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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Didn't say he was less of a gearhead. Said he wasn't the original person with the dream just the guy that lead the team to make it happen.
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Agreed. 'Automotive god' is reserved for the few people who saw their designs from original spark out to to the successful end and without whose active engineering input to the development process would have resulted in failure...Porsche, Chapman, Shelby, McLaren, etc. Tada is certainly a huge enthusiast - I don't take that away from him, and it certainly helped his pitch to the upstairs suits - but in the big picture is a regular corporate guy who has a mortgage like everyone else.