First Look: 2016 Acura NSX...
The new Acura NSX isn't a "numbers" car. Yet. That is to say, at this point we don't have many numbers for it. We know it will have six cylinders arranged longitudinally in a V configuration, two turbochargers, three electric motors (two front, one rear), four driven wheels, and nine forward gears in its dual-clutch transmission, but even now, as the near-production version of the car sits in front of us on a clinically clean white floor somewhere in Honda's Southern California R&D facility, there's much we don't know. Engine displacement, horsepower (said to be north of 550 hp), torque, curb weight, and performance figures are undisclosed, even as the car's lead engineer, the affable Ted Klaus, stands next to it, beaming. "Wait until you drive it," Klaus says. "We'll tell you everything then."We're told the first media drives will be in July, and that's really not too much of a wait, especially considering we've been waiting nearly a decade since the original NSX left the market at the end of 2005. But now that we've seen the second coming of Acura's NSX in all of its composite and aluminum glory close enough to touch -- we've failed to resist that urge several times now -- to say we can't wait is like saying Formula 1 cars are fast. True, but oh, such an understatement. As sexy as the new NSX looks in this article, believe us when we say it's even better in real life. The road to this point has been a rocky one, filled with fits and starts, hopes and disappointments. When Klaus was assigned the NSX project several years ago, there had already been ideas on what a new NSX could look like. Klaus' first step was to do some research and meet the chief engineer on the original NSX project, Shigeru Uehara. "We met with the original NSX team and just discussed how that project really represented Acura's formative DNA," Klaus says. "We talked a lot about making a vehicle that really respects the driver. Acura was a brand that was formed on the value of making performance accessible to the driver."
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