The perks of working for car companies...

[madmelon]

Unfortunately, today I had to attend the funeral of a mate from my uni racing team. A top bloke in every way imaginable but especially a wickedly smart engineer. As a second year student he designed the suspension for our 2009 race car in a little over 2 weeks last year. He also did a marvellous job designing the suspension for this years car which is soon to go into production.

Two of the people attending his funeral were linked closely to his role on the team- the 2009 team leader, now working for Ford and Pat Clarke, a highly respected engineer currently working for Hyundai Australia. These two gents turned up in cars not yet released in the Australian Market- the new Ford Fiesta (Didn't sight it, was just told about him driving it) and the Hyundai i45. I guess driving brand new cars around the country (To Canberra from Melbourne and Sydney respectively) is one of the perks of working for car companies as engineers.

The Hyundai actually looked really smart from the back but it's almost as ugly as a Ssanyong Stavic or similar when looking at the front I rekon. Still FWD of course.