Why? It does not mesh with the Honda brand image in the US. It needs to be an Acura. That’s like branding an R8 as a VW.

You need to size the hole to the studs, You do that by determining the twist out force. Do you have an extra hub to test with?

The XJ-S uses studs right? Be extremely careful with your hole sizes otherwise you can put excess stress on the hub flange or not get enough knurl engagement to keep the stud from moving. / I design and manufacture wheel studs, among other things.

How do you differentiate between navigation, texting and catching my phone falling out of the mount?

Whoever built that manifold has no idea what they’re doing.

Something old school insight style?

That means very little. Look at this list, the McLaren F1 has only about 1/2 the stiffness of a modern car. That means it’s inferior right?

You are misinformed. It’s a modern car, the crash performance is obviously superior to an older design like the SAAB.

The Veloster got a 5 star Euro NCAP rating.

I grew up driving mechanical fuel injected CIS/CIS-E cars. I’ve never been able to find something that had that same type of telepathic response outside of sport bikes. I’m not talking raw power, just response to your right foot.

The modern DI turbo motors, while tuned very well, come off as sluggish by comparison. I…

The V12 is heavier, lazier, makes pretty much the same power and is a maintenance headache. Unless you want it just for the V12 moniker the straight 6 is by far the better engine.

The Fiesta ST is the better drivers car all around. It’s like a modern Mk2 GTI handling wise. The turbo 4 is not everyone’s favorite but short of going NA it’s beautiful.

I bought mine for $500. It needs $1200 to be track ready but that’s no big deal.

e36s are still cheaper and more plentiful than the e46 at this point so that’s part of it. They’re very well understood cars, the parts bin is fully stocked and they don’t have any of the fancy to get in the way.

How many thousand airframes have they delivered?

You’re not a pilot, I get that. However, can’t you see how absurdly impracticable this is. Inevitable transportation damage alone makes this a terrible idea.

This is a solution to a problem that does not exist.

If you have to trailer your airplane you’re doing it wrong.

Which is how the whole industry works...

Seriously? What decade do you live in?

I’m not going to keep my jobs if I don’t pick up “Because I’m in the car.”. Bluetooth works great, it’s more than safe enough.

It’s still more complex and a bit less user friendly than google maps. If my mom needs directions I tell her to navigate with google maps, waze builds in more driver load which in turn provides useful information for some but is extraneous for the vast majority.

As you well know 3D printing for most common objects will only save you money if prototype tooling is very very expensive or it has impossible to machine closed internal geometry (frequency traps)