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1. "...powered by BMW's 3.2-liter flat-six found in the last generation M3."

I did not know the last M3 had a flat-six. I guess that means the 911 has an inline-six.

Posted at 8:12AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Quattroporte

2. im pretty sure it's the other way around

Posted at 2:39PM on Apr 4th 2008 by e90+335i

3. Sarcasm

Posted at 8:36AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Quattroporte

4. Sorry Quattroporte, you're wrong.

It's inline in the BMWs, but mounted sideways in the Wiesmanns. Hence flat-six.

Posted at 8:45AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Jeff

5. Jeff, I hope that was sarcasm too....

Posted at 8:51AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Iso

6. From the Wiesmann website:
"The Wiesmann roadster offers you pure driving fun, while in-line six-cylinder engines ensure a powerful drive."

Wikipedia's definition of a flat-six:
"A flat-6 or horizontally-opposed-6 is a flat engine with six cylinders arranged horizontally in two banks of three cylinders on each side of a central crankcase. The pistons are mounted to the crankshaft such that opposing pistons move back and forth in opposite directions at the same time, somewhat like a boxing competitor punching their gloves together before a fight, which has led to it being referred to as a boxer engine."

Posted at 9:16AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Quattroporte

7. Sarcasm

Quattroporte, you fell RIGHT into that one. :)

Posted at 9:47AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Jeff

8. Eh...that looked more like a fug up plus cover up on Jeff's part.

I hope these are air cooled, as opposed to my old Porsche's water cooling. Har har...ok joke's over.

Posted at 11:18AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Andrew

9. Frain bart!

Posted at 5:32PM on Apr 4th 2008 by pelliot

10. It's aircooled Andrew. Otherwise all the coolant would run out when they turned the engine sideways.

OK, I'm done too. :)

Posted at 12:25PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Jeff

11. @ Jeff the inline6 of the M3 is NOT installed sideways in the Wiesmann, it sit in the MF3 in exactly the same position as it did in the e46 M3..

http://www.autobild.de/ir_img/146813_9651ac680c.jpg

in the M3 it sit in exactly the same position

http://www.autobild.de/ir_img/531983_59e441cbe3.jpg

Posted at 2:04PM on Apr 4th 2008 by nagmashot

12. Very nice, but I would tuck in the wheels and forego the fender lips to get that classic look. The way it is now? It kinda looks like a cobbled together kit car where the chassis is little too wide for the body. A nice kit car, mind you, but not as cohesive as it could be...

Posted at 8:37AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Eric Bertrand

13. It's not really supposed to look like an old car in the same way a Morgan is. More just that they use many classic design principles for the car so it doesn't look anything like a modern MX-5 or Solstice (since the performance and price certainly is on a different planet) type of car.

I'm just talking about the convertible one by the way, the hardtop/coupe just looks so bad in comparison I pretend it doesn't even exist.

Posted at 8:57AM on Apr 4th 2008 by chris

14. Gosh this is what a Ford Thunderbird could have looked like.

Posted at 8:52AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Ian

15. Nice design, for some reason my first thought is "kit car".... has like a "pieced together" look.. IMO.

Posted at 9:26AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Corey W.

16. Is it possible for a car's styling to be both phallic and vaginal at the same time? It is now!

Posted at 9:27AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Schneegz

17. The roadsters look spectacular. Weismann's done a faantastic job of melding '60s grace with modern proportions, "kit car" interior aside.

That said, I can't imagine needing more than the 3.2-liter *inline* (cough, cough) six in this car. The V10 is insanity.

Posted at 9:46AM on Apr 4th 2008 by PJ

18. Maybe I live around to many rednecks but that blue paint job looks like something I would see here. a can of rustoleum and a roller brush produces the same low gloss blue.

Posted at 9:50AM on Apr 4th 2008 by tio

19. Looks a million times better than that loc-tite blue version. Easy up on the dubs though.

Posted at 10:20AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Hot_Carl

20. I really love these things.
I agree with E.B. on the wheels needing to be set-in just a bit. And I also think that either some flush headlights or some proper, Jaguar C-Type-esque nacelles would enhance and further reduce the kit-car feel of the design.

And it would be great with a 2.5L turbo flat four from...and STi.

Posted at 10:32AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Richard