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Comment by herpdyderp

7 hours ago

Would be great to read about it but my residential internet has apparently been blocked for "malicious activity".

From the pictures, this is the kind of vehicle that you would gladly pay extra to have delivered to your second vacation home so you can park it next to your 6 other semi-exotic cars and drive it half a mile to the country club on Saturdays.

If that is not your demographic, they might have geo-located your IP and blocked you based on the median income of your area. (Only half joking.)

  • It's about 44 grand. It's definitely not "country club" money.

    Not a hell of a lot more than say a Fiat 500E convertible, and quite a bit cooler.

  • Oh, c’mon, it’s 44K. One can easily spend 30K or more on a motorcycle these days, we are a long way from “country club” prices. If it came to the U. S., I’d probably pick one up to park next to our Hyundai (yeah, a Hyundai, not a Range Rover).

Residential internets are now proxies for AI scrapers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741357

  • specifically, “free” VPN isn’t free. They use your computer that has the VPN software installed as an exit nodes for other customers. Those other customers hammer websites for their AI until it gets blocked. Sucks for you, unfortunately.

    Talk to your kids about the dangers of VPNs before it's too late.

You're Web browser probably isn't leaking enough identifiable information for the site to judge whether or not you're a bot, so it default to denying you.

It looks like a kit car version of a Porsche 356 crossed with a Nissan Figaro.

It actually looks rather more expensive than it is - it's about 44,000EUR putting it at the same sort of money as a Focus ST. Expensive toy, but not horribly so.

Unsure what it's based on, probably (like the Figaro) some fairly inexpensive existing car's subframes.