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The new sports experience is here

The Honda NSX is the rebirth of an icon representing the ultimate combination in power, sportiness and efficiency. Dubbed the new sports experience, it was developed under the concept of a "human-centered supercar".

A car that puts the driver first in every aspect of its design, the next-generation NSX leverages its state-of-the-art hybrid supercar power unit, body and chassis to deliver exceptionally intuitive and immediate response to driver inputs.

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  • Interior

    The NSX interior boasts exceptional forward visibility, simple and intuitive controls, and class-leading ergonomics—most notably the seat, which features top-class holding performance with outstanding comfort and easy ingress/egress.

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    Technology

    The NSX has been designed from the inside out with an uncompromising focus on the driver. Like the original, we created a ‘Human Support Cockpit’ with exceptional driver control, visibility and packaging, that meets the extreme performance expectations of a modern supercar.

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    Body

    In keeping with the legacy of NSX—the world’s first all-aluminum supercar—the new NSX features an innovative new multi-material body design with worlds-first material applications and construction processes. Anchored by a carbon fibre floor, torsional and bending forces are taken up entirely by this ultra-rigid structure, which also utilises advanced joining technologies.

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  • Engine

    The engineers’ expertise with high-performance engines and dynamic torque-vectoring technologies, including Super-Handling All-Wheel Drive, led to the advanced three-motor Sport Hybrid System with a twin-turbocharged engine that delivers instantaneous yet broad torque. As well as the zero-delay acceleration that produces a G-force unlike anything you have experienced unless you've been in an F1 car.

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  • the vision 1984 car

    1984
    The vision

    Honda commissioned Italian car designer Pininfarina to design the HP-X (Honda Pininfarina eXperimental), which had a mid-mounted engine configuration. After Honda committed to the project, management informed the engineers that the new car would have to be as fast as anything coming from Italy and Germany .The HP-X concept car evolved into a prototype called the NS-X, which stood for "New", "Sportscar" "eXperimental”.

  • the vision the vision

    1986
    Impossible Made Possible

    Honda successfully engineer the world’s first all-aluminium monocoque body. Thought impossible, this lightweight frame forms the heart of the NSX’s legendary power-to-weight ratio.

  • impossible made possible 1986

    1989
    New Sports Car Experimental

    Honda unveils the NSX at the 81st Chicago Motor Show. It is Japan’s first supercar. F1 World Champion Ayrton Senna tests a prototype NSX at the Suzuka track in Japan. His feedback sends the engineers back to the drawing board, determined to deliver world-leading rigidity in the chassis.

  • 3 year waiting list 1990

    1990
    3 year waiting list

    The NSX went on sale in Japan in 1990 at Honda Verno dealership sales channels, supplanting the Honda Prelude as the flagship model. The NSX was marketed under Honda's flagship Acura luxury brand starting in 1991 in North America and Hong Kong. With 1,940 sold in its first year, the waiting list balloons out to three years.

  • nsx-t launch 1995

    1995
    NSX-T Launch

    Beginning in 1995, the NSX-T with a removable targa top was introduced in Japan as a special order option and in North America in March that year. The NSX-T replaced the standard coupe entirely as the only version available post 1994 and all NSXs thereafter were in targa form with the notable exceptions of the Zanardi Special Edition NSX in 1999 and a handful of special order vehicles.

  • largest innovation 1997

    1997
    Largest Innovation

    Honda makes its largest innovation in the NSX, replacing the 3.0 litre engine with a more powerful 3.2 litre DOHC V6 engine, producing 290 horsepower and 304 Nm torque. The exhaust manifold was reconfigured and made of stainless steel header pipes for improved performance and lighter weight, a key contributor to the 20 additional horsepower drawn from the new engine.

  • refresh 2002

    2002
    Refresh

    The original NSX body design received only minor modifications from Honda in the new millennium when in 2002 the original pop-up headlamps were replaced with fixed xenon HID headlamp units along with slightly wider rear tires to complement a revised suspension. A second iteration of the NSX-R was released in 2002, again exclusively in Japan. As with the first NSX-R, weight reduction was the primary focus for performance enhancement.

  • concept unveiled 2012

    2012
    Concept Unveiled

    Honda announces the all-new 2012 NSX Concept at the International Auto Show in Detroit. In the film The Avengers, Robert Downey, Jr. (playing the role of Iron Man) was spotted in an exotic sports car based on the new NSX, made specifically for the film, rather than the Audi R8 he previously drove in Iron Man and Iron Man 2.The car itself was built by Trans FX using an existing 1992 NSX.

  • nsx unveiled 2015

    2015
    NSX Revealed

    The production model NSX was revealed under the Acura badge at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Production of the new NSX commenced at Honda's new Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio, which is housed inside Honda's former North American Logistics facility and located in the midst of Honda's existing R&D and production engineering operations.