e86 z4m coupe is a little more nose heavy than the regular 3.1si.

It's federal government owned property...

2-stroke diesels require forced induction...

funny... A decent cross section of europe has police vehicles that were manufactured in spartanburg south carolina...

the prius has been doing duty as a taxi since the xw20 (second generation 2003-2010) in quite a lot of places. that drivetrain is durable and so are the nimh batteries

There are a pretty fair number of nominally full size cars or SUVs squeezing better economy and dare we says decent performance out of a hybrid drivetrain.

They're only planning on selling 500 of the first edition in the US, it's not going to unseat anything on the basis of volume.

circa 1955 Regulus cruise missile. nuclear capable. (also later employed as expandable drones)

cruise missiles have been a thing for rather a long time...

> As for the cars? The '14 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray (C7) and the '11 BMW Z4 GT3

MSRP E30 M3 $36,000 in 1988 -> today 71k

RE: the supply problem.

my Z4 and in fact all gen 1 Z4s the x5 and so on are made in spartanburg ga

Put a diesel in this, and we'll talk.

A z8

Because the m4 and the 3 and 4 series in general are wider, longer and as a result better planted. Drive a m135i vs an m3 today and it shows.

The road is owned by the state. the developers have a 50 year concession to operate it.

If one designs partially open window inlets as naca ducts then they can be low pressure rather than high pressure inlets. given car designers know how to do low pressure inlets it's mostly a question of, having driving around with the windows open as a priority, using convection to preclude buffering and validating…