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17-05-2016, 04:38 PM | #1 | ||
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"A GEELONG start-up company has won a multi-million dollar contract to export lightweight wheels for the fastest and most expensive Ford supercar ever made.
Detroit executives confirmed overnight the $500,000 Ferrari-fighting Ford GT will be fitted with wheels made in Geelong with world-first technology. Carbon Revolution is one of 63 companies that will continue to supply parts to Ford after the Broadmeadows and Geelong factories close in October 2016. Last year the company — which started in an old shearing shed but now has a production and research facility on the Deakin University campus — won a contract to supply wheels for a limited edition Ford Mustang. Following that success, it has now been given responsibility to supply wheels for Ford’s most expensive car of all time. The wheel technology was previously used in Formula One motor racing and this is its first application on road cars. “No-one has been able to do what we’ve been able to do,” the chief executive officer of Carbon Revolution, Jake Dingle, told News Corp Australia in October 2015. “Even the aerospace industry couldn’t figure out a way to do it.” Ford heard about the start-up company by chance three years ago, and then began torture testing the wheels, including hitting pot holes at 100km/h to see if they would shatter. “A lot of people think they’re going to turn to dust when they hit a pothole, but these wheels are stronger than alloy wheels,” said Jamal Hameedi, the global head of Ford Performance, at the opening of the Geelong facility last year. “This shows Ford is prepared to go to the ends of the earth to get an advantage over our competitors,” he said." http://www.news.com.au/finance/busin...4cc648dbd7533f
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17-05-2016, 04:56 PM | #2 | ||
bitch lasagne
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That's brilliant, I've seen the production process for the wheels and it's almost artistic.
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