The line between "Playing it safe" and "Greedy" is a blurry one.

Starting up a production/fabrication line isn't cheap. Start-up costs for, say, a plastic injection mould (for a casing) isn't cheap either.

Chris Rado's Supra build has a bored out 376 cubic inch (6,16l) Toyota 3UR-FE V8 (found normally in certain Toyota Tundras and Sequoias) which can take up to 50 psi (3,5 bar) from two huge snails. Projected power? 2500 hp at 10k rpm.

Jackson portrayed from the, IMO, right era. He was great when he made Bad and Thriller. Afterwards? It went downhill from there for me.

And if you didn't, I'd have raised you with this:

Citroën pulling a 1-2 podium finish ahead of all the WRC cars, on the 43rd Tour de Corse, Rally of France in 1999? (Ok, ok, the pic is from the Rally of Spain of the same season.)

So yes, Nürburgring laps are pointless.

Actually, I'll take the Minority Opinion then.

Methanol doesn't have the horsepower needed to propell a car? Current DFMCs already put out 5 kW. And the beauty is that current internal combustion engines can be modified to run on the same fuel. With plenty of power. (ChampCars and Indy Cars were run on methanol.)

Still, you wouldn't want to sip the condensation from even a modern internal combustion car. Gasoline or diesel. Polycyclic carbonates, soot particles, and so on. But I'll sip from condensated output from either FC or DMFC without fear. Not that I know of any of those around.

There are DMFCs that run of factory-grade methanol without further purification. That was reported back in 2001 already. ( DoE report ) Scaling up beyond current 5 kW capacity (if Wikipedia is correct on the 5 kW) will take more time and effort, but that doesn't mean it's not feasilbe.

Funny thing, but there are other fuel cells that will do this trick. A DMFC (that's Direct Methanol Fuel Cell) will operate on methanol vapor and expell pure water and pure CO2. No NOx nor nasty carbohydrates either for that fuel cell. And plants actually love a bit of CO2.

That still doesn't eliminate methanol as a viable fuel for a mixed methanol internal combustion / direct methanol fuel cell car park.

Let's put it this way: If it's suitable to race cars with methanol, including pit stops for fuel (Yes, I'm looking at you Champ Cars and earlier Indy Cars) then it isn't toxic enough to keep out of cars.

So, you need an easily transportable and storable fuel that will be able to power an internal combustion engine (for a car or a range extender) and able to power a fuel cell.

Did you notice that the date of the article was 28 March 2013? Suspiciously close to April Fools day?

Well, tricky one, this. At least the second bit.

Puma... Don't start.

The car appears to be sitting on an incline, that's why the perspective might look off. It's not level. (At least, that's how I see it.)

Someone posted this on Oppositelock. But I can't find that post. So credits to whoever put it up there in the first place.