Watch the New Acura NSX Dominate a 14000-Foot Mountain - Bloomberg

After 10 long years of nonexistence, the Acura NSX is back. It wasn’t production-ready yet, and it’s facing some significant production delays having to do with the engine. That meant despite initial plans, Acura wouldn’t let me photograph inside it, let alone drive it. But we did get plenty of up-close-and-personal quality time filming the beast dominate the 14,114-foot mountain. Two decades after it first created the low-slung, affordable racer that claimed immortal status after its Gran Turismo debut, Honda says it’s only a matter of months before it unleashes the modern version to a salivating public. As we know from its debut earlier this year in Detroit, it has a turbocharged V6 engine paired with three electric motors. I was skeptical about how NSX purists would respond to a turbocharged engine rather than something akin to the naturally aspirated rear-wheel drive that pushed the original NSX, but Acura engineers defended the new configuration, saying that the... It all sounds plausible, though I’ll refrain from making a final judgment until I can drive the production version. The early NSX became a design status symbol for its low, lightweight, and late-'80s angular body. Source: www.bloomberg.com