Indy cars are a different breed, of course, and have to be done to those specs. But visiting the museum at the track there in Indianapolis, I was fascinated by some of those cars with the mechanics exposed. It is like the anatomy of a snake, with all of the "organs" elongated and custom made to fit the aerodynamic designs of the car body shells. It's all to the purpose of a high speed, high horsepower racing car, but it is also pure art, gorgeous engineering.
Yeah, I'm a EV skeptic. Limited range, prolonged charging times, lagging charging infrastructure, soundless operation, impersonal digital controls. But I am fascinated with the whole remaking of an industry to meet the times. I don't know if I'll ever use an EV for personal transportation, but I can't completely avert my eyes from the shear weirdness of it. If Elon Musk would step aside, it might seem a slight bit more rational, if not likable.
Designers now have a longer wheel base, a center-mounted motor, a thin but heavy battery, no need for a grill up front, resulting in a "car without a nose." Kids raised on digital devices may well love this stuff, adore it, growing up with it and having been conditioned to think like this. God help us all. And the prices! Oh, never mind.
