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ikon2003 · 02-25-2005, 01:33 AM

Quick little scan from Player Magazine - Anniversary Issue 2005. My roommate got it, and while perusing, I found this short article on the Lotec Sirius. Generally, I don't appreciate car reviews in these non-automotive-themed magazines, but because this is a rather rare and lesser-known car, I decided to scan and post it. If anyone is familiar w/ the bknd of this car's development, it's striking how similar it looks to the old concepts, and how "modern" it looks in spite of being designed a decade ago. The only real change I can see is the wheels, which IMO are fantastic looking.

Very nice car. Enjoy!
~Ikon

PS: sorry for the sorta blotchy scan job - My HP scanner kinda sucks. I used to have a Cannon scanner which was brilliant, but now I'm stuck with this HP POS. So if anyone is in the market for a scanner, I would avoid HP.

frua · 02-25-2005, 04:55 AM

great car!!! thx for scan!; anyway, these wheels dont suit this car. IMO; its more like tuned japanese cars equipment, not for such a sience-fiction racers like Lotec...

gucom · 02-25-2005, 01:38 PM

great car, ive sene it in the flesh on a car show...it has plenty of presence, but it was tucked away in a cheap corner of the show...Those sills have to be (some of) the widest ever on a road car...whats that, half a meter??!? :shock: ??

BADMIHAI · 02-26-2005, 03:16 PM

Holy mother of fuck! The power to weight ratio is insane. :shock: The looks are a bit to over-complicated and the width is just too much. Still, it's one impressive machine.

findleybeast · 02-27-2005, 02:04 AM

Sweet article. This is something i'd more likely expect from the likes of EVO or CAR, rather than Player. Not that the writing is all that great, but that's a hell of a car. Great to see the car finally getting some well deserved attention. Am I blind, or do they not state hp and torque numbers anywhere in that article? Oh yeah, and I still think the headlights are too damn huge.

BTW Ikon, are you sure it's the scanner? It looks like you just have a really big compression rate on the image, particularly considering the resolution of the pic

ikon2003 · 02-28-2005, 02:22 AM

^EVO did an article a while back. Better than this one IMO, but definitely for a different audience.

As for the width, i think it compares it to a Diablo, which is "slim" by comparison.

^I've messed w/ the scanner a lot and i dunno what's up w/ it. I kno the HP software sucks - makes scanning a chore. Also not very easy to use, and too controlling. Maybe somewhere in its depths i'll find a compression adjustment dial and make some better scans in the future.

findleybeast · 02-28-2005, 02:47 AM

you see the width of the sills tho? good god

^- I have HP and typically use the HP software, but mine turn out better than that. Dunno tho

ikon2003 · 03-08-2005, 03:36 PM

Yeah, my hp software is pretty simplistic. If anyone is familiar w/ HP Director tho, plz send me a PM so i can improve my Scans.

And yeah, those sills are extremely wide. You could definitely put 4 people across in that thing, or even 3 with a lot of room left over. (There's some concept sports car which actually did that, and then had the driver in the middle. I forget which one. It wasn't like the Mclaren F1 where the two passengers are behind the driver, but everyone is sitting on a single "bench" seat that spans the width of the car.) Somehow I wish Lotec would have done a better job of space utilization for the interior, maybe w/ some luggage storage in those huge sills tho, if structural rigidity could be maintained. Maybe they actually are storage compartments for all i know.