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The new Ford GT was designed in secrecy. Only people crucial to the project even knew there was a project. Meetings were held after normal working hours and were discussed in code, with no placement on official shared calendars. The design room was locked with a physical padlock rather than the standard keycard, so even operations managers didn’t know there was anything going on in the basement. The engineers risked their relationships by keeping the secret from their friends and spouses. The vast majority of Ford employees only learned about the car a day before its debut at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show...(more)
http://www.hotrod.com/features/1602-far-from-failure-what-racing-the-gt-does-for-ford/
The new Ford GT was designed in secrecy. Only people crucial to the project even knew there was a project. Meetings were held after normal working hours and were discussed in code, with no placement on official shared calendars. The design room was locked with a physical padlock rather than the standard keycard, so even operations managers didn’t know there was anything going on in the basement. The engineers risked their relationships by keeping the secret from their friends and spouses. The vast majority of Ford employees only learned about the car a day before its debut at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show...(more)
http://www.hotrod.com/features/1602-far-from-failure-what-racing-the-gt-does-for-ford/