Heavy, over priced and over engineered.
Why do they feel they are at the forefront of engineering technology?
Are you an engineer working in his area of manufacturing? I understand that the motors designed by Dyson, or at least his engineers, are properly cutting edge, and he’s employing a huge number of people in Malmesbury, and has just opened a new design university: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/04/james-dyson-addresses-engineering-skills-gap-with-university-launch
The Dyson Institute of Technology – which will be based at Dyson’s campus in Wiltshire – will take its first 25 students in September next year. As part of the course, students will not pay any fees, be handed a salary and work alongside Dyson engineers on upcoming products.
What that article doesn’t say is that 850+ students applied for th 25 places on the course, and 33 were actually accepted, they will receive a starting salary of £15,500/year, rising each year, and they’ll leave higher education dept-free.
Dyson must be doing something right, if he can afford to set up a facility like this, and it can only benefit the future of design development in the UK.
People like VW spend more on door seals and infotainment systems than they do on the oily bits that make the car move! (and they’ve had 30 or 40 years of experience making their cars a little bit better every year)
Since when has any car manufacturer spent any money on infotainment systems? They’re all bought in from Sony, Alpine, or any one of a number of outside companies. Including Naim, if you’re Bentley.
And I’ll bet that the money Mazda have put into their new compression/ignition petrol engine and the new monocoque body to put it in exceeds by some margin what’s spent on door seals, which again are OEM items supplied by third-party manufacturers.