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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
Have you seen the Chevy 100 documentary? They kinda explain why they camo cars now.
Back in the 50s, a GM designer on his lunch break walked by Chrysler engineering and saw their prototypes sitting in the middle of a parking lot. He got his coworkers to run over and look at them as well and promptly scrapped all the GM designs for that year and started from scratch.
That doesn't exactly work in today's world but you still don't want to let the competition see what you're planning and give them a head start.
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It was interesting on Mad Men when the firm was trying to win the GM contact for Camaro. They had to advertise for a car they have never seen.