It sounds like the dearly missed Acura NSX is being prepared for its comeback.
The luxury marque has confirmed that it is hard at work on a battery-powered sports car, according to Automotive News. And the automaker isn’t hiding that the vehicle, which will be built on parent company Honda’s new 0 Series electric platform, could be the next to wear the legendary nameplate.
The automaker’s global executive officer, Shinji Aoyama, shared the first substantive details about the car during a briefing at Monterey Car Break. He mainly spoke about the 0 Series platform that will be at the heart of the new model. At the moment, Honday’s engineers are engineers are focused on making the technology thinner, so they can “realize a low-height kind of vehicle.” This would, in theory, make it a great basis for a next-generation NSX, something Aoyama highlighted in his comments.
A 2023 design study for a future high-performance Acura
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“We may not call it an NSX, but it’s kind of an NSX-type of vehicle,” the executive told gathered media, according to Motor1.com.
We’ll have to wait a bit for the potential reborn NSX, though. The first 0 Series EV, a Honda-badged sedan, is expected to debut in 2026. The all-electric sports car could soon after, possibly making its bow as early as 2027.
It’s easy to see why Honda and Acura would be eager to bring back the NSX. The low-slung vehicle was something completely new when it debuted in 1990. It paired a bold design—that has aged quite gracefully—with a boundary-pushing V-6 that produced the kind of performance enthusiasts expected from European sports car makers, not the Japanese auto giant. The second-generation NSX, which launched in 2015, may not have made the same impact, but it’s one of the more fondly remembered high-performance vehicles of the last decade.
If the new EV does turn out to be the next NSX, it’ll have some lofty expectations to meet. The last version of the car, 2022’s goodbye Type S edition, featured a hybrid powertrain that combined a twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V-6 with a trio of electric motors. The combined output was 600 hp and 492 ft lbs of torque, which, one would assume, would be the absolute minimum for the upcoming EV.
