At the speeds they are going, foils don't work too well, the pressures are so high that the water boils at the leading edge. You'd need a super cavitating design which would take a lot more engineering than building a set of massively powerful V8s.

The only way to improve this cockpit -other than a 3rd pedal- is if it was centered like an F1. Glorious!

What? No footage of the starving people in the camps? The night time blackouts? The best propaganda convinces you it isnt.

How does mimicking the leading edge of a whale's flipper on the trailing edge of a swim fin increase its performance? Shouldn't this be highlighting the trailing edge of its tail?

At what point does it get less expensive to build up in a wind zone like Miami than using more horizontal area? Having been on the design team for a (much smaller) high rise in Ft Lauderdale (that never got built) I can't imagine that the current real estate market is forcing this. Is it becoming another prestige…

I swear I had a version of this from one of my Dad's engineers running on an IBM 286 in the early 90s... Was a lot of fun, with two people sharing the keyboard!

Another example of why VW hates us all...

Calling this a Selfie is doing the photo, and photographer, a disservice.

I don't disagree but they threw out the expanded universe. :( So to me its just looking like the original concept art Xwing...

This is a much closer design to the original SW concept art from Ralph McQuarrie:

Didn't catch fire?

I don't drive "mine" everyday as its the wife's daily driver, but I too enjoy it with the automatic... ours lacks the flappy paddles though. So planted, handles great, and the road trip (to DC) we took from Detroit at the end of May proved its highway chops. "Manual" mode was flawless in the hills.

Hell yes.

The T16 is a tiny 2 seat vehicle, flying behind the AT-ATs (15m tall) they're positively huge, you may recall Luke's in the background shots when he's cleaning up R2 and 3PO in A New Hope. The Lambda class shuttles are 20m long, so they should be longer (and a heck of a lot taller) than the AT-ATs.
Just watching the…

Aside from everything being terribly out of scale, fun vid.

This reads to me like it should conclude, instead, with "Bring back the TVRs".

Too bad the draft with those fixed foil appendages will be so great you'd be forced to use tenders to get on and off unless you're tying up at a deep water harbor. Wing sails are problematic when not underway, too.

Foiling multi-hulls are popping up all over the place after the last America's Cup: the A-Class,…

Ok now build a knex roller coaster and run a gopro through it, cause that POV was the best part of this vid.

This. This immediately came to my mind.

Oh look, everyone on Gizmodo is suddenly an Architect!