Ken Okuyama is a distinguished name in the car world. His brain child’s include cars such as the Ferrari Enzo, the Maserati Quattroporte, and has had stints at GM and Porsche. He is one of the great car designers of the modern age.
His most recent project is a car that he has designed and created independently, called the KO7. HE has designed this car after his prized TAG Heuer watches. The grey on the car is actually polished aluminum, and the body is made of carbon fiber. Al the dials on the car pay homage to the watches, even the gas cap is modeled after one.
The chassis and powertrain of the car are lifter from a Lotus Elise, but that is where the manufacturing ends and the custom begins. Nearly every piece of this one-of-a-kind roadster is hand made.
Plans to take the car into production are to make a few a year, and are on order for about $240,000. But don’t expect to get one in the US. Okayama is also playing around with different engine and transmission layout from Honda and Ford.
This is one of the best looking roadsters I’ve ever seen, to bad I can’t get one for the states.
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