SCG004S Review from an Actual Client

Wow. Where do I even start!? As Jim always says, "Here we are!"

I was honored to be one of the first few people to drive the 004S on Feb 26, 2022. To say the anticipation and excitement have been building up to stratospheric levels is a total understatement. When Jim always says in his videos about things with his car company being "emotional," he is not kidding around. Believe me when I say I was trying to stay calm and focused as I looked at the first 004S, even though I looked like a 6-year-old opening presents on Christmas morning in the video. So almost 24 hours later, I still have all those emotions and have swirled the details around in my head, and am ready to give you my God honest review.

I will start with the exterior. And oh my God!! The presence is impossible to avoid. It is super in-your-face aggressive yet classy all at the same time. Something incredibly hard to accomplish. Jim, Jesse, and the designers did an absolutely incredible job with the design and lines of this thing. In-person is a whole other animal compared to looking at pictures. During the drive, we had everyone and their mother loco their eyes on us the second they saw us! Drivers opened windows, walkers literally stopped in their tracks. I have never seen anything like it. I have driven millions of miles in exotic cars. This 004S get looks like no other! And for a good reason. The body is soo long and elegant. The massive 21-inch wheels almost look small since there's so much golden body all around them. The front and rear carbon areas are fantastic. Every little inch is amazing, and I could have spent an entire day absorbing just the exterior details.

Next, interior. The central driving position is incredible. In fact, it's so unbelievable, I forgot I was driving a center-seat car!! It hit me halfway through the ride. It felt like I was driving a standard vehicle on the left side. In one of the videos, you can see where I finally got conscious of my seating position. And that position was sublime. It's like the car is made around the driver. Why would one want to offset to the left or right when driving a car? Why not operate the car from the central middle position? I'm sure other OEMs have thought about doing this. And I am sure engineers, architects, and accountants alike all lost their minds with the rules and regulations to make it work. But not team SCG. More about the team later. The steering wheel, carbon Sabelt seat, trim panels, pedals, and all the other stuff in the interior was perfect. And I also hear some of that stuff will even be improved on, which I don't even find necessary. The AC pumped ice cold!

Now the juicy part, THE DRIVETRAIN, AND THE DRIVE!

The gold car had 167 miles on it yesterday when I was with it. I put about 10 miles on it, going back and forth on a heavily patrolled road in ritzy Jupiter, Florida. From what I understand, the LT4 ECU holds back a lot of power and boost until you reach 500 miles. So a bunch of the power and torque was being pulled. Even so, the massive low-end torque and high rpm pull were terrific! The super aerodynamic design and extreme lightweight must contribute to how HARD it pulls. I am incredibly excited to drive the same car again in Connecticut in the spring once the motor is fully broken in and the ECU is on the FULL 650HP map. The clutch pedal felt great. Extremely easy to drive and control the slippage driving away from a stop or banging a hard shift at power and speed. The brake pedal also felt great to me. I did a few hard stops to test the brakes, and it had a positive, reassuring feeling, and the car scrubbed speed very fast and without any chassis movement or flex. I was able to hell toe and rev-match perfectly. The gate and shifter also felt great, even though they will eventually need an ever so slight adjustment with some more miles. This particular car was assembled with the standard coil overs versus the magnetic suspension option. I purposely hit some potholes and road imperfections. The suspension and chassis ate them up perfectly. The car did not make a sound. The car did not move around. It reacted freaking perfect! I know most sports cars are not usually civil when on rougher roads. I can't say I'm surprised the 004S has such excellent manners over the bad roads. The long-wheelbase just ate it all up. As I said, I was just on the public streets, so I couldn't thoroughly test the handling capabilities. As an accomplished amateur ++ track man, I can promise you that this car will haul the freaking mail! The calibration and tune-up of the chassis and suspension settings are damn near spot on.

I absolutely can't wait to transfer the weight from one corner to another on track in a 004S! At one point, at about 55mph, I chopped the steering wheel left and right pretty damn hard. The chassis and body were rock hard and had zero flex or noise from either. The car just rotated and moved around at the limit of its traction from the tires. Just wow! Pull that maneuver in most street cars, and you'll be on the curb in no time. As precious as this particular first-ever streetcar was and as careful as I was driving, I had absolute confidence in its agility to accept such input. Now I can only imagine the magnetic suspension option on such a lightweight car with this magical chassis!

At the end of the day, I can talk about this car, this company, and the beautiful people who operate and run it. And I WILL talk about it all forever. My 004S will be a forever car. Perfect for my 2 kids, I to crush miles and go on our adventures and trips. People go crazy for track-focused cars. Or cars that were born on the track. I am one of them. I have a Carrera GT, which is all the above. I am not selling it when the 004S comes in. But I can solidly say that nothing comes close to the Carrera GT as a track car for the street as a 004S. The first-ever rolling and driving 004S was assembled in 48 hours in Europe and had its first-ever miles on the damn Nurburgring! Which was driven by Jim in the pissing rain, and it had an incredible amount of poise and posture for such a newly assembled car. The chassis and body were also built to be a race car FIRST! And a very successful one at that. And only after that team SCG made it a 17 digit vin car for the road.