Honda ambassador #claudesage has taken delivery of the first European #honda #nsx. Taku Kasahara, Branch President of #honda Motor Europe France, delivered the keys to Claude’s Curva Red #nsx in Monaco.
Mr Sage is the founder and former CEO of #honda Switzerland, a member of the #honda #nsx & Sportscar Club and has an extensive history with the evolution of this iconic sports car.
Claude’s involvement with #nsx development began with the HP-X (Honda Pininfarina eXperimental) in 1984. The HP-X Prototype was born from a collaboration between #honda and Italian design firm Pininfarina, powered by a #honda V6 engine taken from a Formula 2 car. Claude was involved as a development driver for the HP-X Prototype in Turin and Tochigi, Japan before the project evolved into the first generation of the #nsx (New Sports eXperimental). As development of the production car began in 1989, Claude retained his role as a development driver.
In 1993, the #nsx prototype that Claude had driven served as a basis for the development of an #nsx for Le Mans and he was appointed to manage the car at the Le Mans 24 heures race the following year.
Receiving his new #nsx, Mr. Sage commented, “The new #nsx truly belongs to the modern sports car segment, through the use of technology and rich Japanese origin. It follows the first #nsx perfectly.”
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