The Acura ASCC - the new NSX?
A snippet of future Honda NSX news: according to an American website, the next NSX will not only be powerful, it’ll be very frugal as well.
Rumour is that it’ll use a 5.0 litre V10 with over 500bhp (and not a smaller capacity high-revving V10), but the really hard target for those Japanese engineers is the economy target, which has apparently been set at an incredible 10 litres per 100 kilometres or roughly 28mpg(UK) on the Japanese standard fuel cycle. As a comparison, the previous NSX type R with 'only' a 3.2 litre V6 was quoted at around 33mpg(UK). Anyone who has driven a V10-engined BMW M car will appreciate the enormity of this task.
Considering the 2+2 seating configuration of the Acura ASCC (said to strongly show the direction of the new car) shown at the Detroit show, and the use of the sophisticated SH-AWD four wheel drive system, taking as much weight as possible out of the production NSX looks like a very high priority.