Sentences with phrase «skunkworks project»

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.

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.

-- David Taggart, former Lockheed Skunkworks Project Manager, Co-Founder and former Chief Technical Officer, HyperCar (the spinoff from the Rocky Mountain Institute, which then became Fiberforge), chaired by Amory Lovins

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of the most innovative media partnerships so far was spurred by a skunkworks project that Schmidt, the media group manager, created for ESPN's X Games.

When Don Tapscott's The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of the Networked Economy was published in 1994, travel website Expedia was just a skunkworks project within Microsoft.

A skunkworks project from Nissan and RML, engineers junked the crossover's supermini - based powertrain for the 3.8 - litre, twin - turbocharged V6 and all - wheel drive system from the ballistic Nissan GT - R.

However, a «skunkworks project» engineering team within Mazda kept the development of the 13B - MSP alive using an elongated MX - 5 Miata chassis known internally as «gokiburi - ka», or «coachroach car» translated to English, eventually catching the attention of management, which was by then heavily influenced by Ford.

Rather than some skunkworks project, the B - Class Electric Drive felt like a finished car ready for the showroom floor.

The skunkworks project kicked off shortly after the Trailblazer's launch in 2002.

Once in a blue moon, Corvette celebrates its heritage by giving us the Grand Sport — a model that started out as a skunkworks project behind GMs back to make a standard «Vette race - ready.

We're not just doing this because we saw what happened with Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, and the other oldies around here that are making great comebacks; we were already working on Carmageddon: Reincarnation as a skunkworks project.

We have this skunkworks project inside of Fastcase.

TipTalk, one of the skunkworks projects out of Samsung's Creative Lab on show at CES 2016 this week, does just that, however.