Earlier this month, Honda’s CEO Takanobu Ito shocked enthusiasts everywhere when he confirmed that the company is working on a new sports car that will be the “spiritual successor” to the discontinued Acura NSX. Instead of a 600-hp 5.5L V10 engine, as the successor of the NSX was supposed to have during early stages of development a couple years [...]
Here is some nice enthusiast news to kick-off your day. Honda’s CEO Takanobu Ito has officially confirmed that the company is working on a new sports car that will be the “spiritual successor” to the discontinued Acura NSX. Recent reports suggest that the successor to the NSX will not get a 600-hp 5.5L V10, but [...]
Since Acura/Honda had stopped making the world’s best handling mid-engined car, the NSX, back in 2005, they’ve been toying with replacement ideas, all of which never made it into production. So we’ve kind of lost hope for the pioneering Japanese luxury brand, despite the Honda subsidiary confirming plans for a new sports car. After Honda’s [...]
According to Japan’s Mainichi News, Honda’s president Takashi Ito has announced that the company will be renewing its development on a replacement for the Honda NSX supercar. Ito said that original plans to put the Honda / Acura NSX into production were on hold due to the Lehman Shock (Japanese for Global Financial Crisis) in [...]
In 2008, Honda had talked of a successor to the popular NSX supercar – however, the Japanese automaker couldn’t find a business case to develop the car. According to insiders, Honda never gave up on the plans for an NSX successor and the car is expected to live on in a different form. The next [...]
The Honda NSX, or Acura NSX in North America, was a very popular sports car that the Japanese automaker produced between 1990 and 2005 (if you don’t know the Honda/Acura NSX, then you basically aren’t that well educated in cars). The mid-engined, rear-wheel-drive sports car ended production in 2005 after a few hundred vehicles sold [...]
Ever since Honda unveiled its HSV-10 Super GT race car, a model which is based on the NSX that Honda says will never be, we’ve been left craving a road-going version. According to a report (rumor) by AutoBild, Honda is now working on a road-legal version of the HSV-10 Super GT. Of course we’re a bit [...]
Last week, Honda unveiled its HSV-10 GT Super GT race car, a model which is based on the Acura / Honda NSX that we’ll never get to see on the roads. The front-engined HSV-10 GT is powered by a 3.4L V8 making more than 500-hp mated to a Ricardo sequential gearbox. The HSV-10 GT was [...]
About a month ago, we told you that the next-generation Acura / Honda NSX could get a second chance at life as a front-engined race car and could be revived courtesy of a change in the rules of Japan”s Super GT racing series. Well, here it is… at least an image of it with very [...]
Last year, Honda shelved plans or a new-generation Acura NSX. However, it is now reported that plans for a front-engined replacement for the supercar could be revived courtesy of a change in the rules of Japan’s Super GT racing series. According to a report by PistonHeads, Super GT regulations banning mid-engined layouts could give the [...]
