Aha, but RdS, the "D" and the 300SLR were out-and-out racing cars, and racing car styling has always had little to do with road car styling (for example, racing car folk don't care a fig what they look like). And you have to remember that the "jelly mould" school of styling was preceded by the "origami" school, all sharp edges. This means that you should like the new BMW 5-Series as it's a combination of both - the "origami mould" school?

On the subject of racing car styling, I was pleased to see that Ford has just revived one of the best of all shapes, the GT40. I've been privileged to see in the metal the greatest of all road warriors, the Gulf Oil machine that won six endurance races, including two consecutive Le Mans 24 hours. It's owned by a private collector and he still drives it on the road! The two Le Mans were also two of the most famous, the 1968 "race of the long night" (held in September in the wake of the student riots) and the greatest Le Mans of all, 1969, where Jacky Ickx in the old warrior fought wheel to wheel with a Porsche 908 for the last 4 hours of the race, eventually to triumph by about 100 metres. One of the British motor magazines put it very nicely before the race concerning the GT40s - "don't expect to see them in the top ten before midnight, but they should finish strongly"(!!).