THE HOPES OF Honda fans were dashed late last year when the Japanese carmaker announced it had cancelled plans for a V10-powered successor to the NSX sportscar. However, reports this week suggest that Honda is pushing for Japan’s SuperGT series to allow a racing version of the NSX to compete without [...]

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HONDA’S NEW PRESIDENT, Takanobu Ito, said this week that the packaging and efficiency benefits of front-wheel-drive will take priority for Honda over any handling gains available from a rear-wheel-drive platform.

Ito - a long-time Honda employee and designer of the NSX sports car’s chassis -  claims that Honda does not need a V8 powered rear-wheel-drive car to [...]

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The global economic crisis is fairly ripping its way through the balance sheets of the world’s car manufacturers, with Toyota being the latest to officially recognise the carnage. The world’s largest car manufacturer has forecast its first annual loss in 71 years.

Toyota has confirmed that it expects to post a loss of 150 billion yen [...]

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I knew something was amiss this morning, I’d felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced, and now it all makes sense.

Honda has officially cancelled plans for the long awaited NSX supercar. Honda, having already pulled out of F1, is blaming the unrelenting downward [...]

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It’s good news for Honda fans the world over with Honda Motor Company CEO Takeo Fukui confirming that Honda’s Acura luxury brand will get a new V8 engine to help it compete against other luxury marques. Honda is responding to customer concerns that the current 3.7L V6 engine isn’t quite up to the task.

Fukui explained [...]

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Just as we begin to deal with Nissan’s new GT-R sweeping all before it and establishing a new set of performance and value benchmarks for the Supercar genre comes the news that a Lexus LF-A mule has broken through the current production car lap record at the Nurburgring. Auto Express reports that Lexus insiders have [...]

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In an effort not to be outdone by Nissan’s supreme effort with the GT-R, Honda have indicated their intentions to bring a new V10 powered NSX supercar to market, by 2010.

“We are developing it without any delay, so most probably we will have it in the period we already promised,” says American Honda President [...]

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With Nissan confirming that a team of GT-R’s will be competing at next years Super GT GT500 race series in Japan, we thought this would be a good time to show you what the GT-R will be up against in Japan’s Super GT.

Lexus SC430 GT500. A front mounted V8 engine that was used in [...]

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Beneath the skin of the S2000 Frankenstein you see below is believed to beat the V10 heart of Hondas new NSX. Caught testing at the Nurburgring the stretched, re-skinned and pop-riveted S2000 is believed to be one of the first engineering mules for the engine and chassis development of the next gen NSX.

The NSX has [...]

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