Sentences with word «skunkworks»

Truth be told, this was more of skunkworks project worked on by passionate engineers who created a Mustang to bridge the gap between the Performance Pack 1 and the GT350.

Amazon has a secret skunkworks group devoted to health tech.

Outside of my legal practice, I also run a legal technology consulting business, Appropriate Legal Technology, and am the Technical Director of Skunkworks Creative Group.

As for the internal combustion engine, it comes straight from Mercedes - AMG High Performance Powertrains, the Brixworth, England - based skunkworks team that builds Mercedes» F1 powerplants.

It's been fabulous working with Doug and his team at Skunkworks Creative Group and I'm very happy with the new blog format and design.

The new skunkworks division is already tasked with creating 12 new performance models in the next five years, possibly including the new Focus RS, the Fiesta ST, and F - 150 Raptor.

Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division sounds very much like a clandestine organization secretly engineering skunkwork projects that would make the SR71 Blackbird look quaint in comparison.

Christensen observes that companies that survive and thrive in buyers» market do so by establishing skunkworks with the intention of «killing the mother ship» and disrupting themselves.

My friend Doug Jasinski at Skunkworks here in Vancouver spoke on Social Media for Lawyers (powerpoint link) at yesterday's Vancouver LMA lunch.

Like the ultra-performance cars from Chevrolet and Dodge, future collectibles from Ford are the cars that have been breathed on by skunkworks operations deep inside the same company that builds Fusions.

Waraniak is equally at home in an aerospace skunkworks in Pico Rivera, California, a boardroom in Mumbai, India, on a motocross track in Buchanan, Michigan, or on the Vehicle Technology Center stage at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas.

Talk about history — Kar Kraft essentially served as Ford's performance and race engineering skunkworks for the better portion of the 1960s, and helped develop both the road - going and racing Boss 302s back in the day.

With no tech background himself, Couture hired an outside firm to help staff a new skunkworks, which took the name Smartika.

TD was an early adopter of the innovation lab model, tasking a Kitchener - based skunkworks with proactively disrupting its own business

And at that point the idea to go back to Le Mans with a Mustang was canned, and replaced with a top secret skunkworks — Project Silver — to build an all - new GT to take to Le Mans, plus a corresponding road car to go with it.

Throw in the freedom afforded by low - volume runs of factory - built skunkworks specials and you find that the hot hatch is enjoying a golden age.

Ford said its Performance skunkworks developed the Winter Wheel & Tire Package so the most demanding Focus customers can be properly outfitted for winter driving conditions.

David Taggart, President of Interleaf Composites Engineering, metallurgical engineer, advanced composite materials expert, co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer, Hypercar (now Fiberforge), former Lockheed Skunkworks Project Manager.

It's a special skunkworks race concept that will be shared with attendees to the SEMA Show tomorrow, November 1st.

Entire chapters of our story will be left out — there will be no mention of those computer - vision and machine - learning skunkworks projects, or the weeks of teeth - gnashing before we bet the company on mobile.

But some of its most innovative ideas came from a Toronto skunkworks

Self - driving cars, contact lens that measure blood sugar, and giant balloons that beam Internet connections to everyone below are just some of the so - called moonshots that have emerged from the secretive skunkworks, known as X.

«I have seen people manage it by always having at least one project they are passionate about, even if it's an after - hours, skunkworks kind of project to which they devote only a few hours per week.

Schools need skunkworks groups — groups that are independent of the collective beliefs and behaviors of the dominant culture.

Toyota's skunkworks recently worked its magic on the Yaris GRMN, a new supercharged hot hatch that was launched earlier this year in Europe.

For the first board, Land Rover teamed up with Northern Ireland's Skunkworks Surf Co. and English pro surfer Lucy Campbell, the current English Open Champion.

Speaking to our sister title Auto Express, boss of Mercedes in - house skunkworks AMG, Tobias Moers, has revealed the replacement for the range - topping A-class will see power eclipse 400bhp.

I've known Turner for years and first met him when he was at Lotus (he had two stints at the Norfolk company), where he worked on the Corvette ZR1 engine, Lotus's own V8 and numerous skunkworks projects, including a test engine nicknamed Omnivore for its ability to run on virtually any fuel, and an optical engine that allowed the combustion process to be observed through a transparent cylinder.

This is another low - volume skunkworks production from the team at Special Vehicle Operations, Jaguar Land Rover's bespoke outfitters in Ryton - on - Dunsmore, Warwickshire.

An Alfa Skunkworks of engineers, designers and stylists has developed a new rear - wheel - / all - wheel - drive platform called Giorgio for the models.

Only 250 will be made by Jaguar's Special Vehicle Operations skunkworks with deliveries scheduled to commence in mid-2015.

This hot - rod version of Jaguar's XE small sedan is one of those rare cars that focuses purely on performance, and the team at Jag's Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) skunkworks doesn't seem to want to let it go.

Instead of throwing a lot of go - quick goodies into a Golf, the VW skunkworks had its way with a Jetta.

The two Italian premium brands are intimately connected, with the Alfa Romeo engineering skunkworks responsible for the development of the rear - drive Giulia architecture based inside Maserati's Modena headquarters complex.

Chrysler may have its back against the wall, but that hasn't stopped its SRT skunkworks team churning out what is easily the most politically incorrect — and, as a result, wonderfully desirable — ...

After showing off this HP «slate» at CES in 2010 (which never shipped), and having a promising skunkworks tablet project «Courier» go to junk, Microsoft is in trouble.

Amazon is planning on increasing the number of researchers and developers at its Lab126 skunkworks.

Jeremy Hessing - Lewis at Skunkworks says that in highly competitive legal niches, «unfortunately, the trend is to sacrifice everything for the sake of SEO.»

But after nearly four years of skunkworks development, the search giant pulled back the curtain on Glass» next chapter: An industrial, corporate version called Google Glass Enterprise Edition.

Excitement about Google's skunkworks Fuchsia OS is building on Reddit and elsewhere on the web, and of course that's leading to lots of chatter about Google's plans for the platform.

Tango had a notable pedigree at Google, too: In 2012, it was the first graduate from Google X, the search giant's skunkworks program (now known simply as X).

Then, in 2015, it became the first graduate from Google ATAP, the search giant's other skunkworks.

As of last month, the Ara team is no longer part of the ATAP skunkworks; it now reports directly to Rick Osterloh, the head of Google's new hardware division and a recent transplant from Motorola.

Whether it's enough for Microsoft to continue the project when it takes control of Nokia's phone business imminently remains to be seen, though there are some good reasons why the company might allow an Android - loving skunkworks to keep developing.

Google has given up on Project Ara, another of the company's more intriguing skunkworks projects shuttered without making the big waves the initial hullabaloo promised.