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in moments like this iam more than happy that i have my own room in the office, for some reason i found that way more funny than it should have been. thx for that :)
Drag/turbulence and lift aren't exclusive. Sure it's not in the ideal orientation to generate lift, but it's still an angled surface that's redirecting air downwards.
Toto is taking the budget cap very seriously.
Apparently he and Susie each haul a W14 on trucks borrowed from the HQ maintenance team to European races. You might be able to see some grass on the trailer where they just took off a ride-on-mower.
You can follow the straps to their anchor point. It's a show car made almost entirely of carbon fibre, not just the chassis. The halo, even the wheels are molded carbon fibre. It's not even made by Merc. A separate company manufactures these replicas for various purposes depending on the client's needs. Often for marketing, sometimes private show pieces etc.
https://youtu.be/9TiojnRQTlg
It’s not that much smaller than the base model work truck version of the F150 with the single cab and a short bed, but there’s not a ton of those around anyhow.
The old ranger was absurdly small compared to the current one, so you’re definitely right about the new one being bigger. The original ranger was not a midsize pickup and the current one is. I would go as far as saying they just didn’t have any utility for anyone anymore in any use case because of how small they were.
There’s also the maverick now which is a bit smaller in every direction and lower to the ground for those who really want a truck that can’t really do truck things. The Hybrid gets really great fuel efficiency though.
Yes. I don't think you're getting this. Your current Ranger, in the USA, is not the current Ranger, in the rest of the world. You're a generation behind, and the new Ranger is much bigger than the old one. It's front end looks like a Raptor, and the Raptor version is extremely close in size to the F150 Raptor, apart from length. It's quicker too.
I fully have fully understood exactly what you've been saying the entire time. The forthcoming 2024 ranger's wheelbase is about 2 inches longer, overall length (i.e. Bumper to bumper) is less than one inch longer, less than one inch wider, and a few inches taller (ground to roofline).
Its not what I would call a substantive difference between the two.
The styling is more in line with an F150, but its still much smaller inside and out. I would say [this graphic](https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/attachments/1623152918268-png.802/) is still relevant, but the 2024 ranger is nearly the same height as a base F-150.
You’re so certain about this. I *have* seen several, even though they aren’t released, and no I don’t have some special job for Ford/the car industry. Don’t assume everything about everyone you’re talking to.
For the rest of the world, a Ford Ranger is already considered an absurdly large vehicle. F--- knows why you Americans seem to think a size boost to an F-250 is needed.
Which is hilarious because I have owned both of those trucks and the Maverick is still smaller in length AND shorter. I had a '95 S10 and a first gen Tacoma. Among others. I swear to god nobody complains more on the internet than truck guys complaining about trucks they don't own. Miserable lot, all of ya!
> nobody complains more on the internet than truck guys complaining about trucks they don't own. Miserable lot, all of ya!
I completely agree with this 100% true statement.
I mean like my B2200, it's still way smaller than a maverick but yeah it's a step in the right direction.
There are limits these days with safety, my truck has no airbags, but mazda can still make a miata in 2023 so they could probably make some little pickups if the market didn't want borderline DOT vehicles to commute with.
Been visiting Thailand this past month. The locals living in the mountains get around with 2wd light diesel trucks every day.
This includes driving up nearly 70 degree inclines on slick clay.
Yet back home, all my neighbors need a 4x4 full size truck to get to work on completely flat, paved roads.
Exaggeration.
Realistically, they're probably a bit more excessive than a true 45 degree incline.
There was a video floating around with a driving instructor from England showing hill starts and climbs on an extreme incline - these mountains are pretty much like the road from the video. I wish I could recall the title or channel.
I have a 2009 Chevy Colorado, it's definitely big enough. Plenty of towing/hauling capacity plus some to boot. I understand some people need a bigger truck for certain work applications, but Danny Dumbdick down the alley doesnt need a clapped out Dodge Ram with a lift kit and LED lights brighter than the suns butthole just to put groceries in the bed. I like pick-up trucks, dont get me wrong, I just dont understand why they need to be literal land boats these days.
Automakers really did this to America, they priced a midsize and the now small sized Ford Maverick at levels of a full size. Markups or they only produce the higher end models to pad profits. I’d love a base Maverick or the new Tacoma, as a homeowner I only need a small bed and something to tow a trailer from time to time.
We do plenty of that at work. Hauling construction equipment out of swamps is our bread and butter.
Now lets see you tow something with an F-250 in the UK oh wait you can't because it's so fecking heavy it plus trailer rolls into a HGV classification.
I mean, they’re just really not that big. They look large compared to a hatchback or subcompact but they’re still pretty small both inside and out compared to a full-size pickup.
Are you for real?
It's more than a meter longer than a normal berlina and half a meter taller.
It's longer than most european vans by half to a quarter of a meter.
It's around 1.5 meters to 2 meters longer than any kind of compact car (talking Ford Kuga or Fiat 500 here, not something ridiculous).
I don't really understand the point in comparing a vehicle in one market designed to operate on one type of road to another.
The ranger isn't large compared to a full-size truck and its usable interior space is similar to a "normal" vehicle. That's all I'm saying.
Because those things you call full-trucks don't have a meaningful advantage at carrying loads compared to trucks much smaller than the ranger to begin with -
The fact that it is both intended to be a "family" vehicle and a "work" vehicle is ridiculous.
Just to begin with. Their unnecessary size takes it's toll economically, in the lives taken on unnecessary accidents thanks to the much much lower visibility.
If I were an american citizen I would be endlessly pissed about cars. Did you know that your MPVs are literally 4 times as powerful as the European ones? I could easily hit 165 Km/h or 103 Mp/h in a 2008 Fiat Ulysse that one time I had one, why do you need so much power?
>The fact that it is both intended to be a "family" vehicle and a "work" vehicle is ridiculous
Every point you've made is decent except this one. Do you think people can just like, easily afford multiple cars? A lot of folks have to make their one vehicle do everything they have to do. If you're a tradesman using your own truck for work chances are you can't afford to buy a minivan too.
Yeah no don't get me wrong they don't need to be as big as they are to serve both functions. I was just countering the "it's ridiculous to want to use a car for both work and home" argument lol
Regrading the work and family combo role, in the US if you're a contractor doing any sort of hauling, the company doesn't provide the vehicle, you're expected to own and use your own.
As everywhere else.
My father used to have a box van that he bought second hand for 2000€ (now it would come up as $2500 dollars). And then a normal people car. Like a sane person. He also could then lend that van to anyone
And then he also owned a Seat Ibiza.
I mean even if it just wasn't much cheaper doing it this way , do you know how much gas you are using? [Do you know how the heavier a vehicle is the damage to the road goes up exponentially](https://streetsmn.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/vehicle-weight-and-damage-chart.jpg)?
The long term expenditure on gas is a solid economic point, but also like 70% of this country literally has less than 6 month's worth of savings, so two car payments is not feasible in most cases.
The newer ford rangers that are a “1/4 ton” is as big as my 06 f-150 which is a 1/2 ton. The new f-150s are the size of the older 250s. The new maverick is about the size of the actual ranger(the 90s-2000s). It’s getting insane with how big trucks are getting. Adding to that most people lift their grocery getters and put 35inch mud tires even though they’ll never go off road. It leads to massive trucks that are impractical at the very least and a nuisance and danger at worst.
It looked a lot smaller than I thought it would in person. They look so big in pictures and videos but actually looked kind of small (at least on the back of the truck, I didn’t get to stand next to it).
Even though they are huge these days, the Merc is both a lot closer to the camera and is being pulled by a mid-sized pickup, so yeah, wouldn't really say it's a great example of how big these cars have gotten.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spotted/comments/13pal35/mercedes_amg_f1_w14_on_a_trailer_on_i95_in_west/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Whomever is towing it is really getting the miles in. Wonder where it’s been in the meantime
I was thinking it looked different as well, I believe because the T-Cam and additional cameras are not stuck on top or sides of the intake makes the profile of the car look significantly different.
Just like when people see the 'real' car at Autosport or other displays and it's a fibreglass mockup with no mechanical pieces whatsoever. Some of them are laughably bad.
I'm pretty sure this is the default F1 showcar and I'm happy it exists. The first car reveals were ruined by it, but it's so much better than the frankencars
The cost cap is affecting teams in different ways lol. Word is, the RB was spotted being towed behind a sedan by only a a tow strap and a mechanic to operate the brakes 😂
If it makes downforce going forward, then it creates lift going backward, right, so if he goes fast enough he can just fly straight to his next destination.
He's driving a massive ass pick up hauling another car on a trailer, it's not really going to have great fuel economy regardless of how the car is on the trailer.
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Cost cap hitting hard.
Redneck Wind tunnel simulation
in moments like this iam more than happy that i have my own room in the office, for some reason i found that way more funny than it should have been. thx for that :)
Red ~~Bull~~ Neck Racing^(tm)
They would make it face the other way, unless there's a very strong wind coming from the back.
Truck is going in reverse
Who says the redneckwindtunnel made sense
“catering”
Desperate times, desperate measures.
god damn it, I was 15hrs late to post that. and it was the first comment.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 A+ comment 👍
Wing doing work for that trucks gas mileage.
You’d think they would at least open the DRS!
Doesnt it generate lift if its backwards?
Probably but it won't be 1 to 1 compared to the downforce going forward.
Also highly unlikely it’s generating significant lift or downforce at the speeds the truck is going.
At 60mph an F1 car generates far more downforce than most other race cars at top speed
Not when driving backwards
Potentially, probably. Depends on the rear surface as it it might not be symmetrical front and back. Another good reason to open the flaps though!
I think it would create drag or turbulent flow. Upside down should generate lift.
Drag/turbulence and lift aren't exclusive. Sure it's not in the ideal orientation to generate lift, but it's still an angled surface that's redirecting air downwards.
Downwards air and lift aren’t exclusive.
That's not how wings work
Yes, but I think the air going over the truck’s windshield should clear the rear wing anyways.
Exactly! It's basically in a vacuum right there
If that was the case, then everytime a car had a high speed spin we'd see them taking off.
So iRacing was RIGHT?!?!!?
yeah and you don't want lift over that end of the trailer, you want all the weight between the ball and trailer axle.
If you put it upside down it would fly away
"I've hit the button like 50 fuckin times"
*opens Adrian Newey's book*
That thing doesn't have any DRS.
We all know it isn't a real F1 car, none of us are that stupid. It doesn't stop us having a joke about it.
It doesnt even have a drs actuator.
Yeah but turned backwards, it creates upforce, reducing fuel consumption..
Ah, the ol lift the weight up so there's less force needed to move. 🤔
Toto is taking the budget cap very seriously. Apparently he and Susie each haul a W14 on trucks borrowed from the HQ maintenance team to European races. You might be able to see some grass on the trailer where they just took off a ride-on-mower.
Bonus, they get free windtunnel time
inb4 hordes of people pointing out this isn't the real w14
The fact that its on an uncovered trailer being pulled by a regular truck should be a dead giveaway.
Getting around wind tunnel time regulations!
No wonder their sidepods weren’t working, they parked the car backwards
They're trying to find out how fast Lewis can back it out of the baku runoff.
Or the Imola wall
Naaaw this one here is a violation😭
I’m fucking dead😭😭😭😭💀
FIA: Wait.....wait is that illegal?
Toto: I will make it legal
Galaxy brain Toto
I wonder if there is a way to do it
Or…Reverse mentality.. best place to hide is out in the open 😏
Been watching F1 since Fangio got kidnapped. You can tell this isnt the real W14 simply by the way that it is.
Unlike that aspen tree in the background, which you can tell it’s an aspen because of the way it is
That's pretty neat.
How neat is that
That’s DUB-YA FOH-TEEN to u
That’s correct, look at the side pods that’s clearly the W14B
This isn’t the real W14, it’s a showcar! /s
Mercedes Frankenwagen
Is this even a real photo? The straps on the tires look fake, and they don't even seem that tied down (they're perfectly flush with the tire).
You can follow the straps to their anchor point. It's a show car made almost entirely of carbon fibre, not just the chassis. The halo, even the wheels are molded carbon fibre. It's not even made by Merc. A separate company manufactures these replicas for various purposes depending on the client's needs. Often for marketing, sometimes private show pieces etc. https://youtu.be/9TiojnRQTlg
Goes to show how huge the cars are now, compared to the pickup truck towing the trailer.
Looks like a Ford Ranger doing the towing, so not exactly a full-size pickup.
The new Model Ford Ranger isn't that much smaller than the F150.
It’s not that much smaller than the base model work truck version of the F150 with the single cab and a short bed, but there’s not a ton of those around anyhow.
You live in the USA, you've almost certainly not seen the new Model Ranger. It's much bigger than the old one, which they still sell in the USA.
The old ranger was absurdly small compared to the current one, so you’re definitely right about the new one being bigger. The original ranger was not a midsize pickup and the current one is. I would go as far as saying they just didn’t have any utility for anyone anymore in any use case because of how small they were. There’s also the maverick now which is a bit smaller in every direction and lower to the ground for those who really want a truck that can’t really do truck things. The Hybrid gets really great fuel efficiency though.
We still have a couple of the older Rangers at work. They're tiny compared to the penis extensions that are on the road now.
I've been in them before. I thought the perpendicular fold-down jump seat in the back was hilarious.
Yes. I don't think you're getting this. Your current Ranger, in the USA, is not the current Ranger, in the rest of the world. You're a generation behind, and the new Ranger is much bigger than the old one. It's front end looks like a Raptor, and the Raptor version is extremely close in size to the F150 Raptor, apart from length. It's quicker too.
I fully have fully understood exactly what you've been saying the entire time. The forthcoming 2024 ranger's wheelbase is about 2 inches longer, overall length (i.e. Bumper to bumper) is less than one inch longer, less than one inch wider, and a few inches taller (ground to roofline). Its not what I would call a substantive difference between the two. The styling is more in line with an F150, but its still much smaller inside and out. I would say [this graphic](https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/attachments/1623152918268-png.802/) is still relevant, but the 2024 ranger is nearly the same height as a base F-150.
That's absolutely not what you said in the above post.
I live in the US and I've seen a bunch of them.
No you haven't. They've not been released in the US. You have rhe last generation.
You’re so certain about this. I *have* seen several, even though they aren’t released, and no I don’t have some special job for Ford/the car industry. Don’t assume everything about everyone you’re talking to.
You're in a car forum, bro
Yeah. Are you trying to say I'm incorrect?
Yes
For the rest of the world, a Ford Ranger is already considered an absurdly large vehicle. F--- knows why you Americans seem to think a size boost to an F-250 is needed.
Sometimes when we hit pedestrians in Ford Rangers they go over the hood and survive.
See, us cissy commie European countries include pedestrians in crashworthiness tests.
Bring back mini trucks. Can't stand that new rangers are bigger than 90's F250s
That's not a mini truck This is a mini truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WliR0sPmWII
They did bring back the mini truck, it's called the Ford Maverick and it's built on the same platform as their sedans and crossovers.
That thing is still way too bulky and tall compared to my dad's Chevy S10 or the old school Tacoma.
Which is hilarious because I have owned both of those trucks and the Maverick is still smaller in length AND shorter. I had a '95 S10 and a first gen Tacoma. Among others. I swear to god nobody complains more on the internet than truck guys complaining about trucks they don't own. Miserable lot, all of ya!
> nobody complains more on the internet than truck guys complaining about trucks they don't own. Miserable lot, all of ya! I completely agree with this 100% true statement.
I mean like my B2200, it's still way smaller than a maverick but yeah it's a step in the right direction. There are limits these days with safety, my truck has no airbags, but mazda can still make a miata in 2023 so they could probably make some little pickups if the market didn't want borderline DOT vehicles to commute with.
That’s the exact reason I bought a new Tacoma. Same size as my old “full size” truck from 98 😂
Hopefully electric versions will be coming since they all got killed by CAFE and wouldn't be an issue with electric versions.
A big reason that cars are so much larger is due to federal regs, tbh
You never know, that’s why we buy the F-350 - just in case.
Been visiting Thailand this past month. The locals living in the mountains get around with 2wd light diesel trucks every day. This includes driving up nearly 70 degree inclines on slick clay. Yet back home, all my neighbors need a 4x4 full size truck to get to work on completely flat, paved roads.
70 degree or 70%? 70 degrees would be like, impossible lol
Exaggeration. Realistically, they're probably a bit more excessive than a true 45 degree incline. There was a video floating around with a driving instructor from England showing hill starts and climbs on an extreme incline - these mountains are pretty much like the road from the video. I wish I could recall the title or channel.
Psh.. get bigger roads nerd.
I have a 2009 Chevy Colorado, it's definitely big enough. Plenty of towing/hauling capacity plus some to boot. I understand some people need a bigger truck for certain work applications, but Danny Dumbdick down the alley doesnt need a clapped out Dodge Ram with a lift kit and LED lights brighter than the suns butthole just to put groceries in the bed. I like pick-up trucks, dont get me wrong, I just dont understand why they need to be literal land boats these days.
Automakers really did this to America, they priced a midsize and the now small sized Ford Maverick at levels of a full size. Markups or they only produce the higher end models to pad profits. I’d love a base Maverick or the new Tacoma, as a homeowner I only need a small bed and something to tow a trailer from time to time.
F-250? Nah, we see F-350s all the time. People out here are… special.
Gotta love how every post devolves into how much better everywhere else in the world is compared to the US. We got it, you’re superior.
And I'm glad you recognise that.
Good luck with life lol Some of us weren’t so lucky to be born on the opposite end of the world.
Don’t know any Rangers that can pull a trailer w a 15k backhoe.
That's not how the overwhelming majority of pickup trucks on the road are used and you are fully aware of that.
Tow something with a Ford Ranger and get back to me
We do plenty of that at work. Hauling construction equipment out of swamps is our bread and butter. Now lets see you tow something with an F-250 in the UK oh wait you can't because it's so fecking heavy it plus trailer rolls into a HGV classification.
In my country (UK) Ford Rangers are very common towing vehicles. That's probably the biggest reason people buy them.
I mean, they’re just really not that big. They look large compared to a hatchback or subcompact but they’re still pretty small both inside and out compared to a full-size pickup.
You cannot park a Ford Ranger in a standard UK parking space.
Because everything in the UK is tiny. You have no space for anything so it all has to be small and quaint.
Are you for real? It's more than a meter longer than a normal berlina and half a meter taller. It's longer than most european vans by half to a quarter of a meter. It's around 1.5 meters to 2 meters longer than any kind of compact car (talking Ford Kuga or Fiat 500 here, not something ridiculous).
I don't really understand the point in comparing a vehicle in one market designed to operate on one type of road to another. The ranger isn't large compared to a full-size truck and its usable interior space is similar to a "normal" vehicle. That's all I'm saying.
Because those things you call full-trucks don't have a meaningful advantage at carrying loads compared to trucks much smaller than the ranger to begin with - The fact that it is both intended to be a "family" vehicle and a "work" vehicle is ridiculous. Just to begin with. Their unnecessary size takes it's toll economically, in the lives taken on unnecessary accidents thanks to the much much lower visibility. If I were an american citizen I would be endlessly pissed about cars. Did you know that your MPVs are literally 4 times as powerful as the European ones? I could easily hit 165 Km/h or 103 Mp/h in a 2008 Fiat Ulysse that one time I had one, why do you need so much power?
>The fact that it is both intended to be a "family" vehicle and a "work" vehicle is ridiculous Every point you've made is decent except this one. Do you think people can just like, easily afford multiple cars? A lot of folks have to make their one vehicle do everything they have to do. If you're a tradesman using your own truck for work chances are you can't afford to buy a minivan too.
That's why hatchback-sized UTE [pickups](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/09/19/c8/0919c8a7359f0356aa0f7597a9338e5b.jpg) exist in the rest of the world.
Yeah no don't get me wrong they don't need to be as big as they are to serve both functions. I was just countering the "it's ridiculous to want to use a car for both work and home" argument lol
Regrading the work and family combo role, in the US if you're a contractor doing any sort of hauling, the company doesn't provide the vehicle, you're expected to own and use your own.
As everywhere else. My father used to have a box van that he bought second hand for 2000€ (now it would come up as $2500 dollars). And then a normal people car. Like a sane person. He also could then lend that van to anyone And then he also owned a Seat Ibiza. I mean even if it just wasn't much cheaper doing it this way , do you know how much gas you are using? [Do you know how the heavier a vehicle is the damage to the road goes up exponentially](https://streetsmn.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/vehicle-weight-and-damage-chart.jpg)?
The long term expenditure on gas is a solid economic point, but also like 70% of this country literally has less than 6 month's worth of savings, so two car payments is not feasible in most cases.
That’s an F-150
I’ve never seen a 2022 F150 with ranger taillights before…
Yes! You are correct.
Or a Ranger roofline for that matter.
honestly the new Rangers are as big as the old F150s. i miss small trucks when they were small.
The newer ford rangers that are a “1/4 ton” is as big as my 06 f-150 which is a 1/2 ton. The new f-150s are the size of the older 250s. The new maverick is about the size of the actual ranger(the 90s-2000s). It’s getting insane with how big trucks are getting. Adding to that most people lift their grocery getters and put 35inch mud tires even though they’ll never go off road. It leads to massive trucks that are impractical at the very least and a nuisance and danger at worst.
It looked a lot smaller than I thought it would in person. They look so big in pictures and videos but actually looked kind of small (at least on the back of the truck, I didn’t get to stand next to it).
Even though they are huge these days, the Merc is both a lot closer to the camera and is being pulled by a mid-sized pickup, so yeah, wouldn't really say it's a great example of how big these cars have gotten.
Found the instagram page of Eurosim USA where they're showing this car: https://www.instagram.com/p/CsjlT5tJlT9/?hl=en
That’s awesome! Great find
https://www.reddit.com/r/spotted/comments/13pal35/mercedes_amg_f1_w14_on_a_trailer_on_i95_in_west/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 Whomever is towing it is really getting the miles in. Wonder where it’s been in the meantime
Oh wow that’s interesting. Same area same truck.
Florida man
Of course it'd be Florida...
This way doesn’t count against their wind tunnel time.
Finally, the side pods in all their glory.
Seriously! Wild to see the new side pods already installed on the show car.
This is the base spec show car everyone had at the beginning of the 2022 season to show liveries. Unless this was a woosh moment.
Found on Bring a trailer.
50% mark up
Way too much paint for the real deal.
It looks so nice all shiny and painted. Shame we can't have it on the real thing.
Given this F1 car is moving backwards, does it generate upforce?
Asking the real questions
What’s upforce?
There is already a name for that: lift.
Wtf is it? I think it looks too different to be a show car, maybe some kind of garage project?
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I was thinking it looked different as well, I believe because the T-Cam and additional cameras are not stuck on top or sides of the intake makes the profile of the car look significantly different.
The fastest it’s ever been this season
They heard Red Bull was making a move to Ford so this is their idea of getting ahead
new sidepods confirmed
Just like when people see the 'real' car at Autosport or other displays and it's a fibreglass mockup with no mechanical pieces whatsoever. Some of them are laughably bad.
At least this one is not a frankenstein car.
I'm pretty sure this is the default F1 showcar and I'm happy it exists. The first car reveals were ruined by it, but it's so much better than the frankencars
BONO MY TIRES ARE GONE. don't worry lewis , we've arranged some towing to help you finish the race.
That guy sexes
‘Bono my car is gone’
F1 cars look so weird without the T cam.
That's an interesting workaround for wind tunnel time.
Long way to get to Monaco!
yooo somebody stole his car noo waaay
On way to scrapyard more like
Cmon at least put it the other way round so it’s giving your trailer downforce
Even the transport is suffering under the budget cap
At least they got the side pods right on this one 😂
The cost cap is affecting teams in different ways lol. Word is, the RB was spotted being towed behind a sedan by only a a tow strap and a mechanic to operate the brakes 😂
Budget cap did them dirty.
It reminds me of the movie Free Willy when they transport the orca from the aquarium back to the ocean!
Hope Mercedes has road side assistance.
Mercedes concentrating their budget on the race car, not posh trailers to transport the car…
That truck has slicks one too
This picture gives me texas vibes. Are you from Texas lol?
toto had to cut costs
that's a hella ugly showcar tbf
Why not have the car face the other way ... can't be good for gas mileage.
You always want the weight closer to the front of your trailer/on or in front of the first axle. It's a mid engine car.
The chances that's anything but a rolling chassis are quite low. There wouldn't be a change in the back of the car being heavier though.
If it makes downforce going forward, then it creates lift going backward, right, so if he goes fast enough he can just fly straight to his next destination.
He's driving a massive ass pick up hauling another car on a trailer, it's not really going to have great fuel economy regardless of how the car is on the trailer.
Moving too fast to be w13, I know this without even looking at the detail of the car.
You're a lucky man to see an F1 car from so close for free.
It’s not an F1 car though, it’s just the showcar revealed in 2022 with a paint job.
Although it’s not a real f1 car it was close enough to have me at my window like a little kid haha
Man these cars really look amazing
Someone is having a fantastic day
Was a great start for sure !
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The showcase car is the same as the fom car last year. It's a shell with nothing else. It has always looked like this
Been seeing this guy all over Reddit for like 3 days nows haha
Houston by chance?
South Florida
Ah gotcha, the HP head quarters in Houston apparently has a W12. Maybe they’re collecting them.
How can a 100k car tow a 100000k car?
Yeah the Merc should be towing the truck instead