yeah and if you look at the development roadmap (http://mind42.com/mindmap/7abd1334-d170-42e7-b869-f74010b9b143) you can see cars have been shoved in the corner a bit, we have seen nothing but concept arts on the vehicles, and shit needed to get the vehicles going, chances are they haven't even started coding all this yet
There's a small amount of features missing and some optimization needed but it can be assumed/speculated that by the beginning to middle October things should be at baseline.
Minimum needed for baseline [1]
RustFactions isn't going anywhere, the admins and players like myself have all stated they're waiting for experimental. Just a brief hiatus.