Quote Originally Posted by Simmi View Post
There wasn't a single bit of anti-Makinen sentiment in my post. I massively want this programme to succeed. You have to admit though this is far from the normal route for a manufacturer programme. This is the world's biggest car manufacturer and they are looking at moving into the local kindergarten. Okay, shiny facilities are not everything - look at how McLaren/Honda F'd up their latest car. But the amount of control Tommi has been handed here seems almost unprecedented.

I truly hope it works because the WRC needs a strong Toyota.
But in a way you said this one could interpret that Tommi wouldn’t be the guy to do it.

Could you please then explain what you mean what you said.

“Tommi clearly sold Toyoda-san the dream over some long evenings in the sauna. Now he's got to actually produce.

It really seems like a maverick move for what is a major manufacturer programme. Because right now it just seems like Tommi is getting his mates together.”

Imo it isn’t normal “I wonder why Tommi Mäkinen got the deal”.

And yes, I was surprised about Tommi getting the deal. But giving employees (in this case Tommi) freedom to design their own tasks and giving them responsibility, increase the motivation to do a good job. The communications can also be more remote compared to earlier days. In earlier days communication was face to face, today communication can be screen to screen. But imo face to face is the best way of communication even today.

They are not looking to move into a local kindergarten. The building where the kindergarten is, is Tommi’s, the Jyväskylä city’s kindergarten are there as Tommi’s tenants. He didn’t need such big premises when the demand for N group car decreased, which they build about 30 in the best days.

As I said earlier they not need any big premises in the beginning because it’s most about the design of the car to the 2017 regulations and the assembling of few test units. Few guys designing the car with CAD and with simulation programs and sending the result of the designs to a fabricator of the parts.

I think that Mirek as a CAD designer could give a more professional approach what is possible with the current CAD design programs. I.e. design of a part, the program creates a list of needed materials and a parts list, sending the file to the fabricator’s CNC lathe of the part and start the fabrication of the part. Is it possible, I don’t know?