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

I'm sure the designers are super excited about all the Prius comparisons. Read more

That's clearly the new Model O, with added room for more Octopi Read more

it's gonna cost you another $250k to run the cup car for a few seasons, so really this is a question of not having two kids. Read more

I've driven both a Model S and a Roadster on track and didn't have range issues. I lost about 5-7 miles of range per mile driven. It was consistent and I could easily predict how many laps I had left. It was plenty, and resulted in solid track days. Read more

His stake in Tesla is worth 8 billion dollars, how big of a payday do you think he's holding out for? Read more

When asked for a response, Musk was quoted as saying:

Cool, I want mine blue with white stripes, giant wheel arches, clamshell hood, BBS wheels, and cheap plastic interior because if I gave fucks about leather dash and digital touch screens I wouldn't be buying a Dodge. Read more

I'm actually surprised extending beds aren't a thing. I suppose it is because there is little overlap between people with tight parking spaces and truck owners, but maybe it's a chicken/egg thing. Read more

When I was on the Formula SAE team, a group from some bullshit film class asked to do a video for the team for one of their projects. Dude showed up with a camera, and the first thing he said to me was "Can you put a piece of metal in that clamp and grind on it to make sparks?" Read more

I saw one of these when I was in Fruita mountain biking. It was HUGE. It made my minivan look like a hatchback. Read more

I generally enjoy the New York Times, but I have the impression that many of the writers of the auto section view cars as utilities, those yellow and black things that take them to the airport. Ironically, this column seems to be the antithesis of that, but I have read so many poorly researched, factually incorrect, Read more

A battery swapping station sounds like something that would take a lot of time for planning, permitting, and building. You're not seriously suggesting that they threw one together in two days in response to your blog post, are you? Read more

In the future, instead of saying "Does a bear crap in the woods" or "Is the Pope catholic" I'm just going to say "Can you fit a 911 engine in a VW Bus?" Read more

I would expect more data like regional sales and monthly production numbers to just increase the amount of analyst speculation. It would just give more data for clickbaity bloggers to take out of context and could cause more turbulence in the stock. You'd see stuff like "Tesla sales drop in Finland by half!" simply Read more

If I had supermoto tires that could change to knobbies while riding, I'd be so happy. Read more