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

If you’re going back, I highly recommend Pikes Peak on Thursday and Friday Practice before the race. Especially from Devil’s Playground. You have to wake up at 3am, but it’s totally worth it. Read more

I always enjoyed your writing, Bradley. Even when I disagreed with your opinion. Especially when I disagreed with your opinion. Especially when lots of people disagreed with your opinion and you still defended it into the comments. You definitely were not wrong 2,430 times. But you did write 2,430 entertaining posts. Read more

If you’re driving across the country and stop at a battery swap station, you get a different battery, one that might be more or less degraded than the one you leave there. If that dynamite Tesla guy just went to a swap station and swapped out his battery, his problem would be solved, but whoever picked up his battery Read more

It’s hard to imagine owning a product made by HD, but I might have to test ride a LiveWire. I already own the Grom. Somewhat ironically, I bought it used from a Harley dealer. Read more

Somebody needs to shove one of these V4 engines in an old-school Fiat 500. Read more

Z06 was ~ $25k above base for the C7. If it’s in the same ballpark for the C8, it’ll be $90k Read more

Maybe it’s because I spent so many years designing for mass production, but: I always find the Corvette far more impressive than the Koenigseggs and Paganis. It’s much more difficult, consequential, and just cool to bring technology and performance like this into the five figure sale price and five figure production Read more

It’s a great time in EV hot rodding. I’ve had so many people message me about their cool EV projects; this show is going to be great. Next year will be bananas. Tesla-Jag will be there for sure.

I chatted with this team at speed week; everybody was super nice and knowledgeable. I would love to go for an electric land speed record but between these guys, EV West’s nebulous theorem effort, and BYU’s streamliner, all the weight classes are stacked with serious competition. Hopefully they split up the electric Read more

December 4th? That’s plenty of time to finish the Jag! Read more

So you’re saying there’s a Plaid powertrain available for motor swapping? Read more

It looks great in pictures; does it look great in person? Read more

I’m always blown away by the size of these ships anchored in the SF Bay. On the left side of this picture is an absolutely enormous ship, almost as big as Alcatraz island on the right side.

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There is some handshake that happens between the drive unit and whatever is sending it the canbus signals so its a little more difficult, but the people over at Open Inverter are about there with the M3/Y. Read more

Perfect addition to this car: https://jalopnik.com/someone-on-craigslist-is-trying-to-sell-a-vw-rabbit-wit-1845647638