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Old 02-28-2020, 09:32 AM   #15
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@ichitaka05 can't quote you.
Why don't you post the interview you had with Tada but include the 86 references that the Supra forum pulled out?
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Why don't you post the interview you had with Tada but include the 86 references that the Supra forum pulled out?
What? You want me to go back & translate some spots that I didn’t have to translate? lol when I have time in this weekend, I’ll try to get that going.
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All in all he may be a great, friendly, down to earth man but in the end he is just a middle sized fish in a really big pond so to think of him as some automotive god is just ridiculous.

He was a successful corporate middle sized fish, but that doesn't make him any less of a bona fide gearhead, either. Cupholder design pays the bills a whole lot more reliably than rolling loaded dice with the motorsports dream...
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He was a successful corporate middle sized fish, but that doesn't make him any less of a bona fide gearhead, either. Cupholder design pays the bills a whole lot more reliably than rolling loaded dice with the motorsports dream...
Didn't say he was less of a gearhead. Said he wasn't the original person with the dream just the guy that lead the team to make it happen.
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Didn't say he was less of a gearhead. Said he wasn't the original person with the dream just the guy that lead the team to make it happen.
Agreed. 'Automotive god' is reserved for the few people who saw their designs from original spark out to to the successful end and without whose active engineering input to the development process would have resulted in failure...Porsche, Chapman, Shelby, McLaren, etc. Tada is certainly a huge enthusiast - I don't take that away from him, and it certainly helped his pitch to the upstairs suits - but in the big picture is a regular corporate guy who has a mortgage like everyone else.
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I've met him a few times at different events. He's a nice guy. I don't know if he will be remembered because I don't even recall the NSX/S2000 engineer you named.
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I've met him a few times at different events. He's a nice guy. I don't know if he will be remembered because I don't even recall the NSX/S2000 engineer you named.
Takes a special kind of fanboi to be able to throw out the names of chief engineers for several models of car!
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He was a successful corporate middle sized fish, but that doesn't make him any less of a bona fide gearhead, either. Cupholder design pays the bills a whole lot more reliably than rolling loaded dice with the motorsports dream...
Yeah.. but like hundreds of others.

He will be remembered by a few that owned these cars.. otherwise.. negative.
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Yeah.. but like hundreds of others.

He will be remembered by a few that owned these cars.. otherwise.. negative.
Really? I can think few legends like, Father of Z, Katayama-san aka Mr. K. In Honda other than Soichiro Honda, def Shigeru Uehara come to mind. He helped develop iconic sports cars like NSX & S2000 (iirc DC-5). Hiromu Naruse was different engineer, but def carved Toyota's motorsports involvement and help develop Supra, MR2 and other sports cars. Of course, if you get into designer... Yoichi Sato (Rx7), (forgot the first name) Sakurai with GT-R comes to mind. Daisuke Sawai (AP1) is debatable. Not really Japanese, but want to note is Larry Shinoda (2nd gen Japanese) designer of String Ray & Mustang Boss 302 is up there on legend imo.

I'm pretty sure there are other famous engineers/designers... but that's what I can think top of my head.
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Really? I can think few legends like, Father of Z, Katayama-san aka Mr. K. In Honda other than Soichiro Honda, def Shigeru Uehara come to mind. He helped develop iconic sports cars like NSX & S2000 (iirc DC-5). Hiromu Naruse was different engineer, but def carved Toyota's motorsports involvement and help develop Supra, MR2 and other sports cars. Of course, if you get into designer... Yoichi Sato (Rx7), (forgot the first name) Sakurai with GT-R comes to mind. Daisuke Sawai (AP1) is debatable. Not really Japanese, but want to note is Larry Shinoda (2nd gen Japanese) designer of String Ray & Mustang Boss 302 is up there on legend imo.

I'm pretty sure there are other famous engineers/designers... but that's what I can think top of my head.
Except for Soichiro Honda, none of those were names I remembered. I'm not an automotive historian, just an enthusiast who likes to drive cars.. and I don't really care about who the chief engineer was for any of them. I'm sure Tada is a great guy, but I don't know him personally so don't really care all that much to remember his name 5 years from now. :shrug:
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Really? I can think few legends like, Father of Z, Katayama-san aka Mr. K. In Honda other than Soichiro Honda, def Shigeru Uehara come to mind. He helped develop iconic sports cars like NSX & S2000 (iirc DC-5). Hiromu Naruse was different engineer, but def carved Toyota's motorsports involvement and help develop Supra, MR2 and other sports cars. Of course, if you get into designer... Yoichi Sato (Rx7), (forgot the first name) Sakurai with GT-R comes to mind. Daisuke Sawai (AP1) is debatable. Not really Japanese, but want to note is Larry Shinoda (2nd gen Japanese) designer of String Ray & Mustang Boss 302 is up there on legend imo.

I'm pretty sure there are other famous engineers/designers... but that's what I can think top of my head.
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I'm disappointed that my name wasn't on your list.
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