Honda: HSV-010 GT news
12-12-2009, 09:06 PM
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Cancelled Acura NSX Resurrected as GT Racecar
Published Dec 11, 2009
<FORM class=rating id=yui-gen5>TOKYO — When Takeo Fukui, former president of Honda Motor Co., cancelled development of the next-generation Acura NSX, it seemed to be the end of the legendary nameplate, the symbol of Honda's love for technology and performance. Those who were most disappointed with Fukui's decision were the people working on the sports car, as it was just about finished and ready to start production.
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Now the car might make it to the road after all, only in the form of a racing car. The Super GT Series is the most popular racing series in Japan, featuring highly modified GT cars at races held throughout Asia. Most Japanese manufacturers are involved, notably Honda, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota. This year, a midengine Acura won the championship at the final race when the favored Nissan GT-R had a flat tire.
For next season, the new-generation, front-engine NSX will be entered for the Super GT Series. It will be equipped with a 3.4-liter V8, not the 5.0-liter V10 that had been rumored for the production car.
Honda has managed to sidestep the Super GT rules that require the use of a car based on a production vehicle by presenting the drawings and specs of the car to JAF (Japan Automobile Federation), which sanctions the GT Series. The rules permit cars that are production ready, though not necessarily in production, which is why the NSX and Toyota Supra are still a part of the championship.
The officials at JAF have given the OK, so the NSX will take its place on the starting grid in Japan next year. This should ease the sting of Honda's retreat from Formula 1 and the cancellation of the NSX program, major blows to a company as dedicated to performance as Honda.
Inside Line says: Maybe this $100,000 sports car isn't as cancelled as we thought. — Mak Tokuyama, Correspondent
Source: http://www.insideline.com/acura/nsx/...t-racecar.html
Published Dec 11, 2009
<FORM class=rating id=yui-gen5>TOKYO — When Takeo Fukui, former president of Honda Motor Co., cancelled development of the next-generation Acura NSX, it seemed to be the end of the legendary nameplate, the symbol of Honda's love for technology and performance. Those who were most disappointed with Fukui's decision were the people working on the sports car, as it was just about finished and ready to start production.
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Now the car might make it to the road after all, only in the form of a racing car. The Super GT Series is the most popular racing series in Japan, featuring highly modified GT cars at races held throughout Asia. Most Japanese manufacturers are involved, notably Honda, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota. This year, a midengine Acura won the championship at the final race when the favored Nissan GT-R had a flat tire.
For next season, the new-generation, front-engine NSX will be entered for the Super GT Series. It will be equipped with a 3.4-liter V8, not the 5.0-liter V10 that had been rumored for the production car.
Honda has managed to sidestep the Super GT rules that require the use of a car based on a production vehicle by presenting the drawings and specs of the car to JAF (Japan Automobile Federation), which sanctions the GT Series. The rules permit cars that are production ready, though not necessarily in production, which is why the NSX and Toyota Supra are still a part of the championship.
The officials at JAF have given the OK, so the NSX will take its place on the starting grid in Japan next year. This should ease the sting of Honda's retreat from Formula 1 and the cancellation of the NSX program, major blows to a company as dedicated to performance as Honda.
Inside Line says: Maybe this $100,000 sports car isn't as cancelled as we thought. — Mak Tokuyama, Correspondent
Source: http://www.insideline.com/acura/nsx/...t-racecar.html
12-22-2009, 09:21 AM
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t’s here at last… sort of. Above is a lone photo of the replacement to the Honda/Acura NSX – at least in race car trim. Called the HSV-10 GT, or Velocity Sports Honda, this track only exotic is built to run in the GT500 class of Japan’s Super GT series. As cars in that class are limited to around 500-hp, we can safely assume the HSV-10 GT makes exactly that. With a full carbon fiber body, what’s even more impressive is what’s under the hood – a 3.4-liter V8 engine that no doubt revvs to an impressively high (even for Honda) rpm range to get all 500 ponies. (Honda has yet to release official specs though.)
Underpinning this impressive creation is reported to be the very same chassis that Honda was working on for several years to replace the NSX but which has now been rumored canceled.
A light weight body and 500-hp 3.4L V8, only for the track? Please Honda, nobody likes a tease.
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2...gt-series.html
12-22-2009, 10:21 AM
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hmmmm.....waiting for the side profile shot.
12-22-2009, 12:20 PM
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They never said it was, only the chassis is the same.
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12-22-2009, 10:47 PM
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Lame. Build us a car, THEN make a race car out of it. 
Honda,
Honda,
12-22-2009, 10:57 PM
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Here's the JGTC NSX:
and the nsx:
Also NSX tester vs. the GT500 one:
So if honda slimmed it down a bit, got rid of some vents raised the car up slightly, next NSX. (also cut down from carbon body to Aluminum or Alum/Carbon mix)
12-23-2009, 07:44 AM
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Honda has revealed its new V8 racing car in Japan, the HSV 010.
Although Honda calls it "a racing car specially developed for Japanese Super GT category", it is loosely based on Honda’s axed 'next NSX' project.
See the Honda HSV 010 race car in hi-res
Honda put a lot of time and work into developing a new front-engined V10 super-coupe, to go head to head with the Lexus LFA.
The car was seen testing and was close to being signed off when Honda pulled the plug in winter 2008 as the economic crisis hit, around the same time Honda announced it was quitting Formula One.
Sources say Honda’s plan was to launch the new V10 super-coupe as the Acura Sports, its launch timed to coincide with the debut of Acura, Honda’s luxury dealer channel, in Japan.
In the end, both projects got canned, but not before Honda put quite a bit of work into developing a separate, pure race version of the Acura Sports for Super GT, Japan’s hugely popular tin-top race series.
The Super GT version of the Acura Sports will carry the road car’s silhouette but underneath it would be totally different, with an all-new carbonfibre chassis and swapping the road car’s 5.0-litre V10 – good for 500bhp plus – for a race-bred 3.4-litre V8 to meet the new Super GT regs.
The road car’s high-performance, rear-biased Super Handling 4WD system has also been exchanged for a simpler, more robust rear drive layout, again to meet Super GT regs.
Honda will build a limited run of race cars to meet the requirements of the Super GT teams, but has stressed the race car will not be sold, nor form the basis of a road car.
It’s a 90-degree V8 with 3400cc capacity, rev-limited to 10,300rpm and good for 600bhp plus. For Super GT duty, the engine will have to be significantly reworked for a more endurance spec. Super GT races are longer and harder than Formula Nippon and each engine also has to last for four races.
The V8 engine will also be air-restricted to 500bhp to meet the regs in Super GT’s top GT500 class, but will lose the rev limiter.
The details of the car and the team organisation will be announced in January.
Although Honda calls it "a racing car specially developed for Japanese Super GT category", it is loosely based on Honda’s axed 'next NSX' project.
See the Honda HSV 010 race car in hi-res
Honda put a lot of time and work into developing a new front-engined V10 super-coupe, to go head to head with the Lexus LFA.
The car was seen testing and was close to being signed off when Honda pulled the plug in winter 2008 as the economic crisis hit, around the same time Honda announced it was quitting Formula One.
Sources say Honda’s plan was to launch the new V10 super-coupe as the Acura Sports, its launch timed to coincide with the debut of Acura, Honda’s luxury dealer channel, in Japan.
In the end, both projects got canned, but not before Honda put quite a bit of work into developing a separate, pure race version of the Acura Sports for Super GT, Japan’s hugely popular tin-top race series.
The Super GT version of the Acura Sports will carry the road car’s silhouette but underneath it would be totally different, with an all-new carbonfibre chassis and swapping the road car’s 5.0-litre V10 – good for 500bhp plus – for a race-bred 3.4-litre V8 to meet the new Super GT regs.
The road car’s high-performance, rear-biased Super Handling 4WD system has also been exchanged for a simpler, more robust rear drive layout, again to meet Super GT regs.
Honda will build a limited run of race cars to meet the requirements of the Super GT teams, but has stressed the race car will not be sold, nor form the basis of a road car.
It’s a 90-degree V8 with 3400cc capacity, rev-limited to 10,300rpm and good for 600bhp plus. For Super GT duty, the engine will have to be significantly reworked for a more endurance spec. Super GT races are longer and harder than Formula Nippon and each engine also has to last for four races.
The V8 engine will also be air-restricted to 500bhp to meet the regs in Super GT’s top GT500 class, but will lose the rev limiter.
The details of the car and the team organisation will be announced in January.
12-23-2009, 09:35 AM
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12-24-2009, 12:09 PM
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At the pace honda changes their mind this car will be canceled before the the 2010 season starts
12-24-2009, 03:05 PM
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12-25-2009, 03:26 AM
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Sound! Fury! Nuts! LF-What? Huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Rj4...layer_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR53v...layer_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Ndw...layer_embedded
LF-what?
Jigga-man who? Too bad the clip cut the sound short, should have kept rolling, nuts!!##!!%%
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR53v...layer_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Ndw...layer_embedded
LF-what?
Jigga-man who? Too bad the clip cut the sound short, should have kept rolling, nuts!!##!!%%
12-25-2009, 03:33 AM
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That thing must be revving to infinity on that straight. I wonder if that was the Super GT setup or the Formula Nippon...
12-25-2009, 03:34 AM
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http://www.vtec.net/news/news-item?news_item_id=870726
http://www.kansenzyuku.com/circuitdi...ary.cgi?no=129
http://www.s2ki.com/home/2009/12/24/...nda-hsv-10-gt/
Ho ho ho! More pics and Merry Xmas~!
"AV6RSXS: Honda has to release this car in one for or another to continue to qualify for this racing league....
one of the requirements is the car being based on a production model."
Keep-hope-alive?
http://www.s2ki.com/home/2009/12/24/...nda-hsv-10-gt/
Ho ho ho! More pics and Merry Xmas~!
"AV6RSXS: Honda has to release this car in one for or another to continue to qualify for this racing league....
one of the requirements is the car being based on a production model."
Keep-hope-alive?
12-25-2009, 03:54 AM
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Where's that iraqi dis-information minister when you need one...
It goes to show how old this forum is, 2003 iraqi war media shenanigans being pulled again at the end of '09, oh you clever honda media tricksters you!
If anyone's keeping score, here's who is letting the cat out of the bag in order:
1) Nissan R35 GTR '08
2) Lexus LFA '09
3) ??__________??!!
Don't get any ideas honda marketing dept. about using him as a spokesperson, I want to take full credit!
It goes to show how old this forum is, 2003 iraqi war media shenanigans being pulled again at the end of '09, oh you clever honda media tricksters you!
If anyone's keeping score, here's who is letting the cat out of the bag in order:
1) Nissan R35 GTR '08
2) Lexus LFA '09
3) ??__________??!!
Don't get any ideas honda marketing dept. about using him as a spokesperson, I want to take full credit!
12-25-2009, 04:04 AM
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This appears to be a nice poker game isn't it? #3 spot below has the 'big blind' in seeing the previous two manufacturer's hands, all while maintaining the appearance of fiscal prudence.
1) Nissan R35 GTR '08
2) Lexus LFA '09
3) ??__________??!!
1) Nissan R35 GTR '08
2) Lexus LFA '09
3) ??__________??!!
12-25-2009, 09:25 AM
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Really wish you guys would stop getting your hopes up :P
12-25-2009, 09:41 AM
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My only response to seeing this car in pictures and reading that it'll probably never reach the road in a street-legal form is a resounding sigh.
12-25-2009, 02:39 PM
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12-25-2009, 04:08 PM
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12-25-2009, 04:09 PM
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That motor sounds sick. But it should be in a street car first, THEN a race car.
12-25-2009, 06:26 PM
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12-25-2009, 08:07 PM
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この道は毛むくじゃらのマンコだらけ..
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12-25-2009, 08:14 PM
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i would like to see one in championship white
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12-25-2009, 08:15 PM
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Oooooooooh....oooooooooooh.....oooooooooh....... The sound of that car is pure sex. It also looks hot. 
The NSX will be back when the economy is better. It has to be. Honda can't waste all that effort.
The NSX will be back when the economy is better. It has to be. Honda can't waste all that effort.
12-25-2009, 08:29 PM
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Obviously this was meant as a Christmas present for us Honda faithful.
Mission accomplished, Honda, mission accomplished.
Mission accomplished, Honda, mission accomplished.
12-25-2009, 08:30 PM
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accomplished on what? i would say their mission is accomplished when i could goto a dealership and place and order for one.
joy to the world!
12-25-2009, 08:46 PM
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Wait and see what happens when the economy is done turning around in the U.S.
12-25-2009, 11:22 PM
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Well, the economy wasnt in a downturn for the past 10 years that Honda refused to provide us with an NSX replacement. Why assume they will in the future when they have pretty much said that their goals are hybrid and hydrogen fuel-cell technology? Face it, Honda as a standard of performance around the world, is dead....
12-25-2009, 11:28 PM
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When was Honda the standard of performance?