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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Honda’s own factory-backed tuning company Mugen has downed a six-pack of energy drink, injected itself with equine growth hormone and delivered three diamond-hard and tungsten-tough concepts to TAS09. While Honda’s own contingent to this year’s Tokyo Auto Salon may have come off as a bit… limp wristed, the same most definitely can’t be said of [...]

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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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British motoring rag AutoExpress has hurled an interesting image at the world of what is supposedly the internals of the upcoming 2010 Honda NSX (or Acura NSX for our US friends).  There’s nothing to say this is an official image, but if it isn’t, it’s a bloody dedicated (and clairvoyant?) fan who’s put this one [...]

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In the next few years, we are going to see some truly amazing machinery emerge from the Land of the Rising Sun - the Nissan GT-R and GT-R V-spec, the Lexus LF-A, and the Acura NSX.

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It appears that Auto Express may have beaten every Western auto news outlet to the punch by publishing these two photos of what they say is the all-new Acura NSX.

We noticed similar images popping up in the pages of Japanese car magazine Holiday Auto (which you can see over at 7Tune), but we’d dismissed those [...]

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With the R35 Nissan GT-R now old news (at least until it finally lobs in Australia next year), one of the more compelling elements of the rumour-mill and spy-photo circuit is Honda’s upcoming NSX replacement.

As is expected with just about any highly-camouflaged test car, speculative illustrations have begun to surface.  AutoExpress have a pair of [...]

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I still remember the first time I saw a photo of the Z32 Nissan 300ZX twin turbo. This was the late 80s and like most Americans that had been fed a steady diet of Detroit muscle, I didn’t even like Japanese cars. But the 300ZX was sexuality on wheels.

In the post-Regan world of faux fender [...]

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Of all of Japan’s new entrants into the supercar market, the much-anticipated 2010 Acura NSX has been the one most shrouded in mystery. Whereas the Lexus LF-A and Nissan GT-R made regular and highly-visible forays onto test circuits and public roads around the world, the new NSX always seemed to lurk in the shadows, hiding [...]

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The word on the wire right now is that Honda have finally landed on an NSX that they can be happy with, and that it’s set to become the flagship of the Honda and Acura lines from 2010.

We’d have seen a new NSX sooner, but the boffins at Honda got a bit of a fright [...]

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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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