RUMOR: NSX development halted, Acura going back to drawing board

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Tokyo Motor Show, Acura, Honda


We (and many of you) were blown away by Acura's Advanced Sports Car Concept when it was unveiled at NAIAS in January. Though we were a bit disappointed the concept was only a non-running turntable tease, Honda assured everyone that an improved, closer-to-production show car was in the works for the October Tokyo show.

Winding Road says its sources have heard the contrary, that Honda is going back to the high-performance drawing board to come up with a more super supercar. Word is the ASC just isn't impressing as many people as it needs to be. Perhaps Honda management saw the ASC wasn't its company's best effort, and instead of dumping the project entirely (like Chrysler did with the ME Four-Twelve or Ford with the GR-1), it's committing the resources needed to create something truly special in the $100,000+ sport coupe segment. As such, we're not quite sure what we'll see in October at the Tokyo Auto Show, if anything at all.

At least this is what we hope they're doing. Honda could have scrapped the whole thing and reallocated the funds to development of the next generation Pilot. Eeek!

[Source: Winding Road]
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[ninous26]

BS!!!

Nobody knows the fate of the NSX... I say they should kill it.

[Swift]

well if it isn't good ol' ninous without a sense of what he is talking about yet again


Anyways, If you can Sky please change the title of the thread since it has been said the NSX nameplate IS NOT being brought back. Acura is bringing out another supercar and FE v10 AWD...but not the nameplate.

[dkrift]

Originally Posted by Swift

well if it isn't good ol' ninous without a sense of what he is talking about yet again


Anyways, If you can Sky please change the title of the thread since it has been said the NSX nameplate IS NOT being brought back. Acura is bringing out another supercar and FE v10 AWD...but not the nameplate.

That thread is automatically retrieved and posted. The original article is what the title is, so not much Sky did or can do.

[spyder5786]

Originally Posted by Swift

well if it isn't good ol' ninous without a sense of what he is talking about yet again


Anyways, If you can Sky please change the title of the thread since it has been said the NSX nameplate IS NOT being brought back. Acura is bringing out another supercar and FE v10 AWD...but not the nameplate.

It's the NSX succesor; whether it will be called the NSX or not is yet to be seen. Also they whole point of this rumor is that they are scraping thet AASC and coming out with a new design...so hopefully no more AWD and no FR bullcrap.

[QKSLVER03]

I liked the HSC way better. It had all the right ingredients for a true NSX successor and it was beautifully designed.

[ninous26]

Originally Posted by Swift

well if it isn't good ol' ninous without a sense of what he is talking about yet again


Anyways, If you can Sky please change the title of the thread since it has been said the NSX nameplate IS NOT being brought back. Acura is bringing out another supercar and FE v10 AWD...but not the nameplate.

With out a sense of what Im talking about, but you bring up this "V10 AWD" stuff because you read it somewhere... cool.

Anyways, its nice to see what you are doing for the legend community.

[new-b]

I really wasn't diggin the advanced concept. I think it would be great if they re-design it. I agree with QKSLVER03, the HSC was awsome and would have been a way cooler successor to the NSX.