Acura (Honda) NSX II concept, first look at the interior.

Over the last year Acura, or if you want, Honda, previewed several times the NSX in almost all the possible car shows in the world, but now, for the first time, we get to see the interior.

But let's start with the exterior. The front is a slightly different, with a new carbon fiber piece in the front grille (it has a clear plastic covering the front and rear license plate holder), side vents of both the rear and front bumpers, and the inclusion of turning signals at the front and in the back (LED strip).

The inside, in the lack of a better word, is minimalist. It has virtually no buttons or controls, but Honda says this is for a reason. "The interior package boasts outstanding visibility, an exotic driving position, and an intuitive "Simple Sports Interface" that minimizes interior clutter, allowing the driver to focus on the driving experience". Good enough for me, it looks really look.

The Acura NSX will be powered by a mid-mounted, direct-injected V6 engine connected to Acura's Sport Hybrid SH-AWD® (Super Handling All-Wheel Drive) system. This system is an all-new, three-motor high-performance hybrid system that combines torque vectoring all-wheel drive with advanced hybrid efficiency through the use of three electric motors – one motor integrated with the V-6 engine and two motors driving the front wheels – along with an all-new dual-clutch transmission (DCT). This sounds really good, but we have to await for real figures, to comment on whether this is good or not.

Honda working on a "baby NSX"

Honda was working on the the successor to the NSX, which will be a an all-wheel drive hybrid vehicle with a V10 engine, when the idea arose of creating a smaller version of the NSX which will also have four-wheel drive.

This will not be the successor to the Honda S2000, but just a shrunken version of the NSX. Power will probably come from a turbocharged direct-injection engine, possibly a K24 series engine, and my bet goes to the K24Z3 with a displacement of 2,354cc, 201hp @ 7000rpm and 233Nm (172lb/ft) @ 4300rpm.

Both cars are being developed at Honda of America's R&D center in Ohio (that is why the concepts use the Acura name), and Honda HQ in Tokyo, Japan, assigned several of its top test drivers and engineers to the North American R&D center for a five-year period, but we already known the bigger NSX will be released in 2015 meaning that the baby NSX will see the light of day until 2017.

The small NSX will share many of its components with its big brother, helping to recover some of the development costs, still the price of the small sports car will be relatively high at around €46.000 ($60.000).

Source: motortrend

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