HONDA NSX RETURNS
Honda NSX allotment Avengers cine car previews new supercar. It’ll get new V6 engine with accompanying electric motors
The allegorical Honda NSX supercar is back. These spy shots, taken on the set of the new Avengers movie, actualization a new Acura-badged Audi R8-sized supercar that previews a almsman to the NSX.
Acura is Honda’s US-only affluence cast and the sports car was spotted in Central Park, New York, with amateur Robert Downey Jr at the wheel. Its actualization is badly cogent for admirers agog to see Honda acknowledgment to the supercar arena.
Honda CEO Takanobu Ito afresh hinted at the NSX’s revival, if he revealed: “We’re authoritative advance with affairs for an alien sports car.” And six months ago, Ito said Honda was agog to relaunch a high-performance sports car like the NSX.
A Honda antecedent told us that the Dual Note 4WD amalgam abstraction from the 2001 Tokyo Motor Actualization was our aboriginal glimpse at the technology that will affirm the NSX. It acclimated a 3.5-litre V6 to drive the rear auto and in-wheel electric motors to about-face the fronts, breeding over 400bhp.
Ten years later, Honda is still perfecting the technology. A antecedent said: “Honda wants to physique a supercar that break the mould while creating a new abstruse package.”
Honda is alive on a VTEC V6 engine of amid 3.5 to 3.7 litres, while the accompanying electric motor start-up will be powered by lithium-ion batteries and apply a constituent recharge arrangement for a baby electric-only range. The aftereffect will be huge amounts of torque, but aswell the high-revving appearance Hondas are acclaimed for.
The car will aswell accept a weight-saving aluminium body, and is set to go auction by 2014, priced at a Nissan GT-R-rivalling £65,000.
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