Only a few minutes had passed—if even that long—since the sweet new 2016 Acura NSX rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show in all of its 550-plus-hp, all-wheel-drive, hybridized, torque-vectoring awesomeness ahead of rumors swirled about even burlier versions. And then reports, which includes one particular from AutoExpress, stated definitively that Acura has confirmed—confirmed!—that an NSX Sort R is on the way.
While the quotes that AutoExpress published from NSX lead engineer Ted Klaus don’t specifically convince us that a Type R is a done deal, they do whet our appetite. “I think every person who loves vehicles desires to see a version that we say is pure red,” Klaus was quoted as saying. “The NSX has usually been silver 1st, moving towards red later. A person asked me, ‘when will you be happy?’ Almost certainly by no means. What you do these days, you can increase on tomorrow.”
Honda did say that the NSX will be offered in “more than a single spec since we know this client desires to be in a position to configure, customize, and develop their own automobile.” At no point did Kraus say that any of those “specs” would be of the higher-overall performance assortment, nor did they say any variants would be known as Variety R or NSX-R.
You may remember that the NSX Sort R (or NSX-R) was a thing in the NSX’s first iteration. It was a stiffened and stripped-out street-legal NSX that weighed some 250 pounds significantly less than the standard car and shaved .3 second from its -to-60-mph time—but at as well wonderful a cost in terms of drivability, we believed. “The way Honda carved out the further speed tends to make the NSX-R less pleasant to drive,” we mentioned in our July 1993 issue. “The sound isn’t as sophisticated as a Ferrari roar, it’s just loud. The ride is disturbingly stiff, maybe the hardest street vehicle ever . . . where the surface is the slightest bit disturbed, it is unable to maintain a line in a corner . . . Honda wanted to trim the fat from the NSX, but alternatively it cut the muscle.” If Acura reprises the NSX-R, we hope it gets the balance proper this time.
We reached out to Acura for comment on this story but have but to hear back. But if we receive solid confirmation of something along the lines of a Type R, you will be the initial to know.
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