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Old 05-13-2009, 01:59 AM   #27 (permalink)
Piwoslaw
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Well, I just think if you can become notorious for reverse engineering the aero of production vehicles and making significant improvements on what they already paid their engineers to do... and all the while make it look GOOD and work well, then basically that is a great selling point if you are trying to get yourself a job. Right?
Their engineers already did it, but then the design guys took over and messed everything up. That's why super-aero, ultra-FE prototypes get watered down by the time they hit the production line: Someone says "Nobody's gonna buy an efficient, weird looking car. Let's turn it into a typical, ugly, inefficient gas guzzler and ask the government to lower gas prices. BTW, Big Oil: make your checks to..."
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