Upside-down F1, Porsche Boat, AI-taxis and more

w/c 9th October

Hi friends 👋 

Gotta say writing this newsletter is kinda rough.

Yall telling me to improve but nobody is saying how 🤣 🤣 🤣 

Is fine, I appreciate your feedback!
Will keep showing up & iterating 🚀 

Eventually I’ll understand exactly what you like.

While I have you here, a quick question.

Sooo, ready for the coolest stories of the week?
Let’s go

The roadmap 🛣️ 

  1. Innovative way to find a stolen Rolls Royce

  2. An electric Chinese supercar

  3. Driving an F1 car upside down

  4. Honda employees build a rally car

  5. Fails of the week 🍿 

  6. EV ⚡️ 

    a) Robo taxis better than humans

    b) Fully electric Benz lory

    c) Porsche’s electric sports boat (yes…boat)

    d) Top Gear’s EV car awards

  7. Weekly memes 😆 

Read time: 5 minutes

Using an aerial banner to
find Rolls Royce thieves

Some thieves have understood how to exploit the tech of new cars security.

Some scumbags stole this Rolls Royce in 29 seconds which included opening up the garage door.

What does the owner do?

He utilizes his assets - in this case his business.

Bob Benyo (the owner) has a Aerial Banner venture.
He put this ad in the sky and a $5000 reward!!! 👇️ 

Over 300 tips poured in.
Eventually the car was recovered and two men were arrested in connection to the crime!!!!

If you have a modern car, please consider how you’ll protect it 🙏 

The Rimac Nevera rivalling hypercar,
for a 1/10th of the price

Yeah I know what you’re already thinking, and you’re right.

It is from a Chinese company. But hear me out…

The GAC Aion Hyper SSR costs around $176,400.
For reference, that’s similar to a base model Audi R8.

But this difference is wild!

Specs of the entry level SSR:

  •  1200-hp and 907 lb-ft (1230 Nm)

  • Engine: electric

  • 0-60: in 2.3 seconds

Looks pretty good too.
See more below (1min video)

Driving an F1
car upside down

We all know that F1 cars produce crazy downforce.

Can that be used to drive upside-down??

We think so! 👇️ 

Scott Mansell, a former racing driver & now YouTube personality, is on the task.

Him and his team of engineers have spent a couple of years on this and hundreds of thousands of pounds (£) according to him.

I can see why it would take so long.
I’m not a clever cookie.. but when a car is upside-down, there will be oil starvation 🤔 🤔 

Now I wonder how fighter jets do it, hmmmmm.

Anyway, back to the experiment - where would you even find such a tunnel??

Turns out you can rent on in the UK.

But that wouldn’t work so they’re actually building their own damn tunnel 😆

Linking the video below

Honda employees
build a rally car

What do my employees do??
They build my need for patience…

Honda employees are built different though!
Just look at this beauty 😍 

The team used this build to push our members to learn new build techniques, like seam welding and roll cage fabrication.

With each new build the team tests their skills and take on new challenges big and small to expand our capabilities.

- the team

This must be a fun job, that’s for sure!

🍿Fails🍿 

1/ Money can’t buy happiness.
Nor can it buy brains.

A bunch of supercars doing offroad stuff (source)

2/ McLaren forgets to recognize one of their best drivers 💀

And he called them out 😄 

Luckily, one fan came to the rescue…

3/ Mazda miata too powerful

Think you can handle a 400 hp supercar?
Well this guy couldn’t even manage 85 horses 🙄

EV⚡️ 

1/ Will human drivers be banned in the taxi business?

Cruise, the self-driving car company based out of California, just released this shocking study.

Data collected from 2016 to 2018 shows these EV robotaxis cause 94% fewer collisions that their human counterparts.

Huge difference!
And the technology is only in its early stages!!! 🤯

Given the number of daily accidents, maybe governments start subsidizing autonomous driving?

But would you blame them, given the amount of maniacs driving on our roads?

2/ Mercedes-Benz eActros 600

The truck did a 330 mile (530km) with a gross weight of 80,000 pounds (36 tonnes).

It’s powered by 2 electric motors that provide a constant power of 536hp.

The batteries can be charged from 20 to 80% in about 30 minutes using a megawatt charger.

Production of the eActros 600 starts in late 2024

3/ Porsche Electric Sports Boat

We all know that Porsche makes some of the best sportscars.

But can it be the best when it comes to driving on water?

The boat above (the 850 Fantom Air) has an electric motor, producing 536hp.

It’s from the upcoming Porsche Macan EV.

Somehow, the boat’s top speed is only 52mph (85km/h).

Wait what!?
A Nissan Leaf can go faster 😆

But apparently this is fast by boat standards.

4/ The Winners of the Top Gear Electric Awards

  • Best e-Racer: Audi S1 Hoonitron

  • Best Everyday EV: MG4

  • Best Luxury EV: BMW i7

  • The Innovation Award: Mazda MX-30 R-EV

  • The Range Champion Award: Tesla Model 3

  • Best Electric Van: Ford e-Transit

  • Electric Car of the Year: Jeep Avenger

The full article + pictures below 👇️ 

😆Memes 😆 

1/ A friend of mine actually did this 😭 

2/ Idk if you guys like the franchise but this goes hard

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