A front engine car that acts like a mid-engine one? Capable of under 7 minute Nurburgring lap times yet street legal at the flip of a switch. This is a masterful piece of engineering that Ford will use to compete with Ferrari's once again at Le Mans.

Potential last gasps before people finally lose interest in high performance ICE engines altogether, and these show pieces lose their lustre to equally powerful (and far more customizable) electric drives.

This is my prediction - electric vehicles won't achieve that level of following until they start producing similar ego-stroking show pieces. They are already in the works.

Don't get me wrong. The car is pretty awesome. But eventually this genre will be considered dirty and old fashioned. Just like stretched out big v-twin motorbikes with ape hangers.

I disagree. We are headed to an era where cars will just be transportation devices. They won't have steering wheels or brakes. You won't drive them but command them to take you where you want to go. Electric propulsion will never have the romance of an ICE engine.

When the car became dominant we no longer used horses for transportation but sport. I suspect future generations will continue to collect gas engine cars they will also build new ones to race.

My late father collected cars from the 1920's. Their engines used leaded gasoline and right now in our metro area of a half million people there is a single station that sells it. I suspect that will also be true for no lead some day.