Monday 7th October 2013

Honda NSX Concept GT: Time For Tea?

No wonder we've not had a production NSX yet, the Honda boys are too busy making tea...

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Honda has a knack of producing great viral ads and video. We’ve all seen the ‘Cogs’ commercial and it recently wowed us with the ‘hands’ advert too. And now it’s made one specifically for our Time For Tea? slot, or so we’d like to think.

It features the NSX Concept GT racer, that fabulous bit of kit that will compete in the Japanese Super GT against the Lexus LF-CC and Nissan GT-R. Said Honda is on a rolling road, where it is then wound up to top speed a la Audi R8 V10 ad.

It slows, a few downchanges are fired in and the process starts again. Only now the Concept GT is boiling kettles. Yep, PH Time For Tea? now features a car making tea. We may have seen it all.

But it turns out there’s a genuine and practical reason for this bizarreness. In Honda’s words, it’s a demonstration of the ‘household energy business’, a ‘sucrose home energy management system Honda’s ‘HSHS (Honda Smart Home System)’ emissions movie'. Thanks for the translation Chrome. In English, HSHS is Honda’s range of ideas around domestic energy production, management and conservation.

It's aimed at providing some self-sufficiency for residents if and when natural disasters strike. Read more from Honda here, or simply sit back and marvel at another intriguing video.

[Source: Honda Japan YouTube via MotorAuthority]

 

 

 

[mrclav]

Good Lord - that thing looks mean...

[British Beef]

Shame they appear to have given up on making decent road cars!!!

Hybrid anyone?

[mp3manager]

At least it sounds real....not like that nonsense on the Audi R8 advert.

[alpha channel]

I'm beginning to really hate Honda, they knock this thing out and decide not to make it (I personally love the way it looks let alone sounds) yet they carry on producing mindless drone motors like the Civic which seems to get uglier with each successive generation. If I was an old school engineer that had worked on such greats as the NSX, Intergra, et al I'd be wondering what the hell happened.

[The Vambo]

Aw just build the fking car.

[British Beef]

mp3manager said:

At least it sounds real....not like that nonsense on the Audi R8 advert.

I thought the R8 in the add sounded rather tasty - without any axhaust. Surely it was real??

[VeeDub Geezer]

Looks like the bd love child of a CRZ and an RX-8

I like it. A lot.

[Dakkon]

The Vambo said:

Aw just build the fking car.

Yup, agree 100%, getting bored of the NSX replacement.....just build something.

[anonymous-user]

Strange video.

But not as strange as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6H6fXzRhQ

"Do you have a HONDAAAAAAA!!!!?"

[T.K]

Does it have a kv6?

[scubadude]

Mah... its no Impossible Dream.

[Repent]

RenOHH said:

Strange video.

But not as strange as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6H6fXzRhQ

"Do you have a HONDAAAAAAA!!!!?"

That is just fking brilliant!

[Daston]

Is it just me or does the slight engine hesitation on up shifts sound really good?

[Escort Si-130]

Looks hideous compared to the original NSX

[giblet]

Holy fksticks that looks mean. I would happily trade my left nut for a road legal one that looked just like that. Much like other PH'ers I miss the days when Honda made proper cars for petrolheads.

[405dogvan]

So it's been 18 months since the 'Leno vs Seinfeld' Superbowl ad - what are they doing OTHER than making tea I wonder?

Adding yet more woolly-lining to the interior of the Jazz (the woolly slipper of cars?)

[blearyeyedboy]

Now the Company Directors have a new way of making a cup of tea.

I like it.

[sege]

Love it! Great video, and super sexy sounding engine.

[Ozzie Osmond]

Escort Si-130 said:

Looks hideous compared to the original NSX

Well yes. In fact it just looks hideous.

Should sell well if Honda can tap the market for 12-year olds with 100,000 to spend.

[Trtj]

Sounds like a bloody turbo four