Acura NSX supercar one step closer to production

Paul A. Eisenstein, the Detroit Bureau-20 days

The once and future Acura NSX has acquired closer, again a second prototype version of the supercar as a preview at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit revealed a big jump in production, the Honda Luxury Division.

The original Acura was a high-profile flagship for Acura in its first incarnation, but the manufacturers for years struggling to find a strategy for it again show revealed car into production before a unique new concept car at the last year's Detroit.

Prototype was little more than a model that you stand on the Acura on display in Detroit Cobo Hall for the new several weeks a running prototype is time, if also not yet ready for Prime.

"A big step is closer to the production model" said after the latest prototype unveiling Acura marketing Director Mike Accavitti, TheDetroitBureau.com.


The 2013 take over the NSX concept is slightly longer and wider than the previous version, he revealed and calls external details, such as scoops and closer to production intent, explains dams, which are Accavitti.

Under the hood is a version of the sport-hybrid powertrain, the NSX is used if it now goes back to the production.

The original 2-seater used a high-tech V6 and Acura played with a variety of alternatives such as about a high-powered V-10, before he himself on its current strategy. It uses a unique three-engine hybrid, two at the front and one on the back, which also turns into a supercharged V6 put on. The layout can aggressive torque to each of the front wheels to improve vectoring, different amounts of energy, which it controls through a cornering.

As the Suede, leather and chrome Interior at the Detroit Auto Show 2013-prototype shown, think of it as "one possible direction", that the manufacturer can go, once it is in production, NSX explained Chief Designer Jon Ikeda.

The race track ready wheel and gearshift paddles to push the distractions on a driver to minimize struck Ikeda a supercar "to the limit". And there are a few large LCD screens, including one in the primary gauge cluster, can be the newly configured driver specifications.

Don't be surprised to see a further iteration of the Acura NSX topic at the next show Detroit officials indicated. By the time that is super car in 2015, Accavitti said it should but in the form of production.