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Originally Posted by Scalded Dog
Don't forget the 48V ride stability hoozijigger.
And 130 (133?) hours to build by hand... that seems really damn quick. And what does that even mean? Does that count the manufacture of each part? The parts boy getting a fender from section 15, the bolts from section 25, and a wrench from the box, or just the time actually turning the wrench? Does it count the stitching time for the leather, or the tanning time for said hide? How 'bout the polishing of the wood dash? 130 hours seems like a really random number, that could be broadly interpreted in an infinite number of ways.
If the clock--- which one apparently has to remember to wind, 'cause that's not automatic--- costs more than my house, then I'm sure I will decline THAT option.
And that whole article never did tell me if it's four- wheel- drive or not...
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Assembly time of a vehicle, I always figured, is the work-hours spent from when the plant makes their first stampings out of sheet metal (or, if those are shipped in from elsewhere, when the first two pieces are joined together) until it drives out of the factory as a finished unit. Downtime over night between shifts doesn't count. 130 hours is astonishingly slow for automobile production. Unless I'm way off, thats roughly 10x longer than it takes to crank out a normal mass produced car. I could very well be wrong though. We need Number 3 in here ... he'll know for sure.
It definitely doesn't count all the material processing time (ie, leather tanning). If you go that far, why not go back to when the cow from which the leather came was born? Or when the tree that the wooden dash was made from was planted?
Can 130 hours be interpreted countless ways? Absolutely. But automotive engineers probably only have a couple interpretations.