetic one it isn’t meaningfully lighter than any other…

Nope, no hole for the crotch belt, just a pedestal for your junk. And without a roll cage (or at least a bar for the shoulder belts) you still can’t put a proper harness in anyway.

The seats are ridiculous. I don’t mind the color, but the faux racing nonsense is stoopid. Carbon fiber backing on a 10 way adjustable seat? It still must weigh a ton. And what is with all those holes and trying to pretend like there is a 5 point racing harness on the options list? I miss the days when the M3 was an…

The biggest weight savings comes from all the cash you no longer have in your wallet after paying for that strap.

Sure, but he still missed the mark on the 7 series. The poor car still looks upset about it.

D’OH!

How could they? What is there to copy that Honda created as new?

Quick product pitch: A color-matched plastic panel that continues the line of the bumper, and a black grill section on the bottom to hide the bottom have of the snout.

Anything to cover up more of that snout.

Correct. Using the strap instead of a proper handle is kinda like Porsche and the GT3 RS door handles and the “it’s light weight like a race car” ethos.

All I see when I look at the green M3:

You’re suggested edit surpasses Reuters. ;)

An electric Drophead would be brilliant.

The definition of surpass is to become better, greater or stronger than, not merely more than.

Considering the amount of coffee that gets put away at AA meetings there should be plenty of energy to run a car.

Excellent point, but even so, how do you set that price without knowing what you are supposed to build?

I gotta believe GM at least sent an engineer down to see if there was actually any functioning tech.

Makes sense given that while still CEO he would have to report any sales of Nickola to the SEC.

There is definitely some complicity here, but members on a board of directors will rarely go on public record. They are not the public face of the company, that is the CEO’s job.

Whenever a CEO suddenly “retires” without warning, it is because they got fired by the board.