UPDATE: Since this story’s unique publication, Ken Okuyama Vehicles launched extra pictures and specs for the Kode61 Birdcage. We extensively up to date the report back to replicate the brand new data.
Ken Okuyama is an completed industrial designer with a resumé that features engaged on the Ferrari Enzo, 599 GTB, and 612 Scaglietti throughout his time at Pininfarina. Now, he operates Ken Okuyama Vehicles that creates lovely, small-run machines. He debuted the brand new Kode61 Birdcage at this 12 months’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este.
The Kode61 Birdcage has a design that mixes retro and fashionable styling parts. The entrance involves a pointy level, and thin headlights incorporate into the sting. The grille options an asymmetrical structure.
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The hood options uncovered sections close to the interior parts of the raised fenders. It seems these openings would possibly let onlookers get a glimpse of the mechanical components beneath.
The perimeters have sharp creases, however the fenders have flowing arches. The tiny doorways look neat. Nevertheless, the excessive sills make it look troublesome to step into the automobile.
The rear deck incorporates a pointed form that’s much like the nostril. There are gills on the interior part of every fender. A pair of exhausts exit out of the tip of the tail.
The Kode61 Birdcage and its styling take inspiration from the Maserati Tipo 61, however on this case, the physique panels are carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic. It glided by the nickname “Birdcage” due to the partially uncovered spaceframe chassis. Okuyama additionally labored on the 2005 Birdcage seventy fifth idea whereas he was at Pininfarina. The automobile mixed fashionable strategies with the looks of the unique.
The inside incorporates a central backbone that separates the occupants. Each seats have separate, rounded windshields. The motive force seems at two, massive analog gauges. The gearshift is a gated six-speed guide with a semi-exposed linkage. The important thing goes into the center of the middle stack, and there are switches beneath it. The passenger seems at a digital show.
The Kode61 Birdcage makes use of a 4.2-liter V8 that makes 396 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 326 pound-feet of torque. The video above permits you to hear the engine. The suspension consists of impartial, unequal-length wishbones.
Okuyama makes no point out of the Kode61 Birdcage’s powertrain. You possibly can hear the combustion engine within the video above. We reached out to Ken Okuyama Design for extra particulars.
The Kode61 Birdcage marked the primary time for a Japanese coachbuilder to earn a nomination within the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este idea automotive class.
Whereas the Kode61 Birdcage is a novel automobile for the time being. Ken Okuyama Vehicles plans to make a limited-run manufacturing model that the corporate would construct in Japan. There are not any particulars obtainable but about what number of the automaker would construct or how a lot every one would price.
Okuyama additionally made the Kode 0 that debuted throughout Monterey Automobile Week in 2017. It featured an ultra-angular design and a 6.5-liter V12 making 690 hp and 507 lb-ft. He constructed the automobile as a one-off fee for a worth of round $1.5 million.