CB77
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Ted Klaus
(The following are remarks made by Eric Berkman, as he announces the LPL for the NSX)
"We have a great team with a lot of talented young engineers, including a test engineer named Ted Klaus. And we're sharing for the first time today that Ted now has responsibility for leading global development of the next generation NSX supercar. Ted is in Honda parlance the Large Project Leader, or LPL, for this development. That means he is responsible not only for leading a team of engineers, but ensuring that every aspect of the development is sharply focused on the customer.
Within our R&D organizations, we used to say a car was a Tochigi development meaning it was being developed at our Tochigi Center in Japan or an HRA development, meaning we were developing it in the U.S. But it's not so simple anymore and probably never will be again.
While we're leading NSX development in the U.S., it's a global project and Ted is spending a good deal of time working with our engineers in Japan as well where the new Sport Hybrid Super Handling All Wheel Drive system is being developed."
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revvin
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This is big. What's his cv look like?
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Midi_Amp
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A quick google and bing search netted Autoblog's and Caranddriver website...
From Autoblog Acura winter testing lab:
The man that issued (maybe regrettably) the "don't hold back" edict is Ted Klaus, one of Honda's chief engineers and one member of the team that spends five to six weeks at the facility each year. Along with Principle Engineers Jeff Ertz, Jason Widmer and Mike Unger, they constitute a relative rarity in the automotive world – they're both engineers and test drivers – a distinction that was hammered home countless times during my stay
Can't stress that enough... Mr. Klaus might not be Ayrton Senna, but he's an engineer and test driver. The GT86 and LF-A has no input from internationally famous drivers, but both turns out right.
Funny enough this is old news actually, dated back to March 2012. So whoever this Ted guy, he already has his oily hand on the NSX 2.0 as of this writing, in whatever form.
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RolledaNsx
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This is VERY GOOD NEWS!!!
A test engineer as project lead!!!
Also he is a test driver...
This is so cool.... a Driver is the lead on Honda's next Sports Car!!!! It's like having the Stig of Top Gear designing the NSX!!!
For the last 15 or so years Ted been the Stig of American Honda!!!
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Colin
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Interesting! If they were to involve a high profile race driver, who would it be? I think their current best is Dario Franchitti. 4-Time series champion, 3-Time Indy 500 winner and each of his 31 CART/IRL/Indycar wins was powered by Honda.
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MarkR
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The new NSX has class leading shape, it's a super good looking car. I am so happy that finally you can say Honda is up there with the best when it comes to design.
The size seems to be like the McLaren MP4-12C sports car which is only a good thing, superb Honda!
I wish you would do the same with your other products.
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RolledaNsx
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Dario is not a good development driver,doesn't give back the best info.
Honda has under contract Lucas Luhr and Simon Pagenaud.
Lucas was the development driver for the Porsche Syder RS and was a winning gt driver for Audi and Nissan, he knows want a sports car is suppose to handle.
Simon developed the Acura ARX-01A and is a great step by step driver with great feedback on car handling.
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Chocs
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How about the drift king himself? IIRC the guy used to race for ARTA NSX in SGT GT500 class.
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RolledaNsx
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you find out that mostly the NSX is being designed in Japan.It's being developed in America.It's exterior was penned(designed) in Tokyo and the powertrain is designed in Japan too.
Tom's nephew states that Tom is in charge of the entire suspension development and that's not surprising because he is known at Honda as the Vehicle-Dynamics Guru.
So it looks like it's going to be design in Japan
but built, tested and developed in America.
Don't worry Dave Marek won't be penning major parts!
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CB77
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I had not realized before what a small car the new NSX will be. With Klaus kneeling next to it, it looks like he would barely fit in one.
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CivicB18
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I'm curious of what Honda is using as a benchmark or what Honda's performance targets are? Currently there really isn't new out there to benchmark and we will have the new R8, 911 Turbo, maybe a new GTR, Gallardo and probably a Italia Stradale coming before the NSX is even available. Honda can't afford to lowball their targets as this class of car is always improving and evolving. Honda, this is your chance to BRING IT!
~Patrick
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owequitit
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CB77 wrote:
I had not realized before what a small car the new NSX will be. With Klaus kneeling next to it, it looks like he would barely fit in one.
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It is about the same height as the original NSX, but several inches shorter. The only notably larger dimension is width. Of course that is for the prototype. It has already been determined that the actual production car will fit nearly the length/width footprint of the original given the changes that will need to be made for crashworthiness. Still, that is pretty small.
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