“The way I make things is
such that I create the idea and then develop engineering drawings created on a
CAD/CAM system for rapid prototyping. This obviously saves time and money and
minimizes the amount of physical copies that are made with errors. Mistakes are
excruciatingly expensive, often being 4 or 5 figure dollar mistakes.
“Some people will ask me ‘why
don’t you make more cars per year,’ and they don’t seem to understand how
‘mission impossible’ it is to even build a car in the first place, without a
factory. In this kind of project you’re not accessing pre-created parts.
One-offs are prototypes. That is what a prototype is.
“To try to keep costs down I
do as much as I can myself, by hand. A body designer, a chassis engineer, all
require different materials for every part of the car. But doing as much as
possible myself also maintains a level of purity. Mass-produced cars are
bastardized and lack harmony. But a beautiful design must have symphonic
purity. All parts and areas must merge with one another. My cars must exude the
sensibility of a super-tuned Stradivarius violin. Look at the old Ferraris, the
old Bugattis –they were masterpieces of art and engineering. There were no
modern factories in those days; there were just workshops, a lost practice
today. As the saying goes ‘too many cooks spoil the broth.”
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