Ninety cars. Hand polished for eleven days before the camellia is laid on by brush.
Ninety cars worldwide
Numbered on the sill
The engine does not change. What changes is how much of it is asked for, and how much weight is taken back out.
Every car is signed off on the road that runs past the works, in whatever weather that morning happens to bring.
There is no screen in the centre of the dashboard. The things you change while driving are the things you can find without looking.
A flat plane crank V8 that pulls to 9,200 rpm with no turbo to wait for. The induction runs through the bulkhead so you hear the intake before the exhaust.
The tree by the paint shop is older than the works. Cars leaving in spring go out under it, which is how the edition got its name.
The paint is the reason the edition is ninety cars and not nine hundred. Everything below is done by hand, by four people.
Six coats of primer, each flatted back by hand until a straight edge held anywhere on the shell shows no light under it.
Three pearl coats within the same shift, because a pearl that dries between passes shows a line you can see from across a room.
The blossom is painted, not applied. Two artists, four days, then lacquered flush so you can run a hand across it and feel nothing.
Allocation opens to registered owners first, on the fourteenth of October. A specification consultation is held at the works in Aichi before any order is confirmed.
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