carsthatnevermadeit: Mazda Le Mans Prototype, 1983, by Colani….

carsthatnevermadeit:

Mazda Le Mans Prototype, 1983, by Colani. Next weekend is the Le Mans 24 hour race so I thought I’d reflect on some of Colani’s wonderful Le Man’s prototypes. In 1982 Luigi Colani had moved to Tokyo and accepted a position as a professor there. This resulted in a collaboration with Mazda for whom he proposed this radical Le Man’s car powered by a four-rotor Wankel engine producing 950hp and capable of 235mph. Of course it never raced

Links 2-1-11: Google gets artsy, Readability pays authors, Gamify

Today Google launched its “Art Project.” It’s a nifty website with some very high resolution images combined with street-view style tours of the various art galleries involved. It’s cool, check it out. Even cooler, people can build their own collections of the art and share them, along with comments.