Ayrton Senna is often credited with helping to develop the NSX, and the wonderful human being he was tends to overshadow the true magic performed by tireless hands of the development team that took his feedback to heart. Imagine having a perfectly viable product that, having met all of its design targets, is calculated to be superior to all its competitors on the market, only to receive a polite but valid critique from the biggest name in the field that inspired the entire concept. "I'm not sure I can really give you appropriate advice on a mass-production car,"  Senna remarked having lapped the prototype around Suzuka, "but I feel it's a little fragile."

As the story goes, the team took their creation to the Nürburgring where they painstakingly welded ad-hoc reinforcements into the aluminum chassis, feeding their learnings back into their 1980s' supercomputer to refine the structure. Crucially, they broadened their focus from the numbers to encompass how the car truly felt to the driver. I believe this is the core reason why the NSX continues to build an impossible hype that it simultaneously lives up to. It is owed to the team pursuing the spirit of their first Formula 1 victory. Good enough was never defined by the numbers.

With rare exceptions, car manufacturers don't operate that way today. People, in general, rarely do - unless passion binds them to the endless pursuit of better. This is what Type Z Designs is all about: a series of experimental but intuitively crafted parts inspired by the relentless efforts of Honda's engineers. Every released design has already undergone numerous iterations and refinements and is likely to see many more, chasing zen in every curve, all in keeping with the spirit of the original machine.