Those 'handcrafted by' signatures on expensive engines don't mean what you think.
, which bore a plaque on its supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 that read “Handcrafted by Anthony Terry, Performance Build Center, USA.” There were no noticeable fingerprints on this hulking motor. Clearly, not one single component of this engine was actually built by hand. Mr. Terry fashioned neither connecting rods nor camshafts out of blocks of aluminum. The engine was assembled by one man, in the vein of many other high-performance powerplants from AMG, Ford, and the like.
Consider the creations of the absurdist inventor Simone Giertz. Inspired as a young woman by the Disney character Gyro Gearloose, today Giertz is known for building a machine that applies lipstick to your lips for you, among many other wonderfully unnecessary gizmos. If you push the button that turns on the machine that puts the lipstick on your lips, are you putting on lipstick by hand? You did, after all, choose the cherry-red hue.
“There’s a pretty easy answer to that,” says Bryan Lee, who oversees the handbuilt engine process at Cadillac’s Performance Build Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky. “The nameplate you see on these engines is a sense of pride where one individual built that engine from the beginning to the end. Every single inspection, every single test was done by a single individual.
We’ll allow a “handcrafted” designation for cars like the Splinter. Harmon personally carved it from wood, by hand. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io
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