2014 Honda NSX launch |Shortly after Honda CEOs officially confirmed that the NSX would indeed have a new successor, people everywhere started the ’what if’ game, speculating on everything from the engine fitted under the hood to the design used on the vehicle. Thankfully, auto execs aren’t great about keeping secrets and Honda President Takanobu Ito has already chatted it up with Automotive News and stated that the future NSX won’t come with a V10 engine. The idea for an engine that size was actually dropped in 2008, then the company decided that the car should be environmentally friendly and still fun to drive.
Sources say the upcoming Honda NSX will be powered by a 3.5-litre V6 producing upwards of 300kW (one source says that a patent application has already been made by Honda for the engine). This would just about be enough for the NSX if it remains true to its form of being very light. But the car is also said to be powered with the help of an electric motor. These two motors will then power an all-wheel drive system – a first for the top-shelf Honda model.
As expected, this car will use Hondas proven four-wheel drive SH-AWD system, but to make the station ran out of hybrid vehicles can be higher at the Nurburgring results, SH-AWD system will be rear-wheel drive mode by to set.
Engineers will be the precursor of the Accord platform in the development of a mid-wheel-drive chassis, so that will reduce the number of R D costs. If Zheliang sports car would be allowed to produce, then the first to debut in 2014. But the point is still not sure, do not know whether the version sold in North America will continue to use the Acura Acuras trademark.
The SH-AWD system combines front-rear torque distribution control with independently regulated torque distribution to the left and right rear wheels to freely distribute the optimum amount of torque to all four wheels in accordance with driving conditions.
