Saleen Is Building a New Supercar—And You Can Help Design It

The C8 is a little big for my taste (esp the wheel proportions being made for 20 inch and up) and definitely porky. I'm thinking more like Lotus evora but slightly taller in the shoulder and roof line like the new Prelude and with an almost centered driver (displaced by having the console and shifter between them and the "driver's side" whatever Market it's being sold in) so you can fit three 6'4 people with helmets. I definitely want something at least under 3,200 and preferably under 3,000 lbs with the driver, not something that's 3,400+ pounds curb weight without the driver. In order to squeeze that all into a 2.6 M wheelbase and roughly 1.8 m width I would say that they should copy Ford's discarded T Drive concept with a transverse inline engine (Ford was going to use a smallish inline 8 but I recommend a 4.0-4.6L inline 6) but power is taken from the center of the crankshaft like a motorcycle and the output to the wheel hubs is naturally symmetrical instead of needing an intermediate shaft. I also say give it a gated 7-speed single overdrive dogleg dog box semi/close ratio transmission with a long 7th (not too long but like 1.3x or 1.35x longer than 6th) for highway cruising around 60mph at 2000rpm.