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Shinichiro Irie

Shinichiro Irie

NissanDesign lead

Joined Nissan as a designer after the Z32 Fairlady Z made a strong impression on him as a student, and led design of the prototype for the seventh-generation Fairlady Z (RZ34)

Timeline

  1. 1993

    Joined

  2. 2021

    Program Design Director, Fairlady Z Prototype

  3. 2022
    Fairlady Z 7th generation (RZ34)
    Fairlady Z 7th generation (RZ34)

    2022–presentDesign lead

    Worked with

    A character line like drawing a bow

    Irie took the 240Z (S30) headlamps with their domed covers and combined them with modern technology for the headlamps of the "Fairlady Z Prototype." The character line was adjusted in increments of fractions of a millimeter to express the flow of power from the front engine to the rear tires. The way the line melts into the body near the door handle is meant to evoke power stored to the limit like a drawn bow and then released all at once into the rear fender.

Profile

Program design director for the "Fairlady Z Prototype".

Translated from Japanese sources.

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