2015 Acura NSX Sneak Preview - Automobile Magazine
Honda’s most loyal fans will tell you the brand’s heyday came quick on the heels of Toyota’s heyday, in the late 1980s and into the ’90s. This, in chronological order, is what created the fanboys: the CRX, the creation of the Acura brand three... More than a decade after Acura built its last aluminum-bodied, rear-wheel-drive VTEC V-6 NSX, Honda is preparing new F1 engines for McLaren’s 2016 season, and the NSX name returns—as an Acura in North America and China, and as a Honda everywhere... The Acura NSX will pair a high-output, twin-turbocharged 3. 5-liter V-6, mounted rear-midship, longitudinally, with an electric hybrid system working through a seven-speed dual-clutch transaxle. Not coincidentally, this powertrain alludes to the turbo V-6/Energy Recovery System hybrid powerplant that Honda F1 must build to get back into the world’s most advanced racing series, even though the Acura NSX powertrain is a straightforward hybrid. Using a normally aspirated 3. 5L V-6, the Acura RLX Hybrid powertrain makes a combined 377 hp. So, how much more can we expect in the Acura NSX by tuning it up and adding twin turbochargers. Source: www.automobilemag.com
