Mazda VGT on Goodwood Statue
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^^^^ Those pics are cool.
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No, it'll be disassembled once the festival is over.
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For lack of a better place to post about it, I find it interesting this is the year that Mazda was to be showcased. Especially with the 787B and future Le Mans concept, you'd think it'd be next year. Which marks a quarter century since Mazda, or more-so, Japan has won at Le Mans.
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And the bait is set 
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I am a Star Wars freak, I am a Mazda freak, but I don't get this one
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Heck yes, the Vision Gran Turismo could definitely use more recognition. And Mazda is doing a good job at promoting theirs.
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I am a Star Wars freak, I am a Mazda freak, but I don't get this one
Jenga-Jango?
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Ah... oh... TBH not so funny IMHO
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Anyway, I'm off to GWFOS right now (5hr drive, so an overnight stay for tomorrow). If anyone happens by me on Friday, please say hello - I'll largely be around all of it and probably wearing a GTP T-shirt and cap, clutching a Canon EOS350 without a lens cap.
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So do Goodwood themselves...:
https://grrc.goodwood.com/festival-of-speed/latest/mazdas-fos-central-feature-revealled
Love how they misspelt revealled in the webpage title
"One is the now-iconic form of the Mazda 787B, the screaming rotary-engined, make-your-ears-bleed hero of La Sarthe in 1991 and the first, and only, Japanese car ever to win Le Mans. Don’t believe us when we say it’s noisy? Check out our video here.
The other is a modern day homage to the Le Mans winner in the form of the Mazda LM55, a digital vision, designed for the GranTurismo 6 game, made real. And a complete stunner – for many people the best looker of the whole Vision Gran Turismo series.
And the sculpture itself? At first sight it’s a giant Jenga game, hundreds (actually 418) white bars piled into a tower that twists and and turns as it rises skywards.
It looks simple. But closer inspection reveals a far more complex shape, full of tension as the criss-crossing bars combine in an elegant twisting form whose obvious strength defies its elegant lightness and delicacy.
In these things the sculpture is the essence of Kodo Design, Mazda’s successful ‘Soul of Motion’ ethos that shapes all the road cars, most recently with the equally strong yet delicate new Mazda MX-5 roadster (which incidentally will also be on show at FoS and which you can read about here)."
So, do we agree with Goodwood - do you think this is the best looker of the Vision Gran Turismo series (so far)?
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One of my favorite designs, yes.
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More likely Grand Touring Class 1, if they intend to race it. Although this being a GT1 is obviously highly, highly unlikely.
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GT1 no longer exists as a class.
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That's right, I forgot. My bad. :
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Love, hope, speed, beauty, Mazda. Easily my favorite sculpture so far. (Atleast until Chevy gets one) It makes me wanna take out a Mazda and rip a massive burnout in it.
Hmmmmmmm...
PS. Please tell me this thing will go into an art museum after the festival!
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So an update really is happening.
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In game =) was posted on the Goodwood FOS official Twitter page.
https://twitter.com/fosgoodwood?lang=en-gb
Looks like it =)
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