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DOSSIER: Norman H. Garrett III of GRE, LLC
With three of them in Norman
Garrett's personal fleet, you
could call him Miata Man. The
Mazda sports car's engineering
has his fingerprints all over it.
"I had gone to Georgia Tech
to learn how to design
racecars, and in my first month
at Mazda I began working on a
literal blank sheet of paper for
the design of the first Miata,"
the 40-year SAE Member told
Norman Garrett III with Chin, Hayashi-san, and Hall by the final
Update. "Now it is the most
Miata clay model from Mazda's Irvine Studio.
raced car in the world, with
At the engineering consulting firm that
over 1.1 million units sold. So
he owns, GRE, LLC, "we help companies
that's very satisfying."
with their technology transfer efforts into
He was the first American engineer hired
various markets." In addition to that,
by Mazda's Design Studio in Southern
Garrett is an adjunct professor at the
California.
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
"The Miata design team (in the U.S. and
Motorsports Engineering School, teaching
in Japan) for this car had such distilled
automotive engineering classes to
passion that became the car's genetic
graduates and undergraduates.
code, and the customers responded to a
He has worked in six corporate jobs and
car built with real focus and emotion,"
done six start up companies in the past
Garrett said. "This is rare for a company to
four decades.
achieve with a physical product. The
To hear more of Garrett's engineering
lessons learned in the Miata project
journey, read on.
became a guiding light for future Mazda
products, evident today in their product
What is the most interesting activity that
line. The methods for capturing creative
you are engaged in at the moment?
impulses in a design team and getting
I've been tuning and racing engines for
these harnessed into a great product is
decades, and never really liked the poppet
something I've tried to carry into all my
subsequent jobs and projects."
valve. An analogy: Why create an

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