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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