“It’s finally happening,” is something that the CarShowroom team and the motoring media at large has said either internally or publicly at some point during the NSX’s journey from conception and its seemingly over-protracted road to production.
On that note, Acura (Honda’s North American face that’s been charged with leading the NSX project) is very pleased to announce that series production for their halo hybrid supercar will commence in April 2016 at their Performance Manufacturing Centre in Marysville, Ohio. Towards later in the month, to be precise.
As already established, the car itself will be entirely manufactured in the United States, with the 3.5-litre twin-turbo V6 petrol engine being assembled by a master technician for 6 hours before being attached to its hybrid components – three electric motors (one on each front wheel and another in between the rear wheels).
Combined output stands at 573hp (427kW) and 645Nm of torque, enough brute force to have the all-wheel driven 1,725kg NSX dispatch 100km/h from standstill in 3 seconds and up its 9-speed dual-clutch transmission to a top speed of 307km/h.
As you can tell by the video, there’s a lot of technology and new manufacturing techniques developed specifically to meet Honda’s exceptionally high expectations for the NSX. The ‘Ablation Casting’ in particularly interesting, as is the MIG welding procedure using robots that rotate the entire spaceframe to more precisely weld componets.
There’s obviously a lot of hype surrounding the NSX, least of which stemming from the legacy behind that famous name, leaving the 2017 model very large shoes to fill.
Deliveries for the US-allocated NSXs will likely start in early May, with European markets due to receive Honda-braded units shortly after that.
