Comment by snuze

“Tesla has spent a lot of resources reinventing car manufacturing and yet they can't produce a vehicle that meets their needs.” Where are you getting this information? Design and manufacturing influence one another. None of the “leaders” in automotive space outsource their design or manufacturing. You need to control and master both to compete in this space. Perhaps you can take the Apple route and outsource the labor (Foxconn), but Apple still controls much of the manufacturing process such as introducing friction-stir welding to shrink the iMac or introducing unibody aluminum machining to the MacBooks and iPhones.