Christ, the state of that. I liked what he did with the McLaren P1, but the F40 is iconic and what he's done with it there is turn it into a goddamned dumpster fire.
Edit: I keep coming back to this video and finding new things I hate. That wing is a mess. But the biggest thing I hate so far is deleting what he calls the gills (youtu.be/_v5dzFzUvqw?t=1218). They are one of the elements I love the most on the F40 and are a direct evolution from the three exit vents on the 288 GTO that this car is based on (also the prettiest Ferrari ever built), which has them as a direct call-back to the original 250 GTO. You've got design lineage there to the most iconic Ferrari of all time, and you're binning it.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 9 Nov 2020, 21:57,
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What. A. Mess.
The F40 is perhaps the finest example of a car that is purely focussed on performance. As he says in the video, there is nothing on there that is superfluous. Every element is focussed on that objective.
To take the doors for example, in order to save weight and to get the mass distribution as low as possible it was famously shipped with no internal door handles, and with plexiglass sliding hatches instead of wind-down windows. To take a design that had gone to those lengths and hang giant gull-wing doors on it, with all the weight and mechanical complexity involved in that, is to completely discard the whole purpose of the car.
To take the ducts as another example, they were placed and shaped as they were as that was the most efficient way to get air to where it needed to be. They’re not sculptural elements, they’re the bare essentials required.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 10 Nov 2020, 16:34,
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exhaust vents in high pressure areas?
This Frank needs a bit of aero in his airhead.
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