I’m actually surprised this hasn’t fallen into the standard LS category that every other kit car uses.  It’s refreshing to see something different, but this is certainly different in a direction I wouldn’t have expected.

That seems debatable to me. For that kind of power, making a old engine survive or be streetable isn’t necessarily cheap. I was going through whether to build a small block stroker for my 67 Dart or put a modern 5.7 Hemi in and the cost to get a vintage engine to even 400 horsepower that wasn’t a strung out miserable…

The “new” S7 Le Mans uses a significantly excited 7-liter Ford Windsor V8,

Yeah, and I suppose a folding hard top would be my preference over a soft top for a setup like that.  Just feels like it would wear better in the long run in an environment like that.  If you are sitting idling in a lot of stop and go traffic the airflow design doesn’t do you near as much good, though I would imagine…

I guess a folding hardtop vs a soft top wouldn’t be so bad.

Hmm, I have two concerns about the new design.  Firstly, this looks like it’s going to be way harder to mod than before, which personally doesn’t bother me, but that’s been such a huge part of Corvettes for years now that I wonder what the aftermarket is going to do.  Secondly, all those huge cast parts sound like an…

The thing about mid engine being “affordable” now though feels kinda made up.  It’s not necessarily like that layout is intrinsically more expensive, it’s just that the only people that are doing it are high end supercars that charge a bunch and make a few cars.  If Ferrari wanted to make 20,000+ cars a year I’m…

I go both ways on it. It’s cool when a manufacturer puts forth the effort to go out and try to set a bunch of records (like the ACR did), but at the same time the only reason it might be setting those records is because the manufacturer put the time and money into doing it. Does that make it the fastest? Not really.…

Does putting a folding top directly over an engine sound like a strange idea to anyone else?  I suppose it’s possible it goes in the rear section of the trunk, but that would mean likely no storage, so seems unlikely.

Yeah, I guess the only thing for me would be if I’m driving around the block at my house would it start lifting the nose because I’m within the range of my driveway, even if I’m not actually going back to my house.  Seems like it would have to lift early to be safe.  I guess it can tell what direction you’re going…

Ah, good point.

Consider me skeptical that the GPS version will work that well. Firstly, typical commercial GPS is accurate to what, a few meters? I know military GPS is more like a few inches, but not your average run of the mill unit you can buy at a store. Secondly, if it takes 2.8 seconds to lift, at 24 mph that’s 98 feet. That’s…

Wow, that’s pretty cool.  Seems like it could be “easy” enough to implement on any VR headset, though doesn’t the Pimax also have some unique lenses or screens that have higher resolution or something in the center field of view?  Kind of more passive foveated rendering so to speak.

I thought you were talking about Diablo II at first when you said D2.  I was going to say, “wow, you are playing some old stuff”, but I usually end up playing with my friends once a year over Christmas or something as a somewhat traditional LAN party thing now.  We’ll try to come up with some new idea like getting to…

It’s a race car with razor thin paint, I wouldn’t exactly be that worried about scratches because, you know, it’s a race car. Like, one that raced on a track with other race cars. And it has thin paint that would likely be damaged by things you might find on a race track, like rocks, rubber, other cars parts, etc.

This seems a bit overly restrictive to me, but then again I don’t play Overwatch.  I feel like they should have a little be of flex, like one position can be any role, but I guess that would be tougher to implement.

Ah, very interesting. I guess really without eye tracking you can’t do true foveated rendering, though you could just render the center of the screen better and assume people will turn their heads instead of their eyes.

Just reminds me of this:

Are you talking on a Rift?  I didn’t know that foveated rendering was a thing yet.  I know it has been tossed about in discussions, but is that something that’s backward compatible with all the headsets (assuming it’s Oculus based)?

Yeah, I thought about that after I posted.  Still 600+ amps to each motor at 600V, which is at least more reasonable to consider.