The NSX is making a return...

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On any modernly tired MR car, you can't really power oversteer to solve understeer issues. In fact, applying throttle is generally how you reduce oversteer while mid-corner, with any oversteer typically being the result of lift-off.

Honestly, driving a setup FF and an MR car have more in common than an FR vs an MR, minus very low speed power oversteer induction, and even then that is a gamble in the MR car. Well, pushing an MR car in general is a bit of a gamble, and pushing one on a real world road is a touch nerve-wracking. The orginal NSX was relatively stable as a result of the wheelbase, not so much being an MR car.

And I don't recall you answering the question of whether you've actually driven an MR car. So, have you?
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He did answer it even if a bit veiled and it was no. He is basically using video games as his experience, and justifying how good the video games he use are to the rest of us, to provide a sufficient basis (which will never work with us) that gives him a viable reason to use it in place of real world experience he doesn't have.
 
The new NSX will have the performance of a Ferrari 458 at the price of a Audi R8. Will see a production version at the '15 Tokyo motor show.

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The new Honda NSX will go on sale early in 2016 be aimed at the Ferrari 458 Italia in terms of performance, according to Ted Klaus, the NSX's head of development.

'We have to achieve the type of acceleration that the customer is achieving with the Ferrari,' said Klaus. 'More importantly we have to achieve this every day and also at the Nurburgring.'

However, he said that the intention is to keep Honda's new petrol-electric hybrid supercar more affordable than the 458. 'I think we are aiming within the range of the Audi R8,' he said. 'I realise that is a wide range but the NSX will still be extremely accessible.'

Klaus also said that Honda aims to match the sales figure of the Audi R8, rather than those of the much more popular Porsche 911. 'We will not seek to meet demand – there is value in making the product rare,' he said.

However, while there might not be loads of NSXs sold, customers are eventually likely to have a choice of different bodystyles and power outputs.

'I think we would be foolish to develop NSX without open-top intentions down the road,' said Klaus. 'Should you do a convertible first, should you do a higher performance version first – these are challenges for us to consider.'

He also said that Honda is planning to make the new NSX the cleanest and most efficient supercar in its class. 'The 911 is the most efficient performance car today and we will be well clear of that.'

Honda has shown a racing version of the new NSX, which features a 2.0-litre petrol engine and a 'racing hybrid system'. The production version is due on sale in 2015, initially in North America, with Europe getting cars shortly afterwards.

The production version is set to be revealed at the November 2015 Tokyo motor show, with sales following in the Uk from early 2016. To date, 80 customers have pre-ordered cars in the UK.
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Target a car that will be replaced the year you release your car? Sure, okay!

I'm beginning to wonder if the NSX will ever actually go on sale. It feels like it's been longer than the LF-A's drawn out situation.
 
Not cabforwardish as the first one. Very R8 in its cab location. Will it be as pure as as the first two generations?
 
This new iteraton of the NSX looks stuning, but I can;t help but think about the original formula for success for the NSX. For the price of an NSX on it's debut, it would humiliate cars that were twice it's cost. I remember it being dubbed "the affordable supercar".

It looks great, but for the price; will it perform better than an M3/M4? Granted there is a vast amount of upgrades and features going into this vehicle that will make it a veru sought after car, but for me, I would honestly prefer the original :)
 
Havok_
This new iteraton of the NSX looks stuning, but I can;t help but think about the original formula for success for the NSX. For the price of an NSX on it's debut, it would humiliate cars that were twice it's cost. I remember it being dubbed "the affordable supercar".

It looks great, but for the price; will it perform better than an M3/M4? Granted there is a vast amount of upgrades and features going into this vehicle that will make it a veru sought after car, but for me, I would honestly prefer the original :)
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true, one of the nsx's strong point was its affordable cost.
But this is happening with every car, you get a few zeroes in your price or you'll get dumped.
(see the GT-R35,FT-1 etc) slowly growing to the supercar status
 
Havok_
This new iteraton of the NSX looks stuning, but I can;t help but think about the original formula for success for the NSX. For the price of an NSX on it's debut, it would humiliate cars that were twice it's cost. I remember it being dubbed "the affordable supercar".

It looks great, but for the price; will it perform better than an M3/M4? Granted there is a vast amount of upgrades and features going into this vehicle that will make it a veru sought after car, but for me, I would honestly prefer the original :)
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Their performance target is the Ferrari 458, so I would hope it's faster than an M3.
 
Havok_
This new iteraton of the NSX looks stuning, but I can;t help but think about the original formula for success for the NSX. For the price of an NSX on it's debut, it would humiliate cars that were twice it's cost. I remember it being dubbed "the affordable supercar".

It looks great, but for the price; will it perform better than an M3/M4? Granted there is a vast amount of upgrades and features going into this vehicle that will make it a veru sought after car, but for me, I would honestly prefer the original :)
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Don't know that it was ever really the 'affordable supercar'. It was $80k in 1996. An M3 was $39k and a 300ZX was $45k, both of which had similar performance.
 
Wow, you are correct. I am looking at an old MT article and the MSRP is 85K! Umm, I stand corrected. I'd still take a used one though :)
 
Honestly, I'm having a pretty hard time finding anything I like about that car. It looks good, but there's nothing in it reminding me of the old NSX. Aside from the tail light maybe. And since there are other "comfortable supercars" out there now, I'm not seeing what'll make it as groundbreaking as the original NSX. I get that it's one of those "get with the times" moments, but I just don't see any qualities that made the old NSX so charming.

Then again, it's not even out yet, so I shouldn't be mouthing off as if it's gonna be terrible. I'm just not sure it's a good idea to link it up to the old NSX, considering this new one seems completely different.
 
Gordon Murray mentioned, if he was ever in the market to get a super car, he'd get an NSX like the one he had.
 
RACECAR
And look what was spotted on the track two weeks ago:




Its Baaaaaaaack.
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I was just wondering about this car and was quite afraid of Honda pulling another HSV-010 all over again, it's good to see the project is still alive and closer to reality. Will we see it on the road on 2015??
 
With all the hype that was put into this (which is more then can be said about the HSV), I doubt they would've just dropped it like that. The HSV primarily only existed because Honda had no FR car that was of comparable range with the GT-R so it was basically a stop gap while Super GT had written rules that strickly forbidden MR cars in GT500.
 
The production version of NSX will be unveiled at the Detroit auto show.


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TheCracker
Makes you wonder who's placed those 100 orders for a car that is as yet totally unproven?

£90k is still a lot of money for a Honda. I imagine a lot of speculators have put in those deposits.
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I wonder what the original would cost today with inflation factored in.
 
RocZX
The production version of NSX will be unveiled at the Detroit auto show.


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Looks a lot like the concept. Though Honda does have a thing for thinly veiled "concept" vehicles. I'm not complaining. And I'm excited. Though slightly impatient because it's taken so long for Honda to reveal the car. Though thankfully, the wait is almost over! I can't wait. It's like Honda was specifically timing it so that the car can be released in the 2015 calendar year, cause that's the 10th anniversary of the discontinuation of the original NSX.
 
Naveek Darkroom
It's like Honda was specifically timing it so that the car can be released in the 2015 calendar year, cause that's the 10th anniversary of the discontinuation of the original NSX.
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Oh put down the tin foil hat, that is absurd, and I doubt they will make a big deal of it with the NewSX, with something like aluminium accents for the inside and outside of the car (10th anniversary, geddit?), and they definitley definitley wont limit them to something like 2005 units world wide...
 
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