The AREX was built as a real car, not just a futuristic sketch. We worked through the fundamentals first: seating position, roofline, headroom, and overall packaging, then shaped the body in clay and carried the concept into a finished twin-turbo coupe. That matters because good performance design starts with how the driver fits in the car and how the body is resolved around real mechanical needs, not just looks. The result was a forward-looking Banks project that tied design, packaging, and boosted power together from the beginning.
The discussion begins with a seating-position check at roughly a 30-degree seatback angle. The goal is to evaluate available headroom in that posture rather than simply judging the shape of the cabin visually.
The stated target is to provide enough headroom for a taller occupant, specifically someone around 6 feet 5 inches to 6 feet 6 inches tall. That requirement is presented as a practical design benchmark, implying that the interior should remain usable for very tall drivers even in a sport-oriented vehicle layout.
The speakers note that most sports cars do not offer that kind of headroom. The implication is that low rooflines and aggressive seating positions often compromise tall-driver accommodation, making headroom a recurring packaging problem in performance-car design.
The conversation then pivots from occupant packaging to airflow. One speaker explicitly says they are now talking about air, signaling a move away from the seating and headroom topic and into a discussion related to ventilation or air-management concepts.
The final remark suggests a comparison between air and water, though the statement is fragmentary. The intended point appears to be that the speaker is thinking in fluid-flow terms, treating air behavior in a way analogous to water for purposes of explanation or visualization.