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Hiroshi Tamura

Hiroshi Tamura

NissanDevelopment lead

Watched the Hakosuka GT-R race as a child, joined Nissan still set on building a GT-R, and was Chief Product Specialist of the R35 GT-R from the 2014 model year

Timeline

  1. 1984

    JoinedNissan

    Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

  2. 2013
    GT-R (R35)
    GT-R (R35)

    2007–2025Development leadfrom Dec. 2013

    Worked with

    Both speed and a grown-up GT

    Tamura believes a GT-R must be both fast on the circuit and a proper gran turismo. Lean toward a race car and it gets in the way of daily life; lean toward a GT and it becomes heavy and slow. The new model year was his attempt to speak to people on both sides. To improve the ride over the previous stiff suspension, the springs, shocks, bushings, stabilizers and tires were all changed, and the GT-R NISMO, committed to speed on the circuit, was added to the lineup alongside it.

  3. 2014

    Chief Product Specialist, GT-R

  4. 2015

    Chief Product Specialist, NISMO Business Office and Product Planning Department No. 1

  5. 2022
    Fairlady Z 7th generation (RZ34)
    Fairlady Z 7th generation (RZ34)

    2022–presentDevelopment lead

    Worked with

Connections

Hiroshi Tamura

Hiroshi Tamura

    • Kozo Watanabe

      Kozo Watanabe

      Superior

      Tamura is described as having learned from Sakurai at Autech Japan and then grown under Ito and Watanabe, who successively headed development of the GT-R.

    • Naganori Ito

      Naganori Ito

      Superior

      Tamura is described as having learned from Sakurai at Autech Japan and then grown under Ito and Watanabe, who successively headed development of the GT-R.

    • Shinichiro Sakurai

      Shinichiro Sakurai

      Superior

      Tamura was seconded from Nissan to Autech Japan, where he learned under Sakurai; when Sakurai, the company president, told him "We're going to collaborate with Zagato!", he drew the vehicle plan drawings for the Autech Zagato Stelvio.

    Profile

    Head of development of the Nissan GT-R (R35) for the later model years, as chief product specialist. Kazutoshi Mizuno headed its development for the model years before that.

    Translated from Japanese sources.

    Nissan engineers

    All Nissan engineers