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to work around

the appearance first

just trying to get

the pieces to fit.

A thousand details

that are behind every tiny,

little thing you see,

that is what makes a great car.

Every single part

of the car is new,

2,000-plus parts that

have to be designed,

developed,

tested, and assembled.

Like real textures,

wheel covers...

- Door handles...

- Engines, wheel base...

- Rear view mirror.

- ...Plates...

All those things have

to be designed in that product.

And remember, you have to make

these cars in their thousands.

It's really complicated,

making sure

that we design the vehicle

so that the people

who have to put the car together

can do it easily.

If you said to me,

"what's

the most important thing

your great-grandfather

Henry Ford ever did?"

I would say to you

the movie "assembly line."

That's what really took

the car business

from a cottage industry

to what we are today.

There are tremendous changes

being made in the technology.

What hasn't changed

is the process.

What we call the job 1 day,

it's really the finish line

for the whole team

and that's when

the 2015 mustang launches.

Job 1 is mass production.

It's really a culmination of

how everything comes together.

Because as you can imagine,

being a chief engineer,

when you start

shipping vehicles,

that's probably the biggest

moment of your career.

When the first set of customers

get in the car,

the goal that I set out

several years ago

will have been achieved.

But job 1 for us is--

that's when the car's

gonna start shipping out

on trains and on car carriers,

and they're gonna go to real

people in people's driveways,

and that's what job 1

really is.

Now that's the most expensive

way to solve an issue.

What I wanna work through

the next couple days

is the more efficient way

of solving the issue, right?

All right.

And chief made the night

schedule last night

before the director called,

unless you changed your schedule.

- No, no, no, that's fine.

- The answer was open.

I have to pick up the kids

tonight so I will be available,

I just have to get mobile

at some point.

So anyway, I will join you

for a little bit.

- You're coming to see me?

- For a few minutes.

Morning, morning, morning.

Don't give me that look.

Morning, everybody.

So okay up in this

a-pillar joint here.

- Yeah?

- There's an air leak.

Through here,

there's a water leak

and then we had the squeak

up here at the top

of the Cal-top

to the a pillar.

Other than that, this was the

best joint we've ever designed.

You know, you guys are freaking all

these people out with the cameras.

Seriously, they--

they are, like, just beyond.

We're just gonna go

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