Preview: Honda’s 600HP V10 NSX-replacement

[VH_Supra26]

http://www.motorauthority.com/images/Honda/NSX/Rendering/01/Honda_NSX_preview_MotorAuthority_001.jpg

Updated: Honda’s replacement for the NSX is still more than two years away but a number of key details about the car have been revealed by an inside source at Honda. According to the insider, the styling of the new car will be very similar to the Advanced Sports Car Concept from last year’s Detroit Auto Show and its future price tag will be around the $160,000 mark.

The car’s lines will favor efficiency over style, with much of the design derived from Honda’s F1 program. According to Edmunds, a prototype set a blistering Nurburgring lap time of 7m 37s on its first attempt and the final number should easily slip below 7m 30s and into Corvette ZR1 and Nissan GT-R territory.

The key to its performance is high-speed stability. The rear section of the car supposedly acts as a giant rear diffuser, designed to keep the 1,476kg (3,256lb) supercar glued to the road. The other factor in the performance equation is the car’s 5.5L V10 engine, which the insider revealed would output upwards of 600hp (450kW) and 433lb-ft (586Nm) of torque. When not at its peak, the engine will be able to deactivate half of its cylinders to save fuel and lower emissions. Drive will be sent to an uprated Super-Handling AWD system via a new six-speed dual-clutch transmission.

Original: Honda’s NSX replacement has had several false starts, with the company scrapping one of its original designs – the Acura Advanced Sports Car Concept - after the public’s largely negative response to the 2007 Detroit show car. Designers were sent back to the drawing board and Honda was forced to abandon its original plans to show the car at the following Tokyo Motor Show.

Despite the drawbacks, engineers were able to continue testing the new mechanicals for the car by using a modified S2000 body and we saw the first test-mules running laps at the Nurburgring by the middle of last year. The latest round of spy shots suggest Honda has come up with a final design for the car, as seen by this latest prototype once again spotted at the Nurburgring in Germany that’s very likely to be the replacement for the legendary Honda supercar.

Speaking with MotorAuthority back in April, Acura spokesman Mike Spencer confirmed several details of the upcoming NSX replacement. The car will definitely be powered by a V10 engine, and it will be equipped with the company’s SH-AWD system. The lack of intakes at the rear of the car also confirms the NSX replacement will feature a front-engine configuration, as opposed to the mid-engine layout of the former.

There has been some discussion of a possible four-wheel steering system (4WS) for the NSX replacement, but Spencer suggested the SH-AWD system would achieve most of the benefits of 4WS without the added complexity.

The NSX replacement is now expected to arrive sometime in 2010 as a 2011 model with final pricing expected to be revealed closer to the car’s release date.

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/supercars/spy-shots-2011-honda-acura-nsx/

[mtran]

and people thought paying $30k for a mugen civic si was insane...

[IIIVOVE]

3200lbs ain't so super. bet if they can drop another couple hundred pounds they'd see and big inprovement.

[JHizzleX]

and people thought paying $30k for a mugen civic si was insane...

exactly..i still dont understand that with no performance difference. guy came out to a meet 2 weeks ago in one and everyone looked ath im stupid...



the car looks nice but obviously wayy too pricey

[La0s3]

$160000 for a honda

[trill]

FUCK IS WRONG WTH AMERICA

[VH_Supra26]

$160000 for a honda

its a Acura here in the states :p

[i-vtec195]

$160000 for a honda

why not? toyota's coming out with a quarter million dollar car. :o

can't wait to see what they do with it by the time production nears.

[Jeebus]

why not? toyota's coming out with a quarter million dollar car. :o
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Wrd, and nissan with a 100+k car. I have faith in Honda but Once again though, this car DOES NOT have the 150k+ "look." It better pick up on performance big time.

exactly..i still dont understand that with no performance difference. guy came out to a meet 2 weeks ago in one and everyone looked ath im stupid...



the car looks nice but obviously wayy too pricey

Its an enthusiast car, not everyone would buy one and Honda knows that which is why they arent making as many as say a Honda Civic Si or an Ex.

[i-vtec195]

Wrd, and nissan with a 100+k car. I have faith in Honda but Once again though, this car DOES NOT have the 150k+ "look." It better pick up on performance big time.


i think it's a pretty stupid comment, especially considering that honda easily builds some of the best performing v10's in the world already. detuning towards a production car should be child's play. i bet that motor's fkn solid.

[eN_2_Oh]

the speculated specs are solid. it sounds like it should be a contender, but now it has to update on the design. it just doesnt look the part.

[VH_Supra26]

the speculated specs are solid. it sounds like it should be a contender, but now it has to update on the design. it just doesnt look the part.

+ one, Honda's design has been going down hill

[Jeebus]

i think it's a pretty stupid comment, especially considering that honda easily builds some of the best performing v10's in the world already. detuning towards a production car should be child's play. i bet that motor's fkn solid.
Oh Im not saying they cant do it fgt. By what I read I can already see it being a great performer, I just think they need to work on exterior of the car more. THe old NSX was nothing too fast to brag about but its exotic look is timeless and even keeps up with many of todays auto designs. Thats kinda what I picture when I hear NSX and that picture up there:down:. Then again, alot of Acura/Honda designs have been going down the shitter lately:-/

[honda_david]

uh...to the people that think this car is overpriced...aren't nsx's hand-built by man-power, not machine power? that's why there aren't that many manufactured by acura/honda?

[Drift Gangsta]

"more than you can afford pal....honda"

[THAIpe_R]

and people thought paying $30k for a mugen civic si was insane...
yeah and people still bought it

imagine how much the civic rr would have costed and it still sold like crazy

[BrapKiLz]

I think it looks way too much like a honda. And hondas are disgusting these days.

[uneek]

I think it takes away from what the original NSX looked like. and 160K is way too much, people will buy GT-R's and ZR1's. lower the price by about 60K and then you might be able to compete with sales.

[94egg]

the past NSX was so much better than this one, looks like a regular sports car, like a Z or G37, not super car or exotic

[ThaJokaa]

nce but they need to beat 7:22.1

[VH_Supra26]

I think it looks way too much like a honda. And hondas are disgusting these days.

yup yup. i love the old NSX, but this thing ehh

[koolaider]

I doubt it will look like the picture posted above. That thing looks like an IS350 coupe or something

[white_panther]

That looks like a RSX

[Stevenc]

Theres no question the motor is going to be amazing, but honda needs alittle more flare in their design

[gfy]

Theres no question the motor is going to be amazing, but honda needs alittle more flare in their design

wrd, they need to bring Shigeru Uehara-san back...they're destroying his original creation. Where's the sleekness and sports car look? It looks like the new GTR. :gonk:

[mikesrex]

Oh Im not saying they cant do it fgt. By what I read I can already see it being a great performer, I just think they need to work on exterior of the car more. THe old NSX was nothing too fast to brag about but its exotic look is timeless and even keeps up with many of todays auto designs. Thats kinda what I picture when I hear NSX and that picture up there:down:. Then again, alot of Acura/Honda designs have been going down the shitter lately:-/

from what i understand the guy who designed all of the badass hondas isn't alive anymore. so now we have designs like the new civics, the rsx, etc....

[Vincent]

Doesn't look bad...just looks like something you'd see titled, "Honda introduces affordable $20,000 sports coupe to compete with Scion TC and Genesis Coupe."

[userdead626]

the past NSX was so much better than this one, looks like a regular sports car, like a Z or G37, not super car or exotic

I think everyone here knows that this is NOT what the car is going to look like!

[BrapKiLz]

I think everyone here knows that this is NOT what the car is going to look like!

Do you know something we don't? Please explain.

[OdyOwnage]

No Bueno...

[Replica]

I don't care what the specs are. The only 2 things that went through my head were "Honda" and "$160,000." Those two things together are a spectacular FAIL.

[i-vtec195]

I don't care what the specs are. The only 2 things that went through my head were "Honda" and "$160,000." Those two things together are a spectacular FAIL.

while we're all entitled to our opinion, as far as i see it: they build some of the best open wheel v10 powered racecars on the planet. i can only imagine what they cost. and most of the reason that league of racing consists of an all honda field, scratching ford/chevy/toyota/etc plants was their performance and reliability. i think they'll figure out how to apply that knowledge towards a production car.

[seinkonnen]

while we're all entitled to our opinion, as far as i see it: they build some of the best open wheel v10 powered racecars on the planet.


Except they don't. You must be forgetting how bad Honda does in Formula 1, where they actually have to compete with other companies (instead of competing against themselves) that build much better cars. And one of the main reasons they suck(ed) so bad in F1 was because of reliability. And guess how many times Team Honda has won a F1 race? Three. Three times since 1963 til now (their last win was in 2006). That's not a very good record.

Honda is not a racing powerhouse. They got good deals in IRL for supplying the motors, that's about it. In F1 they might as well not even show up, because no one would notice.

[seinkonnen]

Honda is also last in the 2008 F1 constructor standings. Toyota is 4th. And the other Honda team, Super Aguri-Honda, folded up shop.

[tienboi]

They took the exotic allure out of the NSX name and replaced it with "Lexus IS styling"

[HoHo]

these are just more renderings. will the real NSX please stand up?

[ScionGuyizCool]

accord coupe ?

[i-vtec195]

Except they don't. You must be forgetting how bad Honda does in Formula 1, where they actually have to compete with other companies (instead of competing against themselves) that build much better cars. And one of the main reasons they suck(ed) so bad in F1 was because of reliability. And guess how many times Team Honda has won a F1 race? Three. Three times since 1963 til now (their last win was in 2006). That's not a very good record.

Honda is not a racing powerhouse. They got good deals in IRL for supplying the motors, that's about it. In F1 they might as well not even show up, because no one would notice.

bar honda had a great showing a few years back. besides, aren't they running v8's in formula 1 at the moment? :stare: :stare: :stare:

[seinkonnen]

bar honda had a great showing a few years back. besides, aren't they running v8's in formula 1 at the moment? :stare: :stare: :stare:

Yes, but Honda has been in F1 since 1963 so they had plenty of V10 stuff out there and it didn't perform.

[mikesrex]

bar honda had a great showing a few years back. besides, aren't they running v8's in formula 1 at the moment? :stare: :stare: :stare:

look man, no matter how much you want to ignore it, the Japanese engineers aren't the best at making performance cars. Sure they can make some cheap quality cars to make loads of profit, but when it comes to winning races on a regular basis, you don't see them doing it. Maybe one day this will change.

[rice_a_licious]

accord coupe ?

wrd, beat me to it.

BTW, lovin your avatar!

[i-vtec195]

look man, no matter how much you want to ignore it, the Japanese engineers aren't the best at making performance cars.

nowhere did i ever say that the were the best. i've always considered the europeans to be the front runners over all. way to take it to a while new level. :idea:

[Jeebus]

nowhere did i ever say that the were the best. i've always considered the europeans to be the front runners over all. way to take it to a while new level. :idea:

Onto a while new level we go.

[i-vtec195]

Onto a while new level we go.

whole,* damn it. :hsugh: