If total HP is going to be 550, I think they goofed. The weight penalty of the hybrid system is going to push curb weight north of 3,600 lbs (maybe as high as 3,800 would be my guess) so it's not going to be the lightweight handler that the original NSX became famous for. In today's world, 550 HP is just not that impressive at that price point. Not with 650 HP Z06's, 700 HP Dodge's, 600 HP Huracan's, 650 HP McLaren's... etc...

To be successful, this car either had to be lighter than the competition, more powerful, or much better looking, and I don't think they achieved any of those things.

Is that a Glorified r8?

How nice this car I s will be dependent on it's price. If it's a few grand over a Cayman? Awesome!!! If it's GT-R money? Ehhhh? Not quite. If it's 911 turbo money? Ghetdafuccattaheuh!!!!

I think it's amazing

do want

its already been confirmed it starts at 150K and goes up from there

Had no idea she designed the new NSX.

http://www.dpccars.com/gallery/var/r...68SEtcs9uL.jpg

From the article:
She is the first women to be in charge of a supercar’s exterior design. She also loves cars and grew up in San Jose, California, one of the hot beds of American hot rod and muscle car culture. Her dad was also a tried and true Mopar guy. Meet Michelle Christensen, the new star of automotive design who was recruited by Acura right out of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena back in 2005.

10 pictures and full article

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Here is a new detailed press release published today.

From the press release:

DETROIT, April 23, 2015 – In advance of the market launch of the highly anticipated next generation Acura NSX, the engineers leading the supercar's development shared new technical details and design strategies with the automotive engineering community at the April 22nd SAE Detroit Section dinner, held in conjunction with the SAE 2015 World Congress and Exhibition. Additional information about the team's efforts to achieve a true "New Sports Experience" included details of the NSX's world's first body construction process that helped create a multi-material space frame resulting in class-leading body rigidity, the advanced total airflow management system and an update on NSX's power unit specifications. Ted Klaus, chief engineer and global development leader of the new NSX, introduced key powertrain, body and dynamic performance engineers who shared new product and technical details in their related areas of the development. The unprecedented sharing of technical details prior to the car's market introduction reflects the desire of the NSX development team and the company to inspire the imagination of automotive and technology enthusiasts along with the next generation of engineers.


Full Press Release

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So will we see this car by 2020?

What idiot is going to buy a $150k+ Honda with less hp than a $70k Corvette?

someone with lots of money.

KENCHAN, if he had the scrilla? lol :owned:

:tiphat:

I'd rather drive the designer, Hard fast and for a long time... :leghump:[/B]

Today's market has so much more to do with the PACKAGE over the HP figure. If you're looking at modern performance cars by only their HP figure, you're doing it wrong. Plain and simple. The McLaren P1 is an example of this. It's heavy. It's faster than Jesus. In all directions. The GT-R Nismo is another example of this. It's short on HP and shorter on torque than the new Z06 Corvette, yet it is faster at Streets of Willow. The package, people. The package.

3800lbs isn't a terrible weight by today's safety standards, either. In the North American market, you gotta make the car fit at least two fat Americans inside (which is why the US-Spec GT-R carries a wider seat base of 2-3 inches), and most of these cars are carrying extra hardware for boosting.

So, to close, yes there will be a penalty in weight for the hybrid system on the car, but we don't know what extra power it will produce. It could produce an additional 200 lb-ft of torque instantly, which will change how the car can perform out of the corners, which could have it trample all over a lot of its competition. We simply don't know enough about the PACKAGE to discredit the car at its pseudo-confirmed price point of $150k.

PS - It looks like a boring ******* Honda even though the designer is hot, so I wouldn't pay for an NSX even if I had the cash unless it included a sleepover with the designer. The end.