Also of note: the TGV requires SIGNIFICANT airflow through radiators that cool both the traction motors themselves and the inverter/controllers that drive them. When the brakes are applied and the resistor banks begin to heat up they have massive electric turbines to provide even more cooling airflow. The reason the…

Yeah, that bridge pan shot always brings a tingle to my spine.

It's been ridden by several magazines at this point. At least a few exist, and they are taking orders (build to order model)...

Seems they have two primary systems and third supplemental system.

You should watch the official record video. It's amazeballs. The chase vehicle for the record run was a learjet.

Birds are fucking awesome.

Two points:

A friend of mine got a barn-find 20K mile, minty-clean 1980 Alfa Romeo Spider for $500 with nearly this exact phone call.

Fun Fact:

I know that my girlfriend, a sheep farmer, and current 2003 Tacoma SR-5 4x4 extend cab owner would JUMP at the chance to own a small diesel truck with those tow and payload ratings. Interior comfort be damned. She needs to access small fields and small barns and haul small animals, but she still needs to do REAL WORK…

those wheels....

Everyone wants the D.

Call it the Elantra GTS and let us buy it at the dealership.

Call it the Elantra GTS and let us buy one at the dealer.

Motor Trend already thought about what it should look like... not sure about the exhaust, but I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating cookies.

Even Motor Trend thinks this would be a good idea...

Soooo, either they deemed the Ecoboost + Symposer "not butch enough" for the 'stang or the 2.3 Ecoboost sounds less awesome than the 2.0 and 1.6 in the F* ST siblings?

did you look at the build page though? Frankly I can excuse that when I see what (and how) was done to fit the rear suspension and differential in there.

I would drive this Frankenstein's monster all day long, and twice on Sundays.

damn, youtube has everything...