Acura NSX Approved for Production! Concept to Appear at 2012 Detroit Show

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Originally Posted by Whitigir

The only car company that Masterfully deliver Torque to the wheels efficiently is Nissan on their GT-R. I am very curious to see this car Lap time. But I doubt it beats the GT-T. Very...Very much

What exactly is your definition of "masterfully delivering torque to the wheels efficiently"?

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Originally Posted by chrisl

What exactly is your definition of "masterfully delivering torque to the wheels efficiently"?

Maximizing the grips at the wheels

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Originally Posted by Whitigir

Maximizing the grips at the wheels

Then how exactly does that not apply to something like a 918, 911 Turbo S, R8, Aventador, or any other high performance AWD car (and even several RWD cars, for that matter)?

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Originally Posted by chrisl

Then how exactly does that not apply to something like a 918, 911 Turbo S, R8, Aventador, or any other high performance AWD car (and even several RWD cars, for that matter)?

I said Masterfully. That technology or however they engineer it belong to Nissan (Nissan does it best.) Other companies have their own, but Nissan do it best with the GT-R. You may want to read more about GT-R and it technologies, and how it can compete with other Super-Cars in the Nurbering

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That's really pretty vaporware.

[Levi]

Originally Posted by rice_classic

That's really pretty vaporware.

Why?

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Acura NSX Production Site Selected in Ohio

Located Near Honda’s R&D Center, Facility to Employ 100 Highly Skilled Associates

Acura today announced that the all-new NSX supercar will be produced at a new Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio, a $70 million advanced production facility encompassing 184,000 square feet to be housed inside Honda’s former North American Logistics facility and located in the midst of Honda’s existing R&D and production engineering operations.

The site for the new production facility, which will be Honda’s third auto plant in Ohio, is only a few miles from the Honda R&D Americas, Inc. Ohio Center that is engineering the supercar for production and adjacent to Honda of America Mfg.’s Marysville Auto Plant. The Performance Manufacturing Center also is close to Honda Engineering North America, Inc., center for the development of new production technologies.

A part of Honda of America, the Performance Manufacturing Center will be a unique manufacturing operation that will employ approximately 100 highly skilled manufacturing associates drawn from within Honda’s existing operations in Ohio. In addition, associates at Honda’s engine plant in Anna, Ohio, will assemble the NSX powertrain.

“Thirty years ago, building cars in America was a big dream. Working together, here in Ohio and across North America we turned this dream into reality,” said Hidenobu Iwata, president & CEO of Honda of America and the head of Honda’s manufacturing operations in North America. “The location of this facility is in the midst of one of the greatest collections of engineering and production talent in the world. So it makes sense that we will renew the dream and build this high-tech, supercar in Marysville, Ohio.”

In addition to the plant location, Honda announced that Honda R&D Americas chief engineer Ted Klaus is leading the global team developing the new NSX, and Clement D’ Souza, associate chief engineer at Honda of America, is leading the team that will bring NSX to mass production in 2015.

“This new plant will be as unique as the vehicle we will build here,” said D’Souza. “In creating the plan for this plant, we looked closely at each process and determined the perfect blend of associate craftsmanship and technology to adopt a new approach to manufacturing.”

The Acura NSX Concept was on display at the event, attended by local community and government leaders, including Ohio Governor John Kasich, showcasing the NSX’s low and wide stance that will help fulfill the Acura brand product direction centered on the synergy between man and machine.

The new NSX is being developed by a global R&D team led by designers and engineers at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. located in Los Angeles, Calif., and Raymond, Ohio. The NSX will feature a unique powertrain and body structure to provide an incredible driving experience. It will be powered by a mid-mounted V-6 engine mated to Acura’s innovative new Sport Hybrid SH-AWD (Super Handling All Wheel Drive) system.

“We have a very clear understanding of the high customer expectations luxury buyers around the world have for a supercar, and our challenge is to exceed them and create new value for the customer,” said Klaus. “This new Performance Manufacturing Center will be key to this challenge.”

Once selected, the team of production associates at the Performance Manufacturing Center will begin training and establishing manufacturing processes that will be used to build the all-new NSX. The next generation NSX will be built exclusively at the all-new Performance Manufacturing Center. In addition to being sold in North America, the NSX will be exported to customers throughout the world.

The original Acura NSX was built at the Takanezawa Plant in Japan from 1990 until production moved to the Suzuka Plant in early 2004, where it was produced until 2005. Part of the Tochigi Factory, the Takanezawa Plant was the first manufacturing facility in the world to mass-produce an all-aluminum body and balance advanced production equipment with hands-on “craftsman” processes.

http://acuraconnected.com/2013/05/14...ected-in-ohio/

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Making it’s first public appearance at the 2014 Tokyo Auto Salon, The Honda NSX-GT will soon compete in its first season of Japanese Super GT racing, a year before the street car goes on sale.

The racer is powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine equipped with a racing hybrid system. Previously, cars racing in the series used a 3.4-liter V8, but new rules coming into place starting this year will see them move to smaller engines.

It’s quite the contrast on what we’ll see in the production NSX, which will be a twin-turbo V6 hybrid featuring the brand’s Sport Hybrid Super-Handling All-Wheel Drive.

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2...nce-tokyo.html

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After numerous teases in the form of renderings and styling bucks, Acura has finally released some key technical details on the upcoming NSX revival, and they're big changes. In the biggest shocker, Acura reconfigured the drivetrain from the original NSX's transverse layout to a longitudinal layout, like a Ferrari 458.

Honda R&D executives tell us the switch was made about a year ago after it was decided the transverse arrangement wouldn't give the car the driving experience the company wanted. The original plan had been to essentially reorient the Acura RLX Sport Hybrid's drivetrain and add turbochargers.

This would move the V-6 engine and transverse transmission with an integrated electric motor to the rear of the car and the two other electric motors to the front. Doing so would save money by using common parts. Apparently, the savings weren't worth it. Instead, Honda is throwing what must be an enormous amount of money at this car to make it the best it can be. The new NSX drivetrain retains front-mounted electric motors driving the front wheels independently of one another, as well as a third electric motor integrated in the all-new, Honda-developed transaxle.

It's a dual-clutch unit, though Acura won't confirm the number of gears, saying only that it will have "more than six." The RLX Sport Hybrid, for comparison, uses a new seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, and Honda is developing a new eight-speed dual-clutch for cars such as the Accord, though neither is necessarily an indicator of what this all-new transmission will employ. Those same Honda R&D executives tell us the only external change necessary to accommodate the new drivetrain layout was the slight lengthening of the rear end to provide more room for crash structure to protect the drivetrain.

Providing power to this new transmission is an all-new V-6 engine about which we were told little. Engineers at the presentation would only say that it is a clean-sheet design and that it will displace "no more than 3.5 liters." We gleaned a few more details by taking a close look. For starters, this is a wide-angle V-6, not a 60-degree V like other Honda V-6s. It looks to be a 90-degree V-angle, but might be slightly narrower. It features direct injection and has no oil sump -- an engineer it will have a dry-sump oil system.

To save weight, every bit of this new engine appears to be cast from the absolute minimum amount of metal needed to get the job done. The new engine is fed by two turbochargers, one hanging off each bank. From the angle of the compressor outlets and the twin throttle bodies mounted on the tall plenum, it appears that the intercoolers will be mounted up high on top of the engine. And it appears that the scoops just behind the doors and below the quarter-windows are functional and will feed these two intercoolers, with hot air exiting through vents in the deck lid flanking the rear window.

The battery, of unknown size and composition, will sit transversely ahead of the engine and behind the seats. Power will be distributed through a module in the tunnel between the seats and sent to or received from the front and rear electric motors. According to video simulations shown by Acura, the NSX will be able to drive under full electric power in the city, but will be effectively front-wheel drive in that scenario, with only the front electric motors powered and the rear drivetrain shut down. Under harder driving, power will come from all three electric motors as well as the gasoline engine.

Acura has so far refused to announce power figures, part of a calculated strategy that speaks to the company's philosophy on this car. Rather than let the Internet shred the spec chart and make all sorts of numbers-only comparisons, Acura wants people to hear about how the car drives and feels first, then look at the numbers.

As such, don't expect much in the way of hard numbers before the car's production debut. Still, we know this much: The new RLX Sport Hybrid claims 310 horsepower and 272 lb-ft of torque from its naturally aspirated V-6, and when combined with its three electric motors, the total drivetrain output is 377 horsepower and an unspecified amount of torque. The RLX uses two 27-kW independent electric motors in the rear and a 35-kW electric motor embedded in the transmission.

At the bare minimum, we're certain the NSX will make more total power from its new turbocharged engine and potentially upgraded electric motors. The Ferrari 458, for what it's worth, makes 557 horsepower and 398 lb-ft of torque.

The NSX's party trick, though, will be its ability to use regenerative braking with the electric motors to increase performance and handling. Using technology from the RLX Sport Hybrid, the NSX will use its electric motors to drag on certain wheels when cornering in a form of electronic torque vectoring.

The independent front electric motors will be able to apply a small amount of regenerative braking to the inside wheel when cornering, slowing it down and changing the car's inertia while simultaneously accelerating the outside wheel to help steer it around the corner. Because the rear drivetrain uses only a single electric motor powering both rear wheels, it will only be able to apply regenerative braking and not the torque vectoring effect, though it's possible Acura could use the rear brakes or differential to achieve the same effect.

We're told Acura's benchmark in developing the new NSX is the vaunted Ferrari 458 Italia, with Acura hoping to provide a comparable or better driving experience for less money (911 prices, it says) and with more technology. The high-tech powertrain will be augmented by a surprisingly low curb weight that one engineer suggested was targeted at 2200 pounds, though he quickly stopped talking after that. We don't know much about the NSX's body and frame construction yet, but Honda confirmed it will be an aluminum monocoque.

The Ferrari, by way of comparison, weighs a shade less than 3450 pounds. Acura has also declined to offer details on the NSX's suspension, but we expect a fully independent design. Some kind of active damping system is also likely, possibly the variable rate dampers currently employed on the RLX and MDX. Despite the massive changes to the design and engineering of the car, Honda officials insist that the NSX will be completed in 2015. We're told the first drivable prototype with the new drivetrain only hit the pavement a month ago, so engineers are likely working around the clock to keep the development on schedule.

We've also learned that Honda Performance Development, which just recently began working on street applications in addition to racing, is working with the NSX team on a special high-performance model. If Honda's game plan so far is any indication, we'll likely see more information on the car released in small doses as the premiere nears.

http://www.motortrend.com/features/a...train_changes/

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Honda has given us our first look at the new race car it plans to compete with in the premier GT500 class of Japan’s Super GT touring car series from next year onwards. The new race car is still in the concept phase but it already closely resembles the final version due on the grid next year.

It is called the NSX Concept-GT and is based on the second-generation Acura NSX sports car due out in 2015. It complies with Super GT’s revised regulations coming into play next year, as prescribed by the Japan Automobile Federation. The regulations now more closely match those of Germany’s DTM series and call for turbocharged 2.0-liter engines and optional hybrid systems.

Along with a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, mounted in a mid-engine position, the NSX Concept-GT is also equipped with a racing hybrid system. It’s unclear if this system is similar to the three-motor setup destined for the new Acura NSX.

The NSX Concept-GT previews the race car that will replace Honda’s HSV-10 GT, which currently competes in Super GT and was the replacement for the original NSX after it bowed out of the series. The HSV-10 GT is based on a stillborn sports car that Honda had hoped to launch as a second-generation NSX but the project came unstuck following the financial crisis of 2008.

Note, Lexus today revealed its own RC-based race car that will compete in Super GT next year.

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1...er-gt-race-car

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