Unlike the /78 you have posted yourself, this car has not a long tail, by any means. Let’s say half-size.

They do this all the time.

It seems to me they got their inspiration from the sweeter, softer looking Baby version (the one for the under-2.0 litres class of the DRM and which only raced twice; and was later used, with a special rear bodywork, to help a cyclist achieve some records). I always found the 935/77A (with square perspex covers for…

The reasons why the Mazda is not quite so fondly remembered is that a) it was trounced by the Delta HF 4WD and later, the Delta Integrale; and b) it seems the road version of the Mazda was not as robust (gearbox, in particular) as the Lancia one. A race mechanic told me that the engine and gearbox in the Integrale…

Dramatic effect, perhaps. Starts low but ends on a high note.

Well, well, well, nice plug for Mr Lewandowski! I wonder about that English translation though: “[...] the love of perfection that is obviously in the genes of the Porsche technicians” would have worked so much better as “a love for perfection obviously runs in the Porsche technicians’ blood” or whatever.

Indeed they want to evoke the image of some old 911 and 930 racers, as so many details do in Singers. But worry not, you are not alone: I don’t feel they look particularly good.

I agree, but I suppose that by “pretentious” you mean kitsch.

Because that’s how the wing extensions used to be in the Porsche 934 and in many tarmac-spec Group 4 911 SC rally cars, back in the day.

Fascinating, thank you!

To whom it may concern, two things:

Thank you.

That’s a rather interesting reply which I don’t intend to comment on.

I thought about that one but 1) it was a supervan... but not a Supervan 2) it was not built by Ford – or Jaguar, for that matter – but by TWR.

The original Supervan was the test bed for Ford’s GT40 engine with a Mk1 Transit body shell on top.

Already waiting for a follow-up!

Thanks for your detailed reply. The whole A380 programme took such a long time that I had wondered whether Airbus had concurrently started design of a fuselaje variant without the upper deck – only to discard later the whole concept altogether.

I wonder if the freighter version of the A380 would still have two decks? I should imagine that early in the design process provisions were made for a freighter.

It is a bit more complicated than that, right? In certain cases it is correct to use a double-s instead of the Eszett.

It’s full of great pictures and pages and piles of impressive-sounding German words spelled with moon-man letters like Impulszählmeßwerk.