the texture of the normal map on the shade is too large. It doesn't read fabric, it reads really bad normal map. Try get a finer fabric normal, or I'd suggest maybe just noise.
Looks hot psycho killer. Looks very similar to a 'spider' vehicle I'm working on in my spare time. Do you have reference? I'd hate for us to be working from the same concept haha
Nothing like a guiness but I love too many beers to have a 'favorite'. Spaten is really good as Fletch pointed out and there are some Wisconsin beers that I really enjoy as well like Spotted Cow. But German beer for the win.