I call BS without evidence.

That's a good point about the ribs going through the spider—definitely means it was designed that way from the start.

At worst, it was added right after the rest of the ribs were cut. Considering the setup required to get the mold half mounted to the table and zeroed, plus the polishing/texture added when all the machining is done, there's no way this was added after the mold was completed.

As an injection mold tooling engineer, this makes me smile.

Never sold in America, so...

Quelle horreur!

...did you?

He'd have to jump the Caterham team to do that!

Paul, have you been to the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL? If not, I highly recommend it.

I'm emotionally drawn to the M4, but this thing appears to best it by most objective standards.

No, it really isn't. Who would put BBS RKs on a Chrysler 300M? Those are the stock wheels:

They are.

One winter, when I was in high school, I snuck into my girlfriend's house to do the deed. Afterwards, we both fell asleep until around 4AM when I sat bolt upright and realized that I was mere hours away from being caught. I snuck back out, drove home, and realized I didn't have my house key. I slept in my car until my…

No question...this is probably the worst application of a rotary engine ever. Still seems like fun.

I think I'd rather have the Mazda variant:

Just a heads up—I sent you an email about this.

Bottom of its depreciation cycle? Surely you jest. It's $18k! These will be worth half that pretty soon.

Does anyone know if this is the same Takata?

...Brazil?