Craft, restraint and reinvention, from the Edo workshop to the Tokyo studio.
The Honda S800 is a 1965 sports car built to prove Honda could engineer a high-revving, lightweight, chain-driven automobile capable of 100 mph. It replaced the S600 as Honda’s image car. It was available as a roadster or coupe. Early units used chain drive and independent rear suspension. Just 994 chain-drive examples were built. Its 791 cc straight-4 produced 70 hp at 8,000 rpm and revved to 10,000 rpm.
The Mazda RX-7 is a Japanese sports car made by Mazda from 1978 to 2002. It uses a front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout and a compact, lightweight Wankel rotary engine. The first generation is a two-seater coupé with a rear hatchback. Later generations added 2+2 and convertible options, but the core two-seater coupé remained. More than 800,000 were built, including 471,018 first-generation units.
The 1969 Skyline GT-R is the original expression of Nissan’s racing-first philosophy—mechanical, purpose-built, and inseparable from its Skyline roots.
The Toyota MR2 (1984) was Toyota’s first rear-mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive production car. Developed under Seiichi Yamauchi, it used a transverse straight-four mounted ahead of the rear axle. Its suspension and handling were co-developed with Lotus engineer Roger Becker. All three generations complied with Japanese exterior dimension and engine displacement regulations. It debuted as the SV-3 concept at the 25th Tokyo Motor Show in October 1983. In French-speaking markets, it was renamed Toyota MR to avoid phonetic resemblance to 'merde'.