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http://blog.caranddriver.com/dont-ca...orts-car-plan/

Don’t Call It NSX: Acura Confirms Sports-Car Plan
February 7, 2011 at 1:12 pm by Justin Berkowitz


Honda’s president recently told a Japanese business newspaper that the company continues work on a new sports car, and the project has now been confirmed to us by an American Acura executive. The company line is that this new car will not follow up the NSX, of course—Acura told us that last summer that the mid-engined car was “too high a halo“and that the next sports car wouldn’t be as ambitious or as highly priced. The vehicle that was to pick up the NSX’s torch, a V-10–powered supercar tested at the Nürburgring, was fitted for cement shoes and dumped off Tokyo’s Rainbow Bridge due to the usual concerns of high cost and obscene consumption. We also know that it won’t use a V-8, since that engine program was axed some time ago, as was further development of the company’s general rear-wheel-drive platform.

Only a chemically imbalanced optimist could react to these facts without tearing up, but at the minimum, the information helps give shape to Honda’s plans. An Acura spokesperson tells us that what it terms a “sports model” will “meet the needs of the current times and customers,” and that it would be an “exciting model that also achieves outstanding environmental and safety performance.” Based on that, as well as the company’s current platforms and engines, the sports car is likely to be a front-engined, all-wheel-driver with a V-6 that could be turbocharged or possibly even hybridized. While that could have the makings of an outstanding grand tourer with true continent-spanning range, it could also turn out to be the equivalent of an Acura RL coupe with the dull charm of the Honda CR-Z. Without a rear-drive platform, it seems unlikely that we’ll see something as visceral as the S2000—never mind the NSX.

Whatever form is decided for its sports car, neither the Japanese HQ nor its American outpost has said yet when we can expect to see the vehicle, even in concept form. The new car may not be positioned as a successor to the NSX, but let’s hope the company’s foray into Ferrari-baiting at least serves as inspiration.

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/04/r...has-restarted/

Report: Honda confirms NSX development has restarted
by Zach Bowman (RSS feed) on Feb 4th 2011 at 4:56PM

Heads up, Hondaphiles – it looks like the NSX has been dug out of storage and plopped back on the table as a candidate for production. Company president Takashi Ito has announced that he's jump-starting development on the supercar. As you may recall, the beast was unceremoniously put to bed after the global economy gutted itself back in 2008. At the time, the project sailed under the HSV-010 moniker, and Honda even went so far as to campaign a version of the machine in the Japanese Super GT series.

Since then, the supercar segment has all but exploded with new metal. Mercedes-Benz jumped into the action with its SLS AMG, Lexus came to the party with the high-tech LFA and old-timers like the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and Nissan GT-R have been enjoying their own slice of supercar territory. We're all for the notion of a resurrected Honda fighter, but we're still going to treat this one with a healthy dose of skepticism.

We've been burnt before.

this appears to be the original source for these rumours if anyone can read japanese

http://mainichi.jp/select/biz/news/2...20074000c.html



It can never be as great as the original but i just hope honda can come out with something exciting and get teh ball rolling