superfastmatt
Matt Brown
superfastmatt
Matt Brown is an automotive engineer, writer, and builder of unconventional things. Mostly vehicles.

Amazing how much Oklahoma is like Hungary. It's a small world after all. Read more

For a few hundred dollars you can be on the other side of the country in 6 hours. I could decide right now that I wanted to see Germany and I could be in Frankfurt before I have to take another shit. Read more

Goddammit Matt, you know its lunchtime in other timezones, right? Read more

Please, just Matt. Superfast is my father's name. Read more

I think it would still be called a motorcycle since it has a motor. in fact, since a conventional motorcycle uses and engine, it shouldn't be called a motorcycle. Read more

Wouldn't the richest man have a Tesla? I don't think there are any functioning EV-1's left. Read more

1957 Studebaker-Packard Astral. The zenith of the fantastical hyperbolic show car, this baby was atomically powered, gyroscopically balanced on one wheel (though it could hover at low altitudes over water and land), and it had a protective curtain of energy that made collisions impossible.

Two things I've had enough of in the car world are super expensive sports cars that I will never be able to afford, and ludicrously powerful show cars that will never make it to production. Rimac has somehow managed to combine these two things into one garnet red turd in the toilet bowl of the non-existent future. Read more

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Why does this car name make me think of early nineties cleavage? oh yea, I remember.

There are a lot of instances where power is throttle limited to keep the front tire from wheelieing too high, the crest on the straight pre-corkscrew at Laguna is one high speed example, but every corner exit would also benefit. True, you do get side force as well as downforce in corners, but it might be a net Read more

I've read so many YouTube comments that I now assume everyone who comments on the internet is a semi-retarded 14 year old from the suburbs of Idaho. I now see that Frank Stephenson is an accomplished professional during the week, and in his spare time enjoys being an amateur semi-retarded 14 year old from the suburbs Read more

I'm not sure where to start, except to say that you gloriously missed the general point and various specific parts of my comment and, it appears, the entire story. Read more

I think the commentariat on this site has significantly degraded over the last few weeks. Read more