What a shame. Class act all the way around. I will miss his humor and personality. Too young to be taken from us.

LMP1 is so very competitive, the cars are similar looking much like F1 cars. However, the aerodynamics can vary as much as an Adrian Newey Red Bull design compared to what Ferrari used in 2014. Since I have been a sports car whack job since I was a little boy, here is a visual evolution:

I starred your post, but disagree somewhat. Take 1967, a year that produced some of the most exciting designs as well as racing for endurance sports cars:

Now you are talking!

The wedge shape really took off in the late 60s. Lotus kind of kick started the whole thing with its Lotus 56 turbine car in 1968 at Indianapolis. Then, the Lotus 72 started the trend in 1970 in F1. Can Am cars such as the Shadow also used the wedge and of course, the Lamborghini Countach made mouths drop when it came…

Speaking of strange, how are you doing? Please tell me oh omniscient one how things have improved in the 21st Century? It is neanderthals like you who pose that anything spiritual must be bad. I pity you. I really do. Being boxed into a materialistic world where everything is finite. I called you out because of your…

You obviously did not take the time to read my comments. Everything there is relative. When comparing a 2.7 RS to a 991, here are some facts: The 2.7 RS is anywhere from 700 to 1000 pounds lighter than the 991. It is also about 15 inches shorter than the 991. So, in relative terms, yes the new one is ponderous and…

The car just wasn't competitive enough against the Porsche 935s and Chevy Monzas and Corvettes. The Group 5 car was more of a prototype and used the Chevy Small Block to make it at least give a semblance of competitiveness with the all conquering 935s.

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I always thought they were rather fetching in their Group 4 iteration.

Well, I didn't mention the Esprit, but yes, it was built on a stretched Europa chassis. I always thought they looked rather dapper in the EssexX livery as used on the F1 cars.

Hey dumbbell, I never said that Lotus was stopping. Please learn to read. I said that if they change their name, they are still the same team, hence my rose analogy. Good grief, what is it with people nowadays? They can't read, that is for sure.

How sweet would that be to be able to stand alongside the highway to watch them take off?

When the IDF wanted a new main battle tank, it took lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur war. A front mounted engine gave more survivability to the crew from a head on attack. However, conventional wisdom put the engine in the back, so the design was discounted by tank designers around the world. The sloping front…

Lovely design. The car graced the cover of Road and Track in 1985. FWIW, I have always felt that Lotus has done best when they have kept their cars small and simple, a formula Colin Chapman used to great success, both in road cars and his F1 cars. Whenever Lotus has had grandiose plans, it always seems to spell…

Really? Hmm, a 1973 911 RS 2.7 weighed 2,370 pounds. It had an 89.4 inch wheelbase and an overall length of 163.3 inches. By comparison, a 991 Carrera weighs over 3,000 pounds and has a 96.5 inch wheelbase and a length of 177 inches. So, the new one weighs more than 600 pounds more than the RS and is almost 14 inches…

Thank you!

A rose is still a rose by any other name... [A takeoff of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet where it was, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.] High School literature aside, the Lotus team by any other team would still be the same cash strapped team. For a moment in time, the new Lotus rekindled some of the…

"The only series that comes close in technology is LMP1, which rarely has more than two competitive teams..." You might want to rethink that. There is Audi, Toyota, Porsche and Nissan is entering the fray. There is talk of Ferrari doing a program too. Now what were you saying?

I remember when this car came out. It was a media sensation. All the car magazines ran features on it. Of course, we all knew that there was no way Ford was going to make a mid-engined Mustang when sales of conventional Mustangs were through the roof. This was the same battle Zora Arkus Duntov faced with the Corvette.…