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People need to read and understand the development story. Tada did not dream up this car, decide to partner with Subaru or even have a hand in the early prototypes. The project was already launched and in it's early stages when he was pulled from designing minivans and assigned to it. By the sounds of it he didn't even see the assignment coming.


Once he was assigned he lead a TEAM that did the development. Yes, he was their spokesman and representative to higher management (as chief Designer for a project he is many many steps down from the top) but he did not single handedly build the car. Would the same or similar car result with a different leader? Probably.


Like any corporate public figure he can only say so much about a project without being fired for disclosure of restricted information. That restriction is part of why many of his official statements were always so vague. He was also very often misquoted or his statements twisted by the "press".
My favorite progress can be found if you dig through some old articles about the MR2.
The statement made was "I would LIKE to see a three sports car line up" no mention of an MR2 or any other specifics. By the time that statement had played telephone through 4 or 5 click baits we were seeing the headline "Tada announces plans to build a MR2 in conjunction with Mazda". Hell some of the sites even had beautiful renders of the car.


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.