“Like many car enthusiasts, I saw SSC’s original video, had questions about the speed claims, and wondered why they didn’t use a VBOX to validate their extraordinary top speed,” Lau said. “Unlike many car enthusiasts, I found myself on a runway in Florida with our equipment installed on that very car just a few months later.”
“I think there’s a certain…egotism to the tech industry,” says Alex Davies, transportation editor for Business Insider and formerly for WIRED, and the author of Driven.
“Did you know this supercharged 1988 Riviera was owned by that guy who voiced Crackle, from the Rice Krispies commercials?”
And, boy, does it ever.
“I think we added a lot of fancy content to create these Maybach versions,” says Wagener.
“Nobody knew who we were,” Jerod said. “I decided that this top-speed record would be a good way to get mentioned in the same sentence with Bugatti, Koenigsegg, and Ferrari.”
“You can be a success in most things if you put in enough effort, but we all fail in our effort to go home again.”
Wherein, surrounded by my Zoom peers from Car and Driver, I make the case that a Chrysler Limousine is truly shit.
If this doesn’t prove to consumers that electric cars have a BPM rate somewhere above the Leaf/Bolt flat-line, we don’t know what will.
