This is awesome to see, but put some freaking gloves on your kid dude. Used automotive oils and greases are packed with nasty hydrocarbons and dangerous VOCs. Used motor oil has been pretty strongly linked to certain cancers.

The Pike’s Peak Hillclimb course is very deceptive.

Still a naturally aspirated engine though? Gonna lose a lot of power as they go up past 10,000 feet.

If that’s the fuel tank on the bottom then what the hell is this fuel-tank-shaped thing on top?

So many moments like that in this lap. Craziest one might be that drop at 5:28. Motherfucker straight-up jumps that bitch. There was serious air-time there, and at several other points around the lap. The car goes light and you can hear that V12 testily rev up for a split second as the tires unload. 5:43 is a good…

Nah. In order to build a drift car that will hold together for more than one event then you actually kinda sorta have to know what you’re doing. You probably even have to know how magnets work.

Love all the folks responding to your question with interesting (but, sadly, irrelevant) facts about working with carbon fiber composites. Can’t really blame them though; composites are neat!

I seriously cannot describe how much it pleases me that this thing wears a legit NY state licence plate.

YES YOU DO

German cars in general seem to pull this off just fine.

Yea, but Nissan still wants a serious price premium for their V6 engines that were once far more unique in the market. The VQ has absolutely reached also-ran status at this point. For god’s sake, freaking Hyundai is pumping out mills that will go toe-to-toe with any variant of the VQ at a far lower price point, all…

“There isn’t a damn thing wrong with the VQ anyway. In its current N/A port injection for it’s one of the most powerful mass produced V6’s on the market.”

Yep!

“I saw a video of one once doing 10s quarter mile.”

This needs a million recommendations.

It only looks big because of the ‘butch’ SUV styling. In reality it is no bigger than the Neon which it replaced. In fact, it uses the exact same floor pan and many other underpinnings as the Neon.

They could have put the single wheel in the rear of the car instead of the front.

Yes, only a true contrarian would defend the merits of GMO. I mean seriously, who gives a fuck about the growing population of starving people all around the world who have virtually no hope for better prospects? It’s not like they would be helped by rice with enhanced nutrition or wheat that can grow in harsh…

Nice! I knew what the attitude of modern Marines is like, but it is heartening, and not surprising, to hear that it was largely the same in your father's day.