Sports/Supercar Design Thread

Sounds just about right to me! It’s a nice well-rounded supercar for its time, straddling the no-man’s-land between the light, compact sports car that is the LS25, and the money-no-object LS60, which is a true top-tier hypercar. As for the spec, all three are available in a very wide variety of exterior and interior colors and finishes, but these three colorways are among my personal favorites.

To give you an analogy, if LVC were Assoluto from Ridge Racer Vita, the LS25, LS35, and LS60 would be equivalent to the Promessa, Bisonte, and Fatalita, respectively. However, the LS60 is what the Fatalita’s closest competitor, the Soldat Raggio/Rauna, would have been had it existed in the 1990s and had more retro-inspired styling. Also, the LS35 is basically my take on a '90s interpretation of what the Raggio’s smaller sibling, the Meltfire, could have looked like. In any case, all three mid-engined LVCs have rounded, thalassic forms that would have fit right in with the design trends of the time.

Just for fun, I cloned the LS60 Spyder to create a fixed-roof Coupe variant, finished in bright gloss red with a red/black interior to honor what the LS25 looked like as originally submitted in QFC44:

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As I’ve mentioned before, the Coupe, with its bubble-like glasshouse looks even more like a '90s interpretation of a '60s sports prototype than the Spider, but the latter, with its detachable soft top, is not that much heavier (by 9-10kg). And creating a Spider variant of the LS60 might encourage me to give the other two mid-engined LVCs the same treatment.

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