The Art of Engineering - Building the ultimate car for Larry Ellison

Actually, I was really disappointed. The engine bay shot killed it for me, those K&#38;N filters on top of the rocker covers, silly anodised aluminium pressure fittings and the crazy angled radiator support just lack symmetry and grace.<p>The whole thing says to me that it was a whole lot of work, for not a whole lot of excellence.<p>Still though, I bet it goes faster than my car.

Should be required reading for any future Oracle customer.

Hmm,<p>The whole description seems satisfyingly low tech. The engine is carburetted rather than fuel-injected but it claims a higher power to weight ratio than a Vyron.<p>It's interesting that this company's nearly hand-made cars cost <i>only</i> three times the cost of a factory made Toyota ("Our cars start at $56,995 for the 427 models and $61,995 for the 289 models"). I would have imagined that the ratio was much more - a hand-made Pentium would set you back a lot more than 3X the cost of a factory built one.

How many of you document your work in anything resembling this manner? At my company we do project books, but we also make physical products so there are a lot more physical artifacts to photograph. I can imagine screens of JS getting old after a bit.<p>That said it would be cool to see some documentation of software products. From concept to wireframes to UI to deployment with "director's commentary" on the code along the way.<p>The TapTapTap guys teased at this with their "Convert" UI video:<p><a href="http://www.taptaptap.com/blog/convert-design-evolution/" rel="nofollow">http://www.taptaptap.com/blog/convert-design-evolution/</a><p>If nothing else it would be extremely gratifying for team members and useful training tools for new additions.

The book binding is awesome in and of itself... This particular example is a bit extreme, but if your going to make a physical book, make it worthwhile!

Ultimate car is imho bit of an overstatement, but it's still extremely nice craftsmanship.

$56,995 and no engine, ouch! impressive car but looks like a factoryfive to me

Good grief. This reminds me of the SNL sketch where Trump is giving his wife a diamond encrusted front door. Point being, this is what you come to when you run out of stuff to spend your money on.<p>Why have this thing custom built when you could have a Tesla roadster for substantially less? Probably because he already has two of those I guess. To each his own...

Maybe a little nitpicky, but does the font they used in the book seem a little... plain? Maybe it's just the sans serif that's bothering me, but if I were designing a book about the ultimate engineering anything, I'd want to put similar thought into the font face.

Speaking of building cars for celebrities, Did they ever find a suitable vehicle for Ellen Cleghorne?

Larry's got lots of money from helping implement the coming police state in the USA. Just wait until our next 'terrorist action'