2012 Detroit: Acura NSX Concept

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Acura NSX fans will never forget the month of December in 2005. The last NSX bound for the North American market was built then and enthusiasts have been mourning the loss of Hondas first supercar ever since. Well now they can stop mourning

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00:00 (car engine revving)

00:03 - I'm Frank Marcus and I'm here on the Acura stand

00:09 next to what is sure to be one of the biggest hits

00:11 of the North American International Auto Show,

00:13 Acura's NSX sports car.

00:15 It's been about six years since the NSX left our market.

00:18 During that time, there's been a lot of speculation

00:20 that the car would have a V10 front engine.

00:22 In fact, John Icato's team built just such a car

00:25 and got it all done and said,

00:26 "You know what, it's not an NSX."

00:27 So they went back to the drawing board

00:29 and what we have here is once again,

00:30 a V6 midship mounted car,

00:33 only this one is augmented with three electric motors.

00:36 One of them is connected to the engine,

00:38 driving the rear wheels

00:39 to a seven speed dual clutch transmission.

00:42 The other two are up in front

00:43 where they can power each wheel individually

00:46 in acceleration and braking for torque vectoring

00:48 to help pull the car around turns,

00:50 whether you're accelerating or braking.

00:52 Now this car is, we've been told

00:54 it's about three years out.

00:55 So what you see here is just an early stages

00:58 of the final development.

01:00 And during that time, we might get a little bit longer

01:02 for crash protection and so forth,

01:03 but it should look about like this.

01:05 I tell you, I am really excited to drive this car.

01:08 We're told it'll give us big V8 performance

01:10 with better than four cylinder fuel economy.

01:13 You know, this car, the NSX,

01:15 when it came to market in 1991,

01:17 changed the world forever and for the better.

01:19 I'm guessing that a V6 three motor hybrid

01:22 could do the same again this time.

01:24 Stay tuned for more from the Detroit Auto Show.

01:26 (rock music)

01:29 (rock music)

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