Exocet New Zealand, based in Palmerston North, is the exclusive manufacturer of the Exocet kit car in New Zealand. Licensed by the UK’s Mills Extreme Vehicles (MEV), Exocet NZ began local production in 2011 after adapting the original design to meet New Zealand's Low Volume Vehicle Technical Association (LVVTA) certification standards. The Exocet is an exo-skeletal, road-legal kit car built around the first-generation Mazda MX-5 (1989–2004),…