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Weber Sportscar Faster One Makes Eyes Bleed

As an engineer, you are taught to maximize efficiency, provide function over form, and do it with the most cost effective and elegantly simple solution possible. That may have been the target with the Weber Sportscar Faster One, but no amount 900 HP, twin turbo supercharged V8, 250 MPH top speed whatnot actually makes us want this car. The original Weber Sportscar stung the nostrils but this one only pushes it further. We see it and all we can think of is this video. Goddamnit Weber, get some designers.

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1:20 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
2,625 views, 88 comments

Latest by fishiftstick: Would I have chosen some of those angles? No. Individually, the Weber's features are almost comical examples of what not to do. But as a whole, it just works. (Uh, to a point.) Between safety, CAD and aerodynamics, car design has more »