"It added a mere 70 pounds to the car"

The car you want is called a mazda2. Tighter suspension than the regular fiesta with more ability to rotate the rear end. It's also 280lb lighter than a base fiesta and the engine needs to be buzzed up to redline to go anywhere. It is stupid fun around city streets but much less fun on the interstate.

"The only kind of Miata I would buy/drive."

I was about to post that.

FWIW I had to buy a 10 year old laptop with a serial port to keep a stable connection to my megasquirt 3 during street tuning. USB has issues with maintaining connection in a harsh mechanical and electromagnetic environment.

It is totally forward thinking on the metric of not letting people touch the insides. You seriously are supposed to take it to the dealership to open the hood:

Airbags historically aren't the life savers people think they are. Modern airbags are great (when they don't throw shrapnel into your face) but up until the late 90s they were designed to restrain un-belted drivers and created additional risk to those wearing their seatbelts. Does the video cover the results of the…

I'll take 10 slightly rough 1979-1984 porsche 928s.

BOOOO to heated seats, ipod integration, leather, cruise, auto dimming mirrors, and bluetooth. Keep your comfort and technology out of my cars!

They are on their 4th drive unit at 30k miles. Cost to replace it out of warranty is 15k. Do you know of anyone with another car that needed its engine replaced every 10k miles?

The key phrase is "quarter panel skin." The rear quarters can't be unbolted and replaced. They had to cut the sheet metal off the car, weld in new metal, sand it all flush, and then paint at least half the car.

? The guy spun and then decided the solution was a roll backwards and do a j-turn.

That driver is an idiot who got lucky. He blew a corner and instead of going two feet in he tried to drive through it and escalated the situation. 99% of the time this behavior leads to unnecessary damage to one or more cars (as it nearly did here).

They are also an awful choice for fasteners. Your #1 goal is to not round off and ruin every bolt in the car.

My 2012 mazda2 is 2280lb and the rumors I have heard say a small weight reduction. I am hoping for ~110 hp with significantly more area under the curve and 2200lb flat.

On what planet is a 3700lb small car "semi-lightweight"? The thing is pig heavy.

That is called a biaxial sleeve. You can order biaxial sleeves from most suppliers of carbon fiber cloth. This is not revolutionary or unique and I am wondering why they made a video out of it? That loom must do something more interesting if toyota spent so much money developing it. Maybe this actually was new…