Quoted off the www.vtec.net
don’t know if this is worthy to be published in the rumours and news section, but just to let you know.



Basically, I was reading some JP auto mags today after work and I found quite a few talking about future Honda’s (including drawings and renders)

- I found 2 or 3 stating that there will be a 4 door Civic TypeR with a slightly more tuned version of the Civic Si Sedan engine at around 215 – 220ps. Some mags call it Civic RS. All of them show in their images the Civic Sedan Si Concept from Chicago, and state that their R version would be quite similar to it.

- I’ve found quite a few ones claiming that there will be a sports coupe (some call it Integra, some not) powered by a 280 – 300 ps version of the 2.3L turbo engine found on the RDX. Some also say that this engine will be on a new Accord EuroR that would look very similar to the Sports4 concept of Tokyo and have SH-AWD.

- Rumours about a luxury sports coupe, with images quite close to an RL coupe, and possibly an engine bigger than a V6 on it.

They also have some nice NSX renders I’ve never seen before… but I’m not sure they have any basis.


Finally, some non-Honda rumours, but still surprising.

- They all say that there will be soon an IS500. That beast is supposed to have a 5.0L V8 engine with 420PS at only 5800 rpm (maybe this is no news to you). Style wise, it looks really BMWish to me, with even the lateral stuff from the M series..

- Quite strange, but I found a scoop about a new MR-2 with a 3.3L V6 engine…

- Finally, a new high performance Nissan coupe, kind of extreme Infinity G35, boosting a highly tuned 4.5L V8 engine.

Well, that’s more or less all of it, don’t know if it’s of any use though,



I think that new gen TSX with SH-AWD and the turbo might be a go!

 

If it has pix, can you scan them?

 

I saw that stuff about a Civic Type R on vtec.net also, but I think it said it was going to be for Europe. US always seems to get the short end of the stick.

 

you read japanese ?

 

ToV is an english site

 

>> Basically, I was reading some JP auto mags today after work an

I assumed "JP" meant "Japanese"

 

I think the highly tuned G35 that you are talking about is suppose to be the GT-R that's coming to US under infiniti's umbrela.
Hmm, V8 for the IS. I've heard it some where before. I wonder how it'll drive. It could've been a hit or a miss for Lexus. They really need to redo their suspension to cope with V8 weight in order to make it turn.
RS4 kind of failed in terms of handling because of the location of the engine, it's in front of front axel, so it kind of took away the handling. I hope Lexus is different.

 

http://www.caranddriver.com/article....ticle_id=10654

 

I seriously dont think an IS 500 will sell. i think the 306hp version of IS 350 is more than enough. for those who test drove it already know its pretty fast. IS is the smallest sedan in terms or price and size (confirm me on this). I kinda think the interior of the IS is a bit small....it would suck to have a v8 for a car that size

 

IS500 will be a competitor to the new E90 M3

 

 

For the past year+, everytime there's news about some version of the 3 series Lexus comes up with some equivalent model of the IS.

300PS is a bit much for a street Honda with only 2.3L displacement.

Any well informed person could have made those guesses from previously announced info and past trends.

Biker, who believes Honda is real good at keeping future models tucked away.