<VV> "sealed" trunks

[Jim Burkhard]

mhicks130 at cox.net wrote:
> Uh, yeah, right - deciding to put in a trunk mat is a typical engineering function....
> 
> More likely sales and marketing, a department well known for their intelligence.
> 

Having formerly been a GM engineer for over 12 years, I can 
counter this a bit.

It's possible that some product planner may have said they 
wanted a "trunk mat" , but I can assure you that it probably 
was an engineering function who specified exactly what kind 
of mat (cheap non-breathable rubber in this case) would be 
used.  Likewise for the washer bottle clip and the door 
latch striker plate and the rear shelf cardboard... 
Certainly, they may have had multiple items under their 
responsibility, but there is an engineer for EVERYTHING, 
even the non-glamourous stuff. I they design even stuff like 
this wrong, or specify the wrong materials or processes, bad 
things (like rust) can happen.

Jim Burkhard