Ex-Pininfarina Designer’s Japanese V12 Hypercar Stays Manual In An Age Of Automatics

Ken Okuyama unveiled the new Kode89 flagship hypercar. The mid-engine model gets a bespoke chassis and manual V12. Production is capped at eight units, with year one already sold out. Ex-Pininfarina designer Ken Okuyama brought his latest car to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The Kode89 is his flagship hypercar, built in a run of eight, with sharp bodywork and a V12 running through a manual gearbox. That last part tells you most of what you need to know about who it was built for. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else { adpushup.triggerAd(“82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f”); } }); The name points straight…

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