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Heart-click for beating me to the correct answer.

Man, that is cool as hell! Pity it never made it stateside, gullwings are slick.

Gullwing microcars? Which Mazda is this?

Am I reading too much into this, or does the response from the marketing guy sound an awful lot like a variant of "screw you; I got mine"?

Well, then, by my estimates the GTR needs 600 pounds of computers to do all that space-time bending it seems to be able to do 'round the 'Ring.

I wonder how they pitched this to Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. "Hey guys, d'you wanna sign some photos we're sending to assuage customer vitriol and tacitly endorse a busted-ass car?"

Agreed on all counts.

Yeah, it's really a shame they just kind of silently closed up shop a few months back. Still, the Evora is a nice note for them to go out on, and that final matte black Exige was a sight to see. It's a pity they're not around anymore and will never make a car ever again, but I respect them for sticking to an ethos in…

Man, I love bikes but there's just something different about a person's brain chemistry that lets them do things like this. I'm not sure if any number of track days could prepare me for this.

Me too, man. I knew they wouldn't post the video if he'd died in a fiery wreck, but good lord.

To the people complaining about their lack of safety: RTFA.

Too heavy to wear as jewelery? We'll see this thing on Kanye's neck in a month.

If I didn't know better, I'd swear that was just a regular mini with a tasteless chop job done on it. I'm all for preserving design cues, but Mini should look to Audi on their left and Porsche on their right for how to do it properly.

At the voltage / current levels that thing will have to run at it will generate PLENTY of heat that needs to get dissipated.

Whoah whoah whoah whoah - yeah, so a big luxo-barge prototype that will never see the light of day with a hojillion overhead cams and an infinite number of valves and yeti fur interior WHATEVER. The real exciting news here is a Johnny English sequel!

Not quite sure I understand all the consumer rage, but then again... I don't buy vehicles that NEED advertizing. I buy them because they mean something to me, not because some celebrity has / shills one.

Give it the cop package and we got a deal.

A Corvette, backwards.

(looks up at ad) To be honest, the Mini's pretty fun. Get it in the S or JCW package and you won't be disappointed.