11 CPU cores with over 13 gigs of RAM, about 36 hours and only 70~ frames rendered...

I haven't modeled this car, but I've set up the materials for it as well as the HDR lighting and shooting the background plate. The model was a little too heavy to animate even for Houdini. Also the smoke system wasn't any easier on the processors, infact the school computers kept crushing under the weight due to lack of RAM, luckily I had two machines with 4 gigs of RAM for the smoke calculations. Rendered in Mantra. Composited in After Effects. This project needs more time, and maybe a different renderer.. to be continued...