spending $2mil on a car gives the audi/vw folks a return on their tech investment, and they can roll that back into more r&d. lots of that tech eventually makes it down to the next gen vw. some of you are incredibly short sighted for supposed tech fans

I saw the setup in the winter of late 1986. It was deep (many levels) under the physics department's machine shop, deep underground, at the University of Maryland & you had to go down several ladders to get there. It was hanging from the ceiling, big giant (I thought hollow, but apparently solid) cylinders of what looked like aluminum, hanging from thin wires. Does anyone know if it is still there?