Honda fans. No,
let me rephrase. Car fans in
general, should know there’s an all-new Honda NSX coming our way in 2015.
Original NSX was Honda’s halo car, a
sports star that frightened even the best supercars of its time. Honda is
pinning its hopes on this nostalgic
fact that buyers will flock into
showrooms to purchase the reincarnation.
In order to help it along, lots of testing
is being completed.
Some of this very testing was recently done at the 2.4-mile (3.9 kilometres) Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington,
USA. This was prior to the running of a Honda
Indy 200 race at the same place, hence the crowds you see in the pictures.
Being an NSX, it’s important that it
run well both on and off the race track, hence this particular test. And others. We expect to see it running
around the Nurburgring for instance,
during the 2014 European summer.
To recap, the new NSX will be powered by a mid-mounted V6 petrol motor coupled
with a hybrid system that Honda calls the Sport
Hybrid SH-AWD system. It essentially consists of three electric motors; one for the V6 and rear axle, while the
other two run the front axle. No performance
or power figures have been given out yet.
The 2016 Honda NSX will be produced in Ohio, USA, for the
global market under both the Honda and Acura
badges. Honda South Africa is busy
making its case for a few units to make their way to our shores. I sincerely
hope they succeed.
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