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Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I don't know if "build" is quite the right word; for sure design isn't. Sounds to me like they assembled a kit car that had a few "issues" thrown in there on purpose.

An exercise in team-work, problem solving, beating the clock, and expanding one's horizons a bit...

It's this car: Faster, better, together ? Building the Wikispeed car - Times Of India

The quoted article reveals what the engineering staff at Lockheed did:

Five Wikispeed cars have been sold but none have been delivered and the purchasers are not expecting them any time soon, if at all. Instead, they treat their purchase as an investment in this startup company. Justice, a business process consultant who always wanted to be an inventor, uses the car as an example of what he calls 'agile management.' He says that Lockheed Martin has bought the car to dismantle and reassemble it to learn the management system that is staff-driven and controlled. Two Midwestern colleges are doing the same.