I found who designed the hpx but cant find the nsx designer
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who designed the nsx?
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I read it was Ken Okuyama. He was a designer for Pininfarina I believe.
And chief engineer Shigeru Uehara.
And chief engineer Shigeru Uehara.
I always thought it was keN SaX. :wink:
Honda corporation.
some guy who worked at Honda
Takanobu Ito
i did (this is not well known)
i was in a bar in japan around 1987,sketching pics of my dream car on a napkin.a man who later id'd himself as mr. honda came over to look at them, said he liked them, and he'd thought about building a car like that.i told him i wished he would,so i could buy one 20 years later,spend lots of time obsessing over it and keeping it detailed,occasionally drive it,and join a message board so i could talk about it with helpful like-minded enthusiasts.
the rest is history,and the story can finally be told.
i was in a bar in japan around 1987,sketching pics of my dream car on a napkin.a man who later id'd himself as mr. honda came over to look at them, said he liked them, and he'd thought about building a car like that.i told him i wished he would,so i could buy one 20 years later,spend lots of time obsessing over it and keeping it detailed,occasionally drive it,and join a message board so i could talk about it with helpful like-minded enthusiasts.
the rest is history,and the story can finally be told.
Shigeru Uehara is usually credited with the NSX design.
Funny, twenty minutes before this event, I was talking to a bartender about this very same car. I didn't realize the guy next to me was listening in on my conversation.
Mr. Miyagi....DUH (wax on...wax off) even told us how to keep it clean! :biggrin:
vegas,man,i'm sorry,i didn't mean to steal your stuff...
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signed my NSX at NSXPO 06
Man that's dead on.
Yes I always thougt that was intriguing. Mid 4 was introduced in 1985 at the Frankfurt Show. Mid engine and AWD.
This little video is telling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6For1JfDItY
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Since you bring that up: Pininfarina was hired to do the body design in 1984.
From Wiki: in 1984 commissioned the Italian car designer Pininfarina to design the HP-X (Honda Pininfarina Xperimental),[1] which had a mid-mounted 2.0 L V6 configuration.
After Honda decided to actively pursue the project, its management briefed to its engineers that its car would have to be as good as anything coming from Italy and Germany[2], the HP-X concept car evolved into the NS-X (New Sportscar eXperimental) prototype.
This I beleive was the HP-X. Obviously it does not look as close to the final shape as did the MID-4. PF did not have much to do with the eventual NSX. Not trying to demean NSX value; I have been an owner since 1994.
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