JESUS SUFFERING FUCK.

Mmmmm... that’s a lot of Mapgas.

Wasn’t there for the jump in question, but the driver at the time (and witness to verify) told the story:

I’d guess that people with that kind of money who actually like to drive the car (think ex-champion race car driver) can a) afford to keep the car at a private garage at a track of choice, and/or b) have the car moved to a different track every time they want to drive it (so they can spice things up once in while). Or…

Thought I recognized it... Same model Avant in “From Russia with Love”

Googled:

All I see is a sub-$4k (assuming some price beat down) V12 racecar.

The exhaust also restricts flow. You need to cut off your exhaust, especially those flow-strangling cats.

Stars for that wisdom. That’s why I have zero regrets about my truck. Small enough to fit in the garage for winter, but big enough to carry the fam plus dogs while towing a trailer. Have beat the bed up loading crap in it, don’t care it’s a truck. It’s the off-road version you say, well that baby has rock-crawled and…

Not that it matters, but ~$150k USD

Huh. Did not know Staubli made anything other than robots until now. The more you know.

Oh my god, so glad you put experience at #1. The double-whammy with drivers that don’t have experience is that they have no idea how the car changes when you don’t set it up properly for winter, so that shit is a bonus.

They maybe you’ll be able to afford one of these (the model I mean).

<feeding the pedantic>

That’s the spirit. Set the bar as low as possible, and everything looks not to bad.

++ on that last comment. The BaT photos are really in-depth, and show that the project was not half-assed. The fact that it was not completed to show-car state was totally intentional and appropriate. I think all the debbie-downer comments are from people who don’t get that it is a pretty well-sorted, cool car.

Hello, this is Murica. You must be new here.

Oh God, where do I begin? It would be better served just making a short list from various eras in my life:

Commute in this.