FRANKNOTE

It's a perfectly street-legal VW, too, with current California registration and smog-approved gas-burning front engine made by Volkswagen. It's just this humongous big thing projecting 23 inches rearward from the hatchback that makes it different from any other bug. The 'thing' is what Patrick describes as 'essentially a baby Lear jet engine, a couple steps down from the engine on an F4 Phantom.'