The now infamous range-topping halo car known as the Acura NSX enjoyed a relatively long market run with minimal changes from 1990 through 2005 when the production run ended.
Since the NSX was ended, Acura fans have been begging for a worthy replacement, something Honda admits it was working on but then later canceled the project in 2008 amid global economic downturn. Now, according to a conversation between Honda CEO Takanobu Ito and Autocar, the Japanese automaker may yet again have something in the works to pick up where the NSX left off.
Ito was involved with the development of the original NSX, so he is quite familiar with what made that car special and such a fan favorite. The CEO also knows that anything that were to be made in its vein would have to follow the similar route of efficient and light-weight design, not just all-out power.
“You can’t depend on a high power output to call a car sporty anymore,” Ito explained. “The original NSX was about high power but also good driving performance, and today power-to-weight is what we have to focus on. The NSX was known for its aluminium body, so when we develop our new sportscar we don’t want to copy Ferrari for power, but to also chase efficiency as well.”
Ito also said during his interview that Honda already has its engineers “looking at developing such a car,” when referring to a sportscar “like the NSX,” but the CEO failed to clarify if the car would in fact be called NSX, or be an entirely different car completely.
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