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It is November and Ford vice president of design J Mays is deliberately coy. A call comes: ``Let's meet in front of Ford's design rotunda. Tomorrow at 5 p.m. I'll be in a black Land Rover. Leave your car and get in. I want to show you something.''
Um, sure. One of the first rules of automotive journalism is listen to the guy with the crayons. Will Mays spill his guts or is he just aiming to keep a low profile while with a scribe? Following the recent corporate keelhauling, it might be both.
Mays scoops us up and it's off to destination unknown. ``They're photographing the car,'' he says quickly. ``I want you to see it before the sun sets. It's yellow ...