Doctrine
Seven rules. None of them are aspirations — they are the working constraints the fleet is actually built under, several of them written down only after the shortcut was taken and the work was lost. They are stated as prohibitions because that is how they operate.
A body can look resolved from a fixed three-quarter angle and fall apart the moment it moves. So nothing is signed off in a modelling window. It goes into the simulator, gets driven, and is judged there — at speed, in changing light, from the seat. The render comes after the verdict, not before it.
What it costs
It is far slower. A change that takes ten minutes to model takes an hour to judge properly.
Each car is assembled from individual parts — panels, arches, lamps, mechanicals — and edited that way. Re-exporting a body in one pass is faster and it silently destroys the mechanical package underneath: the suspension, the brakes, the engine bay, hundreds of parts that took months.
What it costs
Learned the hard way, more than once. The rule exists because the shortcut was taken and the work was lost.
The test of a panel is the shape of the light travelling across it. If a surface needs a crease, a vent or a badge to look intentional, the surface is wrong. This is why so much of the fleet is shown in black or near-black: black hides nothing, it only shows the highlight.
What it costs
Black is the least forgiving finish there is. Every flat spot shows.
Simulating the full fleet around a long, difficult circuit produced one clear result: the fast cars were not the powerful ones. Beyond a point, added output stops buying time and starts costing it. Mechanical grip, mass and balance dominate. The specifications are written in that order.
What it costs
It makes the headline numbers less impressive than they could be.
Chrome, badging and applied trim are the cheapest way to make a body look expensive and the fastest way to date it. The default across the fleet is deleted: no bright surrounds, no ornament, one accent colour used once. The Summit carries none at all.
What it costs
It removes the easy route to 'premium'. The shape has to carry it alone.
Two cars in this fleet have published figures, because two cars have specification sheets behind them. The other thirteen read 'in development'. It would take an afternoon to fill those blanks with numbers nobody could check — which is exactly why they stay blank.
What it costs
Thirteen cars look less finished on paper than competitors that simply made theirs up.
Every car on this site carries its real engineering depth and the real condition of its body. Where a render would flatter a car past what exists, it is withheld and the plate is left empty. The company is more useful described accurately than described well.
What it costs
It is a strange thing to lead with. It is also the only durable advantage a company this size has.
Rule 06, in numbers
Not missing. Empty. Every one of those cars could be given a horsepower figure this afternoon and no reader could check it. The two cars that do carry numbers carry them because there is a specification sheet behind them — and even those are labelled as design targets, because nothing has been on a dynamometer.
The standing test
Would this still be true if someone with a lift, a scale and a dyno came to check it?
Everything published about these cars has to survive that question. Most of what a car company would normally say at this stage does not.
