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Originally Posted by kevino
Toyota spent 1.1 billion yen on research and development.
Five per cent up on 2021 which was five per cent up on 2020 etc
Tesla Vw and Gm were the top 3 spenders on r and d I guess as a per centage of sales.
And Jim Farley came out this week to say Ford needs 25 per cent more engineers than other car brands to get the same results.
Having a crack at his engineers at the same time as he cuts FOE engineering and pushes back work from there to the USA.
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Theres a difference between overall R&D spend and what's allocated to a particular model though.
Toyota have many more offerings to spread their development costs over than some competitors.
IMO Americans have never been efficient at anything be it on the battlefield or in vehicle manufacture, just throw weight of numbers at it until you get a result, hence GM powering HSV's with 7L pushrod engines whilst we engineered a supercharger on to a DOHC 5L for the same or better result.
If it wasn't for Aussie input the Ranger as we know it wouldn't be a thing at all.