If you dislike this car because you think it's not grounded in reality enough, or you think lasers sound ridiculous, then you don't get the concept or briefing in the slightest
Disliking it because it doesn't conform to what we have 2014 shows that you aren't open to the future. You aren't someone ready to ask questions. You aren't ready to move forward. So what if it's weird? Sci-Fi from 30 years ago is the norm in technology today.
That's a charmingly ignorant brush you're tarring everyone with. Particularly considering the posts already explaining issues with the car beyond "ew, technology."
As pointed out several times, laser propulsion is already something used.
It hasn't been pointed out once, because it
isn't something already used.
The technology as it stands now is small scale proof of concept that scientists are working on scaling up for different applications. You're also making the huge assumption that GM actually put any more thought into the random cool words they put together to describe how the car moves than Nike did when they made commissioned the 2022 (which was none, for the record).
Do you think 50 years ago, people thought a box with wheels and two giant fans sucking it to the ground was normal?
Nope. Even the later attempt to replicate the concept in F1 was pared back in complexity compared to the 2J.
Everything about the 2J is
also pretty much irrelevant when it comes to this car. And this
is something that has been pointed out and explained, btw.
I've just realised, we have a bunch of people moaning (quite rightly) that we haven't seen much in the way of creativity from some manufacturers, and then we get a design with some ingenuity... and they don't like it because it's too crazy? What exactly would they like from a VGT then?
Really, it's like every post you've made in this thread has some sort of ridiculous strawman.
Prove the two groups of people were the same.
We get it. You like the car. You don't need to get laughably in people's face when they question the design like this:
Do you deliberately ignore all the very obvious facts?
When your own arguments have holes you can drive trucks through.
in the late 90's people thought anything that had a touchscreen would be the most ridiculous thing ever now look at what literally EVERYONE carries around in their pockets.
No they didn't. Touchscreen devices were fairly common by the turn of the millennium,
and had been being mass produced to streamline user interfaces since at least the mid-1980s. The limiting factor was always display technology rather than conceptual lack of understanding with touching a screen to select things displayed. There is nothing whiz-bang-wow about being able to do the same things on your modern smartphone that business types were doing on their Palm Pilot 15 years ago; and a large menu driven interface seen in most touch screens (for example, navigation systems) is barely removed from what ATMs have used for 30 years now.
in the late 80's people thought a hybrid type car would be impossible and a waste of money to invest in, now I'm pretty sure by 2025 all cars would be hybrids.
That's another completely unrelated comparison built on revisionist history. In the 1980s battery technology was basically completely stagnant so hybrids were wholly unfeasible; and since gas was dropping like a stone and CAFE regulations were relaxed no one actually
cared to invest in the technology. It was never thought to be "impossible".
And
@Tornado, I understand your issue with this car, you believe that it doesn't match the reputation that Chaparral created throughout the years. May I ask one question, out of pure curiousity?
What design would you choose for it?
Something in the spirit of the Delta Wing, where the box is basically completely turned upside down compared to contemporary vehicles.
Make the thing look like a smoothed out, more modern 2J with all of the advancements in aerodynamics since then. Make the entire car some sort of super powerful electric vehicle (one motor for each rear wheel, and one for the fan) akin to the Chevy Volt, where the engine really just provides constant charge for the batteries
and the extremely streamlined shape due to not relying on conventional aerodynamics makes the car very power efficient and fast; and the use of batteries allows endless weight distribution options. If you want to get really crazy with it, introduce active aerodynamic shutters in the front that open upon braking to turn turbines that help charge the batteries in addition to conventional regenerative braking; or line the upper facing portions of the car with photovoltaic cells to get that extra boost of energy for endurance racing. And since you are using an electric motors rather than ICE engines, you get the theoretical reliability boost when running around Le Sarthe.
Practical applications of current technology in ways not thought of before to try to gain a competitive edge, which was Chaparral's actual schtick in the 1960s; as opposed to a completely hypothetical pixie dust car painted white with the Chaparral name put on it presented along with vague assertions of "the future."
They had me until "It features a mid-mounted laser beamed-energy propulsion system, which pulses beams of light that focus in a shroud, creating shock waves that generate tremendous thrust in the lightweight race car".. really? 
