Bullet Cars was an Australian low-volume sports-car manufacturer that developed high-performance roadsters from the Mazda MX-5 platform. The company was founded in 1996 by John Bettini as Bullet Supercars Australia. Early cars used turbocharged Mazda rotary engines in heavily modified first-generation MX-5s with a separate spaceframe chassis and fibreglass body components. A later V8 phase began in the late 1990s, first with a Rover-derived…