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If all of MINIDave's criteria were met, I'd buy. Period.

For the record, the enthusiast community will NEVER get that lucky.

 

Not anymore....

The Copyright Office has granted an exemption to the DMCA (Digital Media Copyright Act) that allows vehicle owners to modify, diagnose, and repair their factory ECUs.

The Librarian of Congress this week ruled that for at least the next three years, vehicle owners are now free to delve into those control systems for any legal purposes such as diagnosis, repair or lawful modification of a vehicle function. Unfortunately, the librarian also made an exception to that ruling when it comes to infotainment and telematics systems.

“Accordingly, the recommended exemption excludes computer programs in ECUs that are chiefly designed to operate vehicle entertainment and telematics systems due to insufficient evidence demonstrating a need to access such ECUs, and out of concern that such circumvention might enable unauthorized access to creative or proprietary content.â€

So you can hack away at the Engine stuff. Just don't get caught trying to remove the disclaimer notice on your Nav system.

 

It's so you don't need bathroom breaks on long trips.

 

That's at least a $35,000 - $40,000 car...

 

Family jewels heated driver's seat....

And of course.....Because racekor, passenger doesn't rate...

OR

Instead of piping engines noise through the speakers.... This uses magnetic hysteresis to give the driver a special closeness to engine harmonics not offered by other companies...

and of course.....Because racekor, passenger doesn't rate...

 

At least. But if it meet all the specs that MINIDAVE mentioned I might add my name to that list. My only real concern would be modding, a car like that might require me to go cold turkey. :yikes:

 

I've never forgotten that the Mercedes 300SLR that won the 1955 Mille Miglia (1000 miles around Italy in 10 hours non-stop) had a, ahem, lightening hole in the floor directly in front of the co-driver with a removable bung in it, since there was no way a winning car could afford the time to stop so the crew could relieve themselves. How the driver could use the hole (rubber tube, perhaps?) was never explained.

 

That is one very sexy car.

I don't want to shatter your dream Dave, but I don't see any way something this enticing would be priced at under $20K. I'm not saying that it could not be built under that price point, but I just don't think any manufacturer would miss the obvious profit potential to price it much higher.

Supercar looks and Cayman-levels of performance won't be priced like a Dodge Dart. Just sayin'.


Perhaps the closest thing to that concept car on the market today is the Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ twins and they start at about $26K. And the development costs for that car had to be shared by two major manufacturers.

 

With a Yamaha engine... It will be a screamer... You won't need to mod it...

Besides... Modding any of the newer engines will be illegal from an ECU code copyright infringement standpoint once the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" laws kick in ... Government.... By the people... For the people...

 

Yes, but.

Mexico, like our neighbors to the north (sorry Canada), doesn't actually make cars.

Oh sure, workers in Mexico assemble lots of car models that companies outside of Mexico design, develop, engineer, test, refine, and market.

But there is no Mexican automobile industry, per se. So all that assembly infrastructure you mention belongs to FCA, Ford, Nissan, GM etc.

Compare that to developing countries like India and China where they are actually making cars of their own design (yes, even China, copycat central, has developed its own unique cars).

A company like the industrial powerhouse of India's Tata Group might be able to bring such a car to market and do so cheaply. But I would say the opportunity for Mexico to develop its own auto industry have long since past and will never return.

 

^^^ Man, that's tubular....

 

Totally.

 

Last I heard, Mastretta Cars was no more. Mexican sports car company Mastretta hits trouble

Still Gordon Murray's iStream process has real potential.

After all, I scream, you scream, we all scream for iStream!