re: Fastest car in the world....270mph

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Yes. It's a stretched out Lotus body, and everything else is custom fabricated in Texas, IIRC.

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Oh, well then Jeremy Clarkson will claim it's 100% British.

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Yes. It's a stretched out Lotus body, and everything else is custom fabricated in Texas, IIRC.

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It's actually not. The only things it shares with a Lotus Elise are the dashboard and doors. Everything else is completely new. There's no way in hell a Lotus Elise chassis could handle that much torque.

And I would take this over a Veyron everyday.

1. It has an H-pattern transmission and 3 pedals like God intended.

2. It's American.

3. It has a Chevy pushrod V8.

4. It doesn't take 5+ miles to reach top speed (that runway was 3.2 and it was still climbing).

5. It sounds like a rabid wild beast from hell.

I'll take it.