Honda Motor’s NSX engineering team organized an event for NSX owners in June 1991. The event was intended to give the owners a chance to understand the true capabilities of their car, and to help them enjoy it safely. Yet, those who had created the NSX wanted to continue refining it.

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The Story

The Honda NSX, marketed in North America as the Acura NSX, is a two-seat, mid-engined coupe sports car manufactured by Honda. The origins of the NSX trace back to 1984, with the HP-X Honda Pininfarina eXperimental concept, which was a mid-engine 3.0 L V6 engine rear wheel drive sports car. Honda committed to the project, with the intention of meeting or exceeding the performance of the then V8 engine Ferrari range, while offering reliability and a lower price point. The concept thus evolved and had its name changed to NS-X, which stood for "New", "Sportscar" "eXperimental", although the production model was launched as the NSX.

HP-X Honda Pininfarina

The Honda Pininfarina eXperimental was a concept car of an extremely aerodynamic sport berlinetta. Developed with the help of Pininfarina.

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Acura NSX vs Honda NSX

In North America, the NSX was advertised as an Acura, Honda's Luxury Brand. While it was advertised everywhere else as Honda NSX.

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Honda vs Ferrari

The NSX is one of the most famous models that Japanese Engineers made in order to compete with the world's supreme brands of supercars.

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Specs

The intention in creating the Acura NSX was to produce a hand-built, exotic, mid-engine sports car that would establish entirely new levels of performance, refinement, driveability and reliability. The NSX is designed to represent an entirely new definition of the exotic sports car. The mid-engine, 2-seater NSX is powered by an all-aluminum, 3.0-liter V-6 which produces 270 hp and 210 lbs.-ft. of torque. The normally aspirated engine is equipped with dual overhead cams, four valves per cylinder, a Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC) system, and a Variable Volume Induction System (VVIS) intake configuration.

Engine
The block is made of aluminum alloy with cast-in-steel cylinder liners. The crankshaft is a fully counter-weighted forged-steel unit.
VTEC
The heart of the VTEC system is a unique camshaft and rocker arm system. Foreach cylinder's set of two intake (or exhaust) valves, there are three corresponding lobes on the camshaft. The two outboard lobes each have a profile suited for low to mid-engine speed operation.
VVIS
This system uses a separate intake air plenum, located beneath the main intake manifold. This second plenum is separated from the primary manifold by six butterfly valves, which open between 4600 and 4900 rpm and are actuated by manifold vacuum.
Transmission
To handle the high torque and power output of the NSX engine, a twin-disc clutch was developed. The twin disc design increases the torque capacity of the unit, while retaining a light clutch feel and reducing rotating inertia.
Suspension
The desired goals for the NSX suspension went well beyond the typical goals of high lateral adhesion, transient response and linear response to control input. The engineers wanted a suspension that allowed the driver to easily control the car right to the limit.
Brakes
The NSX is equipped with 4-wheel ventilated disc brakes and dual piston steel calipers. The diameter of the front and rear discs are 282 mm (11 in.).

Modernized NSX

It's the 2022 NSX Type S sports car, which utilizes a hybrid powertrain. A twin-turbo V-6 and three electric motors team up for blistering acceleration but the system also enables quiet, electric-only driving so your neighbors don't have a cow every time you idle through your subdivision.

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