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View Poll Results: Which type of Le Mans Prototype do you generally find more pleasing on the eye?
Barchetta (open top) 29 27.88%
Coupe (closed top) 75 72.12%
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Old 3 Dec 2007, 22:38 (Ref:2080989)   #51
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I've seen pics of the mock-up of the Pug with a proposed new window width rule. This makes it dangerously close to a DP front. Gonna have to find some way to differentiate the Le Mans style car from the Grand Am or average fans will be greatly confused.

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Pretty horrific, huh? "The Peugeot 909 by Fabcar".

I really like both, but based upon this proposed rule I'm voting for the open top cars.
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Old 8 Dec 2007, 16:40 (Ref:2084396)   #52
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Oh horror! Are these airheads at the ACO really gonna follow them idiotic fabcar windowwidth and roofheight rules?! What has come in to these people? Do they wanna scare fans away? Are they getting complacend like the F1 mob?
Maximum noise levels,no more wheelspin in the pitlane,an environmentalistprice for the cleanest car,moving the public ever further away from the track...who's running this gig nowadays? The french greenyparty?
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Old 8 Dec 2007, 17:32 (Ref:2084425)   #53
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^just a side question, when were these max noise levels introduced?
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^just a side question, when were these max noise levels introduced?
Since this year,2007
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Old 8 Dec 2007, 20:36 (Ref:2084514)   #55
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For me, open cars will always be tainted with the WSC curse.

WSC's were the open replacement for Group C/IMSA GTP, all bar a handful looked awful, and were much slower than the cars they'd replaced.

IMO the Zytek/Creation was the first truly beautiful open car of the current era, but how much better looking would it be with a roof!
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Old 8 Dec 2007, 20:46 (Ref:2084522)   #56
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Oh horror! Are these airheads at the ACO really gonna follow them idiotic fabcar windowwidth and roofheight rules?! What has come in to these people? Do they wanna scare fans away? Are they getting complacend like the F1 mob?
Maximum noise levels,no more wheelspin in the pitlane,an environmentalistprice for the cleanest car,moving the public ever further away from the track...who's running this gig nowadays? The french greenyparty?
It was pointed out in the EI article the photoshop of the 908 was not a true reflection of the final cars.

The new cars have a minimum width at the base of the cockpit around 30cm greater than the 908, but the actual coupe roof can be any shape the designer wishes, i.e. a squarish shape like the Mercedes CLR/911 GT1 98, or a dome shape like the Toyota GT-ONE/Bentley Speed 8. The other stipulation is a maximum cockpit volume which would make the rear cockpit resemble a Mercedes C9 or 962, rather than the very short teardrop shape of the 3.5l Group C cars such as the 905.

The 908 cockpit is exceptionally narrow, nothing comes close to it in the Group C or GT1 era bar the 3.5l 905.

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Pretty horrific, huh? "The Peugeot 909 by Fabcar".

I really like both, but based upon this proposed rule I'm voting for the open top cars.
The ACO have made clear that they want to avoid the DP look, the max with refers to the base of the canopy. Expect the cars to resemble the late 90s GTPs like the Toyota GTone, Merc CLR. The ACO has also said that the Maserati MC12 is the kind of style the new cars will have.



The photoshop on enduranceinfo is misleading and distorted by the single seater nose (which will be eliminated by the new rules).

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looks like I am one of the few who like the open cars
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Old 9 Dec 2007, 00:33 (Ref:2084636)   #59
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The photoshop on enduranceinfo is misleading and distorted by the single seater nose (which will be eliminated by the new rules).
Not just that, they stretched the top and bottom of the cockpit, but only the bottom part has to be a minimum width.
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Old 9 Dec 2007, 09:25 (Ref:2084743)   #60
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I dont know what all the fuss is about, just let the wind tunnel do the talking and Im sure all the coupes will look fabulous! Even if they look like giant wedges and we end up with the MC12 and Saleen s7 lookalikees is that sooooo bad?
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