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People

# Satoru Nozaki

Toyota industrial designer responsible for the 2000GT exterior design

| Label | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Born | 1929 |
| Died | 2009 |
| Nationality | Japanese |

The record

Toyota industrial designer responsible for the 2000GT exterior design in project 280A, developed with Yamaha Motor.

Satoru Nozaki (野崎喩) was a Japanese industrial designer, born in 1929 and dead in 2009. He was from Karatsu, studied at Tokyo University of the Arts and joined Toyota. Yamaha identifies him as a Toyota product-planning designer and records his studies at Art Center College of Design in the United States, where he developed grand-tourer concepts used in the 2000GT’s exterior work.

Toyota began project 280A on 1 November 1964. Toyota sources name Jiro Kono as project leader, Nozaki for design and Shinichi Yamazaki for chassis. Toyota stationed its core staff at Yamaha; GAZOO records that Nozaki, Yamazaki and Takagi worked in Yamaha’s drawing office from Tuesday to Friday from mid-January 1965, completing the design drawings by the end of April.

For the exterior, Nozaki prepared a half-scale dimensional outline from his Art Center concepts. Yamaha records that the outline was photographically enlarged to full size and converted into a wooden body buck; the process used neither lettering nor a clay model. The first prototype was completed in August 1965 and a second appeared at the Tokyo Motor Show that October. The production model went on sale in May 1967; production ended in 1970.

### From outline to buck

Yamaha records that Nozaki prepared a half-scale dimensional outline from Art Center grand-tourer concepts, enlarged it photographically to full size and used a wooden body buck to check the metal panels. The process did not use a clay model.

### Toyota staff at Yamaha

Toyota Automobile Museum records that Toyota stationed its core 280A staff at Yamaha. GAZOO dates Nozaki, Yamazaki and Takagi’s drawing-office work there from mid-January 1965, Tuesday to Friday.

The house

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Credited through Toyota.

In the register

## One file carries this name

- [Toyota 2000GT Design lead · Toyota 1967–1970 €900k 1967–1970 €900k Rating 94.0](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/toyota/2000gt)

The files above are the register's own record of this name. [The people index](https://hiconium.dev/people) holds everyone the register credits.

Sources

- [toyota-automobile-museum.jp](https://toyota-automobile-museum.jp/en/archives/stories/detail/852.html)
- [global.yamaha-motor.com](https://global.yamaha-motor.com/stories/history/daysgoneby/005/)
- [global.yamaha-motor.com](https://global.yamaha-motor.com/stories/history/daysgoneby/006/)
- [gazoo.com](https://gazoo.com/feature/gazoo-museum/car-history/14/08/22_1/)
- [nosweb.jp](https://nosweb.jp/nostalgichero/articles/detail/1450)
- [toyota.jp](https://toyota.jp/spo/information/collection/2000gt/secret/index.html)
- [toyotatimes.jp](https://toyotatimes.jp/series/masters/051.html)
- [artsofjapan.com](https://artsofjapan.com/en/profiles/nozaki-satoru)
- [karatsu-bank.jp](https://karatsu-bank.jp/news-detail.php?id=45)
- [saga.mypl.net](https://saga.mypl.net/mp/odekake_saga/?sid=24842)