Posts Tagged ‘NSX’

With the celebration of Honda’s 50 years in America, the 2009 Speciality Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, was a good opportunity to present many historic and equipped vehicle full with accessories. Apart from the Honda Accord Sedan that was on show with many Mugen accessories, Mr. Bruce Smith, vice president of Parts [...]

This will shake things around to all Honda fans and particular those who can’t wait to see if a new NSX successor may finally rise or not. Honda has formally announced that they will no longer use the NSX-GT in the GT500 class of the Super GT. The main reason is that the new rules [...]

Honda CEO, Takanobu Ito, revealed at the Tokyo Motor Show 2009 that Honda would consider to build “green” sports cars in the future that would represent the technology of Honda. He also mentioned that he made the decision to stop the development of the NSX successor. He did point out that the approach of the [...]

A sad day, that was, when the NSX successor project was canceled by Honda. It was back in February when Dick Colliver, executive vice president of American Honda Motor Co said that the NSX successor was mostly completed, but no “go” was given to bring it on production. However, John Watts, Acura’s senior manager has [...]

The rumors just keep coming, confusing everyone. This time rumors describe that the NSX successor will go hybrid and will be the competitor of Toyota’s FT-HS hybrid sports car. A hybrid sports car with a 3.5lt V6 engine that gives 450hps will probably be the answer to the long story of the NSX successor. Honda’s [...]

Honda announced that management changes will be made this year. Mr. Takanobu Ito will be the new President and CEO and will take the place of  Mr. Takeo Fukui by the end of June 2009. Mr. Ito joined Honda back in 1978, and began his career in the automobile’s R&D department, mainly as an engineer [...]

Honda Motor Co. Ltd. announced the motorsports strategy to claim the podium of the world class racing events.
Under the Honda NSX-GT Project within Japan, Honda is focused on reclaiming the double titles of individual and team championships in the Super GT. At Formula Nippon, Honda will supply three teams and five cars with the newly [...]

Since the NSX project was cancelled and hopes that it might survive, Acura’s plan to become a Tier 1 luxury brand is still ongoing and gives as an idea that the NSX successor will (hopefully) produced. The reasons of giving us this hope is the V8 engine, that will driven the Tier 1 status cars [...]

Although the NSX successor development was cancelled, Honda still spicing up her NSX existing model and a special concept was presented  at the Tokyo show. The concept is the NSX Mugen RR, a pure racing inspired version by Mugen.
The NSX Mugen RR is a show car with no engine and drivetrain and was created just [...]

Sad news, as what it seems to be the end of sport design by Honda.
According to a report in a British Magazine, plans of  the successor of the S2000, the V8 engine and the CRZ convertible are dropped off.
The convertible version of the new Honda CR-Z hybrid coupe is left aside and will not see [...]