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September 10, 2005

    The NSX Lives!      

Just weeks after Honda announces that they would build their first V-8 for their high end models they deliver more good news with the promise of  a high power V-10 model for a new NSX automobile. Almost amazingly we will probably see the new V-10 NSX automobile for sale before we see the V-8 Ridgeline or the V-8 RL. This is because the word on the street is that the new NSX auto will go on sale in early 2007 as a 2008 model, Nissan’s Skyline GT-R should be out by 2007 this makes the reason for this rush to market simple, with Toyota’s LF-A surely arriving as a 2008 model Honda doesn’t want to miss the party.

Maybe it was the fact that Toyota’s LF-A is going to have A V-10 that led Honda to bypass the V-8 for the new NSX auto and go with a V-10. More likely it was that Honda has always viewed the NSX as a Japanese version of an Italian supercar. With the V-12 now becoming the standard engine used in the Italian imports Honda felt that a V-8 would not give the NSX auto the exoticness that Honda was looking for. Both the Skyline and the LF-A will get around 450 horsepower, The NSX will only get around 400. The method that Honda will use to get the NSX up to world beating numbers is simple. The NSX will weigh less then the others and will have a much more futuristic look. Because it happened about 14 years ago it is easy to forget that when the NSX came out it was the most exotic car on the planet. This was because it wasn’t built by Ferrari or Lotus it was built by a company famous for building economical and dependable cars, not exotic and exclusive ones.

When the NSX first appeared in 1991 it was the First production car to use an all aluminum body. It is only now that we know what this really means; most NSX models are still on the road. You can pick up an early one for about $20,000. To compare that with say VW GTI’s from the same era and we find that these cars are vanishing from the roads, for it is no longer economically sensible for their owners to drive them. Expect an even more durable body this time around as Honda will use carbon fiber for the hood, fenders, roof, and doors and aluminum for everything else. Besides the car being fairly immune to the weather these high tech components will trim sufficient weight of the vehicle to get the car under 3,000 pounds compared with 3,200 for a current NSX. 

- Automotive Insider
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