Acura unleashed its new NSX on
America's most significant auto show in Detroit on Monday with improvements that make it
faster, bigger and even more in-your-face.
The NSX
is the sports car that stunned the automotive world 25 years ago by showing
that a Japanese maker could compete with the Ferraris of the world in creating
an exotic, sexy and uncompromising car.
It has got a new engine, a
twin-turbocharged six-cylinder powerplant, coupled with three electric motors. The
new engine was larger and gulped more air, requiring significant changes to the
original concept. NSX will come with a nine-speed dual clutch
transmission.
NSX that goes into
production in Ohio will be 3 inches longer and an inch wider. It has larger air
ducts, especially behind the doors, to suck more air into the intercoolers for
those two turbos.
