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| NMS sits in an Exocet Front hood not shown. |
We're here live at the NMS Center for Unknown Licensed Liveries (NMSCULL) with the unveiling of a new NMS-Racing project proposal. Code named M2E, let's join the announcement, already in progress.
(NMS Spokesperson) Good morning, and welcome to the NMS HQ. Today, we are unveiling not just a new project car, but an entire project that will involve three different cars. We're titling this as PROJECT M2E, and will explain the name as we go along. This project will have four distinct phases. We've creatively titled these PHASE 1, PHASE 2, PHASE 3, and PHASE D. One of the guys in charge of titles isn't very good with numbers, so somewhere along the way the phase after PHASE 3 became PHASE D. Anyway...
PHASE 1: This is ground zero for M2E, and will provide the critical funding to proceed with PHASES 2 throughD. In PHASE 1, NMS will sell the current car number 77, which is a 2009 Porsche Cayman. The budget and number crunching team thinks that the math adds up so that we'll be able to proceed to PHASE 2. If their math is wrong, then we'll be transitioning to the "eat ramen and drink water" PHASE.
PHASE 2: With the proceeds of PHASE 1, NMS will purchase a 1990-2005 Miata Mazda. Sure, sure, we all know that NMS has run three previous Mazdas in the past, but this time will be different! Trust me, you'll see. Also, never trust anyone that says "Trust me!" Starting with a Miata gives us the letter "M" in the project M2E name.
PHASE 3: This is the real secret-weapon-double-probation-ghost-protocol part of this project, and this is where we take a RUNNING Miata, and disassemble it. At first we thought we'd just "take it apart," but the IT and Engineering parts of NMS say that "disassembling" is even better than "taking apart." Go figure. Hey, if nothing else, it's a bigger word, so maybe we can use it in the New York Times Spelling Bee or Scrabble some time. This gives us the 2 in the name, where 2 stands for "to" because we're turning a Miata into something else. Pretty creative, huh?
PHASE D: Purchase an Exomotive Exocet kit over in Atlanta, and then combine the Miata major parts (engine, transmission, suspension, etc) with the Exocet tube frame to make a 1,500 pound racecar. And that wraps up the nomenclature part of our briefing, turning a Miata inTO an Exocet! We probably spent a good 10 seconds thinking of this great name too!
The Exocet people have been building these kits for quite a while, and how else do you make a Miata even better than by reducing the weight? OK, yeah, more power is an option, so maybe we'll throw in a turbo, but the initial NMS M2E plan will focus on getting the Exocet to run, and then see how it drives in autocross and on track. The NMS Prediction Department estimates that project M2E will wrap up sometime in the middle of 2027, so stay tuned!
You can read all about the Exocet at their website here: EXOMOTIVE EXOCET USA
