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geo.stewart @ Jul 9th 2008 9:41AM
instrumental in the effort to redesign Chrysler's mid-sized cars
the best that can be said is he was instrumental in getting out the crap that is the avenger and sebring.
Good LUCK, Tesla!
I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was hamstrung by the financial environment but I cant imagine a startup is going to be in much better shape.
Sam Abuelsamid @ Jul 9th 2008 9:47AM
Actually Donoughe is not responsible for the existing Avenger, Sebring. He was working on other projects when those were done. He was tasked with the emergency re-design but left two months into that assignment.
larry @ Jul 9th 2008 10:33AM
ho ho, I thought the same thing...Avenger sebrain with the crap strakes on the side.
Now the pestilence is spread to the Ford Flex.
The sides of the flex are loaded with Strakes.
Like trac lights,strakes are for designers that don't know what to do next.
azzo45 @ Jul 9th 2008 12:14PM
Yeah & PT Cruiser designer Bryan Nesbitt was hired away by GM but didn't work on the PT clone, the HHR...
... the Corvette C6 designer puts that car on his resume but sure as h*ll drops the Pontiac Aztek off. (yes same guy is credited with these GM vehicles).
Mid size cars are the current,craptastic Avenger & Sebring. Did this guy work on the previous Stratus & Cirrus midsize cars. Much better looking, but crap brakes, bad auto-stick trans, & a package so bad that there could be no SRT 6 model.
There is obviously some ex Chrysler people already at Tesla, so this guys blunders get brushed under the rug.