Production NSX Debut 1.12.15 **WATCH LIVE**
01-09-2015, 02:20 PM
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Production NSX Debut 1.12.15 **WATCH LIVE**
So in four days, the production version of this bad boy will be unveiled.
Acura NSX Production Model to Make World Debut at 2015 North American International Auto Show
TORRANCE, Calif. U.S.A., December 17, 2014 - The production version of the highly anticipated Acura NSX supercar, successor to the legendary original NSX, will make its world debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show on January 12, 2015. The model will reflect the production design and specifications of the mid-engine Acura supercar that is slated to launch in 2015. To celebrate the impending debut of NSX, Acura released a 30-second teaser video that gives an early glimpse of the production car and the sound of its three-motor, twin-turbocharged Sport Hybrid power unit. View the video on Acura’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/Acura.
“The next-generation NSX will deliver a ‘new sports experience’ true to its heritage and to the supercar concept that originally gave rise to the name NSX,” said Mike Accavitti, Acura division senior vice president and general manager. “The NSX will serve as the ultimate expression of Acura performance that is fueling a reenergized brand.”
An Acura NSX concept model made its debut at the 2012 North American International Auto Show, where Honda Motor Co., Ltd. President & CEO Takanobu Ito announced that development of a next-generation NSX would launch in three years, led by an American R&D team and produced at a state-of-the-art new plant in Ohio.
“After three years of intensive development work we are excited to reveal this next-generation supercar—the Acura NSX—to the world,” said Ted Klaus, chief engineer and global project leader over NSX development. “We’ve developed a human-centered supercar that responds to the will of the driver and that builds upon the NSX heritage.”
The next milestone in the launch of the NSX will be the reveal of the production version at the Acura press conference at the North American International Auto Show on January 12 at 11:50 a.m. ET. Watch the press conference live at youtube.com/Acura.
The NSX is being developed by a global team of engineers led by the company’s North American R&D operations in Raymond, Ohio, with design led by the Acura Design Studio in Torrance, CA. The Acura NSX will be produced exclusively at the new Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio, using domestic and globally sourced parts.
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Acura NSX Production Model to Make World Debut at 2015 North American International Auto Show
TORRANCE, Calif. U.S.A., December 17, 2014 - The production version of the highly anticipated Acura NSX supercar, successor to the legendary original NSX, will make its world debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show on January 12, 2015. The model will reflect the production design and specifications of the mid-engine Acura supercar that is slated to launch in 2015. To celebrate the impending debut of NSX, Acura released a 30-second teaser video that gives an early glimpse of the production car and the sound of its three-motor, twin-turbocharged Sport Hybrid power unit. View the video on Acura’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/Acura.
“The next-generation NSX will deliver a ‘new sports experience’ true to its heritage and to the supercar concept that originally gave rise to the name NSX,” said Mike Accavitti, Acura division senior vice president and general manager. “The NSX will serve as the ultimate expression of Acura performance that is fueling a reenergized brand.”
An Acura NSX concept model made its debut at the 2012 North American International Auto Show, where Honda Motor Co., Ltd. President & CEO Takanobu Ito announced that development of a next-generation NSX would launch in three years, led by an American R&D team and produced at a state-of-the-art new plant in Ohio.
“After three years of intensive development work we are excited to reveal this next-generation supercar—the Acura NSX—to the world,” said Ted Klaus, chief engineer and global project leader over NSX development. “We’ve developed a human-centered supercar that responds to the will of the driver and that builds upon the NSX heritage.”
The next milestone in the launch of the NSX will be the reveal of the production version at the Acura press conference at the North American International Auto Show on January 12 at 11:50 a.m. ET. Watch the press conference live at youtube.com/Acura.
The NSX is being developed by a global team of engineers led by the company’s North American R&D operations in Raymond, Ohio, with design led by the Acura Design Studio in Torrance, CA. The Acura NSX will be produced exclusively at the new Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio, using domestic and globally sourced parts.
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01-11-2015, 08:29 PM
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As part of the festivities of the debut, Acura gave out this 1/43 model. Car looks…awesome. And I'd wager the production car looks better than the concept. I know it's longer by 3" and wider by 1" and runs 235/45 ZR19 front and 295/30 ZR20 rear tires.
Anyway, here's the model that shall soon be mine one of these days:
Anyway, here's the model that shall soon be mine one of these days:
01-12-2015, 12:54 PM
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Dayuuuuuuuummm that's friggen NICE!!! Time to save up and borrow some money....I heard its around $90,000-up ??
01-13-2015, 01:54 AM
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01-13-2015, 02:08 AM
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They nailed it, looks great and still somehow carries the character of the original. $150k, yow. I'll hang out for the trickle down S2K replacement maybe 
01-13-2015, 04:14 AM
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Still surprised at the one screen on the console. It must have an infotainment system that's unique to the NSX. All the others are using an 8" upper screen in combination with a lower 7" touch screen.
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The large center **** below the screen is supposed to be "large enough to operate with gloved hands". So maybe they decided to go that route for the on-screen control rather than touch screen?
01-14-2015, 05:37 AM
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Although it was panned in the beginning, people like it now that they've got used to it.
And as other people have said, go use (or try to use) that damned Lexus mouse and then tell me there's something wrong with the Acura 8_7 system.
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More Live pictures of the new NSX from Geneva 2015
I am so glad they went with these wheels, the concept wheels where a fail.
19 pictures and video in the gallery
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I am so glad they went with these wheels, the concept wheels where a fail.
19 pictures and video in the gallery
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04-08-2015, 03:42 PM
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2016 Acura NSX Dissected: Powertrain, Chassis, and More
Repeatedly rewired in flight, the future NSX sure isn't what it used to be.
Source: 2016 Acura NSX Dissected: Powertrain, Chassis, and More ? Feature ? Car and Driver
Repeatedly rewired in flight, the future NSX sure isn't what it used to be.
Acura clearly wants to get this thing right. The original aluminum-intensive 1991 NSX was a stunner, a sunrise of engineering inspiration that chased away the darkness in the realm of sports cars and laid bare the multitude of sins being committed there. For the first time, a large automaker that took quality seriously had applied itself to a segment rampant with all manner of pop-riveted, glued-up, hammered-down, and wiggy-wired silliness. In the presence of the $60,000 NSX, the self-important air-puffed mediocrities of the eroti-car industry scurried for cover.
It didn’t last. Everybody else got better, with newer and faster cars, while the NSX mainly just got more expensive, chained as it was to the rapidly inflating yen. The final targa-topped NSX went off the line in 2005, and hardly anybody noticed. Since then, Acura has launched, scrubbed, relaunched, rescrubbed, and re-relaunched projects intended to replace it. In the first two tries, the car got as far as a fully styled and drivable prototype, which in NASA parlance is 30 feet above the moon, before Acura aborted.
It didn’t last. Everybody else got better, with newer and faster cars, while the NSX mainly just got more expensive, chained as it was to the rapidly inflating yen. The final targa-topped NSX went off the line in 2005, and hardly anybody noticed. Since then, Acura has launched, scrubbed, relaunched, rescrubbed, and re-relaunched projects intended to replace it. In the first two tries, the car got as far as a fully styled and drivable prototype, which in NASA parlance is 30 feet above the moon, before Acura aborted.
There was that coupe with the V-10 in its big schnoz screaming around the Nürburgring in 2008. Corporate canned it later that year, figuring out something that To*yota never did during development of the Lexus LFA: An interstellar unicorn that is seriously into six figures will do little for a brand that sells most of its vehicles for less than $50,000. The next attempt was a Porsche 911 fighter. It was a mid-transverse hybrid that plucked the parts bin for a version of Honda’s ubiquitous 3.5-liter V-6. Concept cars were shown, Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld made a Super Bowl ad for one of them, and a fully clothed prototype circled Mid-Ohio in August 2013 in front of thousands of IndyCar fans.
But even as NSX version 3.0 made its first glory laps, Acura had already decided to scrap major elements of the design. According to NSX project leader Ted Klaus—notably not a Japanese citizen, for this project is U.S.-based—it was in mid-2012 that “the performance targets were changed.” Meaning upped considerably, to confront an era in which Nissan GT-Rs have more than 500 horsepower and a Dodge Charger can make more than 700. According to Klaus, the transverse, single-cam 3.5 was maxed out trying to make just so-so power, which didn’t give the NSX any room to grow. So it was back to the CAD stations for changes.
But even as NSX version 3.0 made its first glory laps, Acura had already decided to scrap major elements of the design. According to NSX project leader Ted Klaus—notably not a Japanese citizen, for this project is U.S.-based—it was in mid-2012 that “the performance targets were changed.” Meaning upped considerably, to confront an era in which Nissan GT-Rs have more than 500 horsepower and a Dodge Charger can make more than 700. According to Klaus, the transverse, single-cam 3.5 was maxed out trying to make just so-so power, which didn’t give the NSX any room to grow. So it was back to the CAD stations for changes.
Out went the shared 3.5 and in went an all-new, longitudinally mounted, dry-sump, twin-turbo, four-cam, 75-degree 3.5-liter V-6 with exactly nothing major in common with any other Honda production engine. Not even bore centers are shared. A new, nine-speed dual-clutch gearbox integrated with an electric motor drives the rear wheels and collaborates with two electric motors that power the front wheels. Total output is a secret, but plan on more than 550 horsepower. The NSX is back to stalking Ferraris again.
The upside of the engine swap is more power; the downsides are huge increases in cost and complexity, plus a decentralizing of the powertrain mass.
The car’s styling has also morphed, the changes including another radiator opening up front and much larger corner and side ducts, plus a couple of hood vents, all to service 10 separate cooling circuits with airflow. Undoubtedly, curb weight is up as well, probably to around 3700 pounds, though the final figure is still guarded.
The upside of the engine swap is more power; the downsides are huge increases in cost and complexity, plus a decentralizing of the powertrain mass.
The car’s styling has also morphed, the changes including another radiator opening up front and much larger corner and side ducts, plus a couple of hood vents, all to service 10 separate cooling circuits with airflow. Undoubtedly, curb weight is up as well, probably to around 3700 pounds, though the final figure is still guarded.
Indeed, Acura is drip-dripping the details on this car, but we know that the 2016 “New Sports eXperience” is considerably wider than the original while sur*prisingly not much longer, given its new north-south powertrain. Its 103.5-inch wheelbase is just a 3.9-inch stretch from the 2005 NSX, while overall length grows by only 1.8 inches, providing a trunk roomy enough for a set of golf clubs. However, the spec Klaus is perhaps most proud of is the center of gravity, said to be more than an inch lower than the original NSX’s.
The new space-frame structure, joined by self-piercing rivets, flow-drill screws, welding, and lots of adhesive, is described as aluminum-intensive. That means there’s also high-strength steel in the superthin A-pillars (another point of pride for the NSX team) and a carbon-fiber floor panel. Acura uses a supposedly novel—also undisclosed—aluminum-casting technology for part of the rear subframe, providing ample stiffness with low weight. The hood and doors are aluminum while the fenders are SMC (sheet molding compound, a common form of fiberglass). Buyers have the option of an aluminum or carbon-fiber roof.
The new space-frame structure, joined by self-piercing rivets, flow-drill screws, welding, and lots of adhesive, is described as aluminum-intensive. That means there’s also high-strength steel in the superthin A-pillars (another point of pride for the NSX team) and a carbon-fiber floor panel. Acura uses a supposedly novel—also undisclosed—aluminum-casting technology for part of the rear subframe, providing ample stiffness with low weight. The hood and doors are aluminum while the fenders are SMC (sheet molding compound, a common form of fiberglass). Buyers have the option of an aluminum or carbon-fiber roof.
Acura describes the suspension as “*conventional multilinks” enhanced with magnetorheological self-adjusting dampers. Buyers can opt for carbon-ceramic brakes, though four-wheel steering has been left off, we’re told, in the *interest of low mass. Continental Conti**Sport*Contact 5P tires, sized 235/45 up front and 295/30 in back, will mount on 19- and 20-inch wheels, respectively.
In principle, the NSX operates like a Porsche 918 Spyder, able to drive electrically or on engine torque alone, though the first mode is mainly a gimmick. One big electric motor located at the front of the transaxle can power the car up to 50 mph for a few miles in a quiet mode. The lithium-ion battery pack behind the seats is too small to supply more. On the front axle, the “Twin Motor Unit” drives each wheel separately through planetary gearsets that allow the motors to provide torque-vectoring capability in concert with the brakes at the rear. Four driver-selectable modes—quiet, sport, sport-plus, and track—progressively ratchet up the car’s aggression level.
In principle, the NSX operates like a Porsche 918 Spyder, able to drive electrically or on engine torque alone, though the first mode is mainly a gimmick. One big electric motor located at the front of the transaxle can power the car up to 50 mph for a few miles in a quiet mode. The lithium-ion battery pack behind the seats is too small to supply more. On the front axle, the “Twin Motor Unit” drives each wheel separately through planetary gearsets that allow the motors to provide torque-vectoring capability in concert with the brakes at the rear. Four driver-selectable modes—quiet, sport, sport-plus, and track—progressively ratchet up the car’s aggression level.
Lots of money and effort was flushed in the pursuit of what Klaus calls “a human-centered supercar,” but the end result, designed and built in Marysville, Ohio, will be a technical thunderclap destined to reach customers before the end of the year. This latest iteration, let’s call it version 3.5, shows who won the marketing struggle over where to drop the marker: the guys originally proposing the Amex Centurion NSX. The ’16 NSX will start around $150,000 and probably sell closer to $170,000 or $180,000 with options. An even hotter version (a Type R, perhaps?) will arrive later and perhaps break the $200,000 mark. Sitting right beside this new NSX in Acura showrooms will be the brand’s next-most-expensive car, the RLX sedan, with a current base price of $49,370.
Will Acura be able to put enough of these assuredly fabulous NSXs on the road to in any way help the brand’s sleepy image? That may be the next big challenge.
Will Acura be able to put enough of these assuredly fabulous NSXs on the road to in any way help the brand’s sleepy image? That may be the next big challenge.
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