Motor Trend magazine recently hosted a very intriguing interview with the head of R&D at Honda, Kotaro Shige. And, you can push your visual of a stoic 'suite' out of your mind. According the Motor Trend, Shige is Honda's 'Rock-Star Exec' and 'the Jimmy Page of Japan's auto industry'.

We don't think Motor Trend was being gracious for the sake of it either. Sure, Shige has been working at Honda since…