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standpoint as an engineering project. He attended the
meetings simply because his boss Matsubara told him,
"Think about how to position this G21 project within the
company, in case the organization is to be reestablished as
an official development group in the future."
Nevertheless, 1993 was coming to its end, and it was
time for the G21 project team to present a conclusion.
From time to time, Kubochi, Motonami, and Matsubara
reported to Executive Vice President Kimbara and others,
who were the founding fathers of the G21 project. However,
the team was facing a deadline in preparing a final report to
be presented to interested Board members as a concluding
activity. for 1993.
The first progress report
The meeting was held at the Vehicle Design Review
Room on the third floor of the Ninth Engineering
Building in Toyota City. The Design Review Room is
generally used for reviewing the design, by bringing the actual
car into the room. About thirty people including Executive
VP Kimbara and Member of the Board Masami Konishi
(now Chairman of Fujitsu Ten Ltd.) attended the meeting.
Since the G21 project worked on concepts and did not
have an actual car, the team prepared a half-scale design
blueprint and a summary. Ogiso had assumed that his
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