The future back in Back to the Future: Flying cars running on waste, restomods from hell where you 50 year old sports car could be retrofitted with all of the above (Torchinsky would lose his mind over the flying Beatles and Tracy would make eco-friendly 4WD rust buckets in his landlord’s backyard!).

We all knew it was gonna have a happy ending when we read “Tracy sent an email to David”. You can’t make this stuff up.

It DOES know my name!

Those canards though ...

I was going to say “Top Gun 8 times”.

To hell with “underpowered” ! These are flying buses (one company is even called “Airbus”), customers (i.e. passengers) want cheap tickets and comfort, hence efficient engines and not powerful ones. Almost no one cares about “pilot engagement” (except the pilots). If these guys want to have fun, they better fly Cap 10…

Funny, when I moved in with my GF she loaned me money to by my Z4, and since she is a car-nut, now we somehow have a FN2 Civic type R to keep the bimmer company!

God, the interior is just as shitty as my 500€ Clio 2 from ‘99.

I saw one, like, over 15 years ago when I was living in Alsace. Haven’t seen any again. Back then I thought it was some sort of tuner car, I could not imagine it coming from the manufacturer this way.

(Full disclosure: Old fart answer incoming)

Turbo 4-banger and no manual. Boy does this sound different from my E85. 

I understand, but still, I fail to see the distinction between a screen saying that I drive too fast and a letter telling me I drove too fast 2 weeks ago.

Well here, when you are 10 km/h (about 7 mph)above the speed limit, the radar just displays a frowny face, that limits the “highscore” temptation.

Just use educational speed cameras already.

There is a much less controversial solution to this problem: it’s called educational speed radars.

Hot take incoming:

I don’t have the pretention to be sure that this would be doable with the current technology. As you probably know, going from airworthiness regulation to road regulation would change quite a few things about an APU design. Jaguar gave the idea a try with the C-X75.

Turbines are actually very power dense, that’s why they are prefered to piston engines in aircrafts, where mass is actually more important than fuel efficiency. I am not sure they may offset the battery pack weight though.

9/11: 3000 casualties. US answer “Better fuck up an entire region of the world!”

I hate to praise Trump, but if his policies lead to every manufacturer doing exactly this, demand for US-made cars will rise (in proportions, but the size of the market may shrink due to the additional cost for the consumer).