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Old 10-23-2016, 05:46 PM   #2256 (permalink)
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You mean this?

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“We’re really trying to think about it from first principals, particularly in terms of saying this is our vision of what this car should be. Something like a Porsche 911 is basically the triumph of evolution over a bad concept,” Newey says bluntly. “It’s a bad idea, and they’ve managed to make it half-decent by a whole bunch of engineering. The important thing is to get the concept right.”
The Motor Trend pictures on a white floor are helpful to explicate the underpinnings. It starts to look a lot like Colani's C-form...



...Just with the front wing and more elaborated fender forms.

It sounds like the NA V-12 is provisional. If they want to sell it in Germany after 2025, it will be all-electric.
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