More importantly, do we care? Both the Venom GT and the Veyron SS are two different ways of approaching the same problem of going as fast as possible without exploding into a fireball and I don't know that the Veyron SS customer is the same as the Venom GT customer.

You're right, they could sell this thing as the Dodge Dreamfucker with roughly the same results.

RX-7 not working?

Having owned one of these in the past, I don't understand the V8 swap.. I guess I never understand them, but it diminishes the personality of lots of these cars. The I6 was a beauty of a motor, 7k redline that it would hang at all day long. I can't see this car being nearly as fun with a v8..

The Nissan in the first act must go off in the third.

My gripe with that "they deserve to be compensated" attitude is that it too often disconnects performance with pay.   Executives love to subscribe to marginal productivity theory, where employees should only be compensated up to the amount that they improve profitability of the firm, with an additional limit based on…

I have to say, this really hits my heart.  I am doing the same thing as him in an '86 RX-7 GXL.  I am going a different route with a straight 13B setup and I want a cleaner less "mad max" look.  So far including car, parts, and tools, I think I have spent something like $4k on mine over 3 years as a wild guess.  I am…