So, you would rather have a dodge journey over a stingray?

What aero work did you do to the car? Is most of it inherent in the Lotus exige body work, or additional bits like the front splitter and new rear end? WHat tools did you do to validate the designs while building? CFD, wind tunnels or straight rolling tests?

How did you choose the engine for this car? Why a domestic V8, and not something more exotic, like a twin turbo V12 say like a Pagani, or even some V10 race engine variant from a company like JUDD?

Why the exige platform and not anything else? Stretched Evora may have needed less length to fit the V8 and transaxle..

Will you try again to make sure this record is official? Or ever consider some new tires and a beautiful place called the Bonneville salt flats?

I would wager a fair sum of money that trying to reduce the compression ratio of a diesel engine to something that could suit the Otto cycle would be horribly in-efficient, if it would run at all. Not to mention, the need for different injectors, (spray patterns would change alot with the viscosity differences…

Yes, sorry, the others replaced conventional coil springs with pneumatic return valves. a traditional cam still operated the poppet valves..

ARGGHHH this hits some pet peeves of mine... here goes my rant.

Christian does not believe that this will keep the internal combustion engine from becoming obsolete, but he did say it will extend its life. But just imagine if this idea came to fruition a decade ago. Where would internal combustion be today?

Even if the battery start holding charges better, and you can charge them in 20 minutes, rebuilding the infrastructure to have gas stations with chargers will be a big challenge. make 5-10 years to 10-20, and your statement is spot-on!

Renault did it, Honda did it in F1 and MotoGP, I believe Ferrari had some iterations for a bit too. Pneumatic return springs have been around a while

It depends on the class, They have both. No clue if that GT is still street legal..

DIESEL IS COMPRESSION IIGNITION<<< NOT A SPARK PLUG!!! the compression ratios alone make this impossible, so do the differences between heat rejection of the combustion type, as does the actual in cylinder flow needed for mixing fuel and air.

It does seem complicated, but I wonder if each valve is on its own system for some inherent redundancy, or keeping the whole system small to minimize hysteresis? The valve motion is completely decoupled from the cam motion, so other than the choice of fluids, oil with multiair and air with "freevalve" they seem…

ARGGHHH this hits some pet peeves of mine... here goes my rant.

Hennessy dropping a small block into a lotus is no different then any of these guys. 278mph in only 1 mile... Ford GT for the win. Your welcome Skaycog...

Screw Guinness Records, Talk to these people for land speed records. But don't bother them until you pick up another 30mph...

7.0L LS9 block,,

You sure about that? I thought it was an LSX block,, If it isn't a cheap Chevy sourced engine, why would such an expensive car use a pushrod valvetrain?

I didn't contest that it didn't work. It is just the dumbest post on jalopnik ever.