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

[KAR]

Originally Posted by vh_supra26

Supra stalking it... Lol

[rice_classic]

Originally Posted by Levi

Why?

The "next NSX" has been "just around the corner" for almost 10 years so I have a boy-who-cried-wolf syndrome regarding it.

[gymratter]

we already have an official NSX thread.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2842

Originally Posted by rice_classic

The "next NSX" has been "just around the corner" for almost 10 years so I have a boy-who-cried-wolf syndrome regarding it.

yes, but there are other reasons behind that.

Honda's new CEO killed the V10 Honda HSV. so they started all over for the ground up with the current NSX we see today.

[gymratter]

this thing is going to be expensive. a Honda spokesperson has said it will cost even more than the current $100k+ R35 GTR.

[Levi]

Originally Posted by gymratter

this thing is going to be expensive. a Honda spokesperson has said it will cost even more than the current $100k+ R35 GTR.

Think of the NSX as an affordable 918 Spyder.

[vh_supra26]

Originally Posted by KAR

Supra stalking it... Lol

Some are thinking Toyota could be testing a new drive train for FT-1

It would be the perfect test mule. Who would really suspect anything by using an old Supra body.

[raven1231]

SOUPRAH!

[daiheadjai]

Subjective opinion alert: This car looks pretty ho-hum. Comparatively, the FT-1 oozes charisma and soul.

[Levi]

Originally Posted by daiheadjai

Subjective opinion alert: This car looks pretty ho-hum. Comparatively, the FT-1 oozes charisma and soul.

The "soul" argument is... well, not to say you "love" a car, you say the car has soul.

[n2oinferno]

Originally Posted by Levi

The "soul" argument is... well, not to say you "love" a car, you say the car has soul.

You know, I used to say some cars have soul, some don't. But at some point it occurred to me that no car really has soul. Cars have certain aspects and quirks, certain designs or features, or driving dynamics, that were given to them by the engineers. It's those engineers that have soul. The final product is just a machine. But the better machines, the ones we say "have soul," were generally just created by a better team of individuals.

[vh_supra26]

It looks like engineers are hard at work on perfecting the 2015 Honda NSX, as our European spies caught the second coming of the Japanese supercar being driven hard around the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

From the outside, the camouflaged prototype appears to be pretty similar to the concepts wheeled out in Detroit 2012 and 2013. There are reprofiled front air intakes, new vents behind the front wheels, larger side scoops and a centrally-mounted exhaust outlet, but apart from that, much remains the same.



We also have a shot of the interior, which features a large hood covering what looks like a central LCD display. This differs from the concept interior shown last year, although since the prototype’s upper dashboard looks identical to that of the Acura RLX, the design may not be final.

The new NSX will make use of a Sport Hybrid Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) three-motor high-performance hybrid system, with a mid-mounted direct-injected VTEC V6 mated to an electric motor and a dual clutch transmission. This combination drives the rear wheels; meanwhile, another pair of electric motors drive the front wheels and can provide instant positive or negative torque during cornering.



Honda will build the NSX next year at its new US$70 million (RM222 million) Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio, and the car is expected be fully revealed before the end of the year. The NSX is but one of the Japanese performance icons due to be reborn – a Toyota Supra reboot is also expected to be on the cards if the recent FT-1 concept is any indication, so it’s good times ahead for fans of Japanese muscle.

Indeed, the NSX prototype spotted on the Nürburgring appears to have been chasing a fourth-generation Supra at one point! Nothing like a bit of cross-country rivalry, eh?

http://paultan.org/2014/07/23/spyshots-2015-honda-nsx/

[daiheadjai]

Originally Posted by Levi

The "soul" argument is... well, not to say you "love" a car, you say the car has soul.

I think my gripe is that this NSX (from a strictly aesthetic perspective) just doesn't look very interesting at all.
From the front to the rear, there is nothing that seems interesting to me - the HSV-010 that Honda raced in JGTC looks light years more interesting.

To me, somehow this NSX (and even the S600 successor concept) just look sterile and bland - like the product of a robot design team, utterly devoid of emotion.

[daiheadjai]

http://jalopnik.com/5435401/honda-hs...hat-never-was/

For reference:

[Lonewolf]

I'm still not convinced this production NSX successor sees the light of day in 2015 (2016 maybe) ...Honda's jerked people around too many times before...

With that said, I hope the car does come out...not like I can afford to blow 100K plus on a car and keep my family (lol) but it would still be nice to see roaming the streets