Gordon Murray is a renowned designer of Formula One race cars and the famous and ultra wicked awesome McLaren F1 supercar. This is a translated reflection on the ACURA NSX by the Automotive Rockstar Designer himself.
To this day, the NSX is still a car that is near and dear to my heart. I put 75,000 Km on my NSX over the course of six or seven years.
It’s very difficult to discuss the NSX using current values and sensibilities. When the NSX debuted, the word “supercar” was still a relatively new idea in Europe. There are some who would say the Lamborghini Miura from the late 1960s was the first supercar. However, the truth is the explosion of modern supercars really started at the end of the 1980s.
Top tuners in the Nissan and Honda sectors come together for the first time on US ground. Mine’s Motorsports president Michizo Niikura explains and shows us Mine’s Motorsports Tuned Nissan R35 GT-R (Also checkout 600hp Nissan GT-R – Amuse Tuned) and Spoon president Tatsuru Ichishima explains the limited production NSX-R GT.
Daijiro Yoshihara drives the Mine?s GT-R and Tyler McQuarrie drives the Spoon NSX-R GT
We have recently been treated to several zebra-pattern camouflage 2010 NSX spottings in June at the Nurbrugring in Germany and as a result here are some speculative renderings to surface of Honda’s new V10 powered Acura NSX replacement.
FINALLY!!! Honda has apparently started testing pre-production prototypes of its highly anticipated 2010Acura NSX, as speculated by these recent spy photos taken in Germany.
Honda originally planned to show off the next generation NSX to the seething throngs at last year’s Tokyo Motor Show. But due to some rough reception the Acura Advanced Sports Car concept took at the Detroit show, Honda’s designers headed back to their drawing boards to redesign the front clip on this 550 hp, 4.5-liter V10.
Confirming widespread speculation, American Honda Motor Co. Inc. CEO Tesuo Iwamura told WardsAuto.com “We are developing it without any delay, so most probably we will have it in the period we already promised”. The car will arrive in 2010.
However, 2010 is at least a year later than the 2008-2009 time frame earlier set by Honda Motor Co. Ltd. CEO Takeo Fukui.
“We are now focused on the development of a new model to succeed the Acura NSX for a new era,” Fukui said in a July 2005 speech. “We would like to debut a new super sports car equipped with a V-10 engine in three to four years.”
Last January, Honda unveiled the Acura Advanced Sports Car concept (see photo below) at the North American International Auto Show, saying it hinted at the new Acura NSX.