I think jumping on the tire iron to tighten the lug nuts is a bad idea. People should have little trouble generating ~80 lb/ft with the 1 foot long tire iron cars come with. A 180lb+ adult jumping on a tire iron is going to severely over torque the lug nut/stud and likely injure themselves when the tire iron slips off.

Except that the I3 doesn't come with "reduced mass." For its size, it is still very heavy at 2800+ lb. It's very irksome to me to see carbon tech finally getting into main stream vehicle production only to have it wasted on creating a bloated electric hatch.

Stuttgart's high end offering from 1978:

86.5 model Porsche 928 with 5 speed.

This could also be a UPS truck. The UPS fleet in this area is like 30% budget rental trucks. I don't know if they buy them off of budget and don't get them painted or if they just have some large scale rental agreement.

That jumped out at me too.

Faking it? My NA miata is only 25lb heavier, makes 30 less horsepower, has better shocks, more tire, arguably handles better and I have 12k into it. It also comes with free squeaks and rattles with lots of chassis flex.

It would be interesting to weight the results based on how many of each model were sold.

This headline was formulated to get under my skin so I have to write a wall of text rant. The amount of crap modern cars come with that isn't part of being a car is mind boggling. From where I sit, feature creep has been the worst thing about how the auto industry has progressed.

I think the point is to have another offering within reach of the typical club racer for faster wheel to wheel racing. From the sound of it these are only about 50lb heavier than an SCCA spec ford but with 80 more horsepower and better aero. Most of the other club racing series are in street cars.

As is this won't be competitive in ESR.

All you have to do is make it orange:

The bar/half cage design looks so unsafe. Why stick that bar running down the middle of the car where it is unnecessarily close to the driver and not able to improve the rigidity of the structure?

I hate the go-ahead wave and always ignore it. I'm not about to pull my car into traffic if I can't personally see it is clear.

There is another higher res photo from the show floating around that shows a 7000 rpm redline.

What does the car weigh? It this basically a newly manufactured 80s hatchback with modern EFI? If so, how do I import one? :)

"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.