The Man Who Designed The Ferrari Enzo Just Created His Own V12 Supercar

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Between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s, before the burst of its economic bubble, Japan had multiplied the concept cars capable of competing, on paper at least, with what was more sharp elsewhere in the world: full transmission, motors borrowed from competition, etc. Some of these prototypes, such as the Honda NSX, had finally reached production. Others, signed Isuzu, Nissan or Mitsubishi, had remained at the stage of the style exercise. It wa…

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The current supercars align the horse and time records to the turn. But they also embark giant batteries, double clutch boxes and kilos of electronics. What if someone decides to go back to a purely mechanical supercar? It is exactly the bet of the new Kode89, a bass machine, sharp, which seems to have come out of the 80's-90's. Presented at the Pebble Beach Elegance Competition during the Monterey Car Week, she claims a return assumed to analog…

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Ken Okuyama's Kode89 is an ode to 1989, the year considered the peak of Japanese car design.This beauty has its own chassis, rather than being a derivative of an existing supercar, serving as a tribute to the era in which the Japanese concept amazed the whole world with what they could do.There was a time when Japan overshadowed the rest of the world in automobile technology. Between the mid-eighties and early nineties, until its economic bubble…