1)I highly doubt there is design flaws in a hand built special edition engine. 2)The reason it is a special edition is because they don't make cobras anymore, so how can there be design flaws for the cobras being built in the next couple of years. 3)You can still buy them from Dupont, they were being sold for 70k to people (viper is 70 and up) retail and those people are selling them for 80k, I have seen alot of them for sale in dupont.