Showing posts with label Acura NSX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acura NSX. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Next Acura NSX to have more Performance than the GT-R (and cost more too!)

While Honda doesn’t seem to be a fan of V8s, a V10 is a whole different story. According to the company’s Executive Vice President Koichi Kondo, the V10 powered NSX is on the way and Honda will do all it can to make it the best sports car in its category.

This sort of discussion was made between the American Honda people and r&d people, and some people were questioning whether it’s really necessary to have a V-10,” Kondo said in an interview with Automotive News. “But sports is a special category. We said if we’re going to do it, we’re going to go to the extreme.”

Kondo said that Honda is expecting to sell 1,000 units of the NSX in the U.S. annually. The NSX is rumored to carry a price tag of $160,000 when it debuts as a 2011 model year.

Kondo says that while the price tag may be well above the NSX’s $70,000 Nissan GT-R rival, it will also have better performance.

Source;
http://www.egmcartech.com/2008/10/13/acura-nsx-to-cost-twice-as-much-as-gt-r-will-have-better-performance/#more-26912

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Art Designer Leon Paz Comes up with a Modern Acura Concept

Acura's new design language, as seen on the 2009 TL, is fronted by a shield-like appendage that has received mixed reviews. The Acura 2+1 -- the numbers describe the seating arrangement -- by design student Leon Paz is what would happen if you took the shield theme to one natural conclusion. By maintaining the edge throughout the concept's "modern baroque styling," Paz has come up we something we kinda dig.

The body is fashioned from a plastic that is harder than fiberglass, and Paz has done a great job in creating lines that evoke skin stretched over a frame. The upper surface is one continuous window that shows off the twin-turbo V6 and the Acura logo for the cylinder covers. There is no hood -- at your yearly service, the dealer would lift the glass and perform any engine maintenance.

The 2+1 would be an aspirational step for those who want an NSX but can't afford one yet. Based on what we've seen of the NSX so far, we'd probably rather have the 2+1. However, our most pressing question about the car isn't about the design -- we really want to know what is the meaning of "OW AHH" scrolled in LED's across the rear? Check out the gallery of high-res images below, and maybe you can tell us...

Source;
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/20/acura-2-1-design-study-takes-superman-shield-to-next-level/

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

200th POST! And Even More Next Gen Acura NSX Pic's

200th POST!!!!!!!
Wow, this car has almost achieved cult status with the amount of renderings it is getting!

Btw; 200th post.

Monday, March 31, 2008

New Honda NSX?

2010 is the expected year of the introduction of this car. Just a rendering folks. The next gen Acura NSX is supposed to be a Porche and GT-R killer. Easier said than done, I must say that the GT-R is going to be one helluva car.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Next Generation Honda / Acura NSX

Here's a sneak peak of what the next generation Acura (Honda pretty much every where else) NSX may look like.