I don't want to sound inflamatory -- I LOVE my TCH and I have incredible technical respect for Toyota for the (obviously) years of R&D to pull off the HSD system... but, I find it both sad and infuriating that a US nationally-funded facility, in conjunction with the three Detroit automakers (as "co-sponsors" whatever that means to net tax dollars), can use nuke-grade labs to reverse-engineer somebodies innovation.

Sure Toyota has some core patents on HSD (they've been posted on this board elsewhere), but the overall know-how and how-to are spread all over these pages.

It just doesn't seem "fair" -- in the "ethical" sense.

(A tad like the GM ads with kids dancing around a GM hybrid in a grassy meadow with the fine print that says "not available").

Reverse engineering goes on all the time (I've seen a dozen "teardowns" on iPhones), but this is the first one that I've seen so blatant and government-funded.

I wonder what all those Kentucky TCH workers are thinking?