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Honda/Acura NSX Spy Video

We first caught sight of the full Honda/Acura NSX Prototype about 10 days a go, and ever since we have wanted to hear the beautiful melody of the front-engined V10 GT-R killer. Various amateur clips have been floating around youtube over the past few days, but only high quality content makes it onto WCF. Fortunately German magazine Auto Motor und Sport have met our high standards with the production of a spy video of the new NSX powering round Nurburgring. We highly advise watching all 3 minutes and 19 seconds of the video, but it is strongly recommended a clean pair of trousers is on hand – the sound of the engine is awesome!

Even though still in its early stages of development, it has been reported the NSX has already managed a lap time of just 7 minutes 37 seconds leaving it just 8 seconds behind its chief rival, the Nissan GT-R. With two more years of development left before the full production model is unveiled, it wouldn't be too demanding to expect this model break the 7min 20second barrier, but only time will tell.

 

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Jun 27, 2008 2:00 pm By Clinton Deacon
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Donculeoni Donculeoni
lol,,that SLK past the NSX.
June 27, 2008 7:07 pm
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jslcarfan jslcarfan
if you listen he wasnt even on the gas when it did. its almost as if he let it pass.. .. their right though it does sound good.
June 27, 2008 7:13 pm
BlueBiturbo BlueBiturbo
Front engined NSX ? Yukkk ! Where is a mid-engined car when you need one?
June 27, 2008 7:16 pm
1 reply
catchmyshadow catchmyshadow
lol, the SLK owns the NSX haha. anyway, u hear that exhaust note? never ever stock imho.
June 27, 2008 7:25 pm
Spyshot-73 Spyshot-73
Well , the people at Nurburgring must be raking in the cash letting all these cars test there. The NSX Sounds glorious , and even as a front engine car it seem to perform well and looks ballanced right.
June 27, 2008 7:31 pm
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peterjames7 peterjames7
is it just me or is the sillouette of this thing going round a track remeniscent of an SLR? but it is funny that the slk overtakes it!! lol
June 27, 2008 7:33 pm
Kepe Kepe
That thing revs high! And sounds very good, too :P If you people have eyes and ears attached to your head, and have some brains in the middle, you can obviously see that the NSX was running very slow (perhaps cooling down before exiting the track?) and let the SLK overtake. The NSX wasn't even in the correct line there, but made way so that he wouldn't ruin the lap of the SLK. Ok? :D
June 27, 2008 8:19 pm
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carcrazy1234 carcrazy1234
anyone else thing this sounds like the gallardo??? just slightly?? sounds sweet!!
June 27, 2008 8:53 pm
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DeRay DeRay
I didn't totally like the design of the new NSX and didn't like the fact that they were going with a front enging instead of the mid-engine however seeing this thing perform on the track. I am very pleased i applaud them for having the courage to get away from that design. there is no body roll its nice. they will reach their goal. Now if we could just get Mazda in on it the we'll have a battle Royale.
June 27, 2008 9:15 pm
dmanero dmanero
god damn, that sounds impressive. Like I said before I don't like the body style, but it may just grow on me over time.
June 27, 2008 11:33 pm
pzigly pzigly
Nissan just put in a punch and is waiting till everyone else delivers their punch before they deliver the final blow with the gtr spec-v. And befor they say GTR killer they should realize that the GTR is just a base of the car and you could probably extremely tune that car like the older ones. The NSX will not be able to be tuned as much as the turbo charged monster. And V10? They are probably getting 600-700hp out of it to beat a car with about 500hp
June 27, 2008 11:56 pm
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mortz mortz
it will have to beat the vettes time of 7.26 now starting to look like a bigger task for honda,
June 28, 2008 12:50 am
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mortz mortz
Nissans making huge leaps and bounds the v-spec will be a car hard to beat, and for japanese super cars the gtr is it, and if the max power out put for japanese production cars wasn't limited to 280ps( back then) the gtr would have been even faster and even have a bigger rep than it already has. the day honda make a faster car than the v-spec and get a better lap record then i will believe
June 28, 2008 2:29 am
Xanavi23 Xanavi23
Pzigly...of course the V-spec could lose more than 200lbs....but that doesnt mean anything, certainly not that it will. for various reasons there will be a limit to how much weight they can drop...the same goes for the NSX, they could drop 500lbs...that doesnt mean they wont. As for the Z-tune...you cant compare that to the NSX Type R...for one thing the Z-tune cost at least 250-300K, the NSX Type R cost about 120, maybe less...We're talking street cars and the Z-tune was a street car but it also had 85% of the parts out of a JGTC R34 Race Car...not fair in any way. So still even then the HONDA NSX was the fastest FACTORY/DEALER issue Japanese Supercar.
June 28, 2008 4:06 am
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Wunderkind Wunderkind
Has anyone noticed how small the air intakes are? Surely they'd need larger air intakes to feed cold air to the engine........................
June 28, 2008 6:32 am
mortz mortz
Does anybody know what the Z-tune did around the nurburgring??
June 28, 2008 7:11 am
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pzigly pzigly
Here is proof for Xanavi23 http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Skyline-GTR-vs-NSXR-vs-vs_30433.htm
June 28, 2008 7:32 am
mortz mortz
Yea i tried to find info on the z-tune and the nur ring but had ho luck, pzigly did you read the article of the vette doing a 7.26??
June 28, 2008 7:33 am
pzigly pzigly
Ya I saw it. But if you think about it, the track is 7-8 min long for a fast car. The GTR did it in 7:29, all the next gtr needs to do is get atleast half a second faster for each minute and it will beat this car by one or 2 seconds. I honestly think that the new tuned GTR will be 1-2 seconds faster than the current gtr espically since it will be lighter and have a even better tuned suspension. Also that long straight on the ring will hurt the gtr's time. The gtr has a short gear ratio so cars start to beat it at around 120 mph. We just have to wait and see what the new one will be.....
June 28, 2008 10:06 am
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Speedoholic Speedoholic
It's still not faster than the GT-R, the real surprise is the Lexus LF-A, it clocked 7:24 in Nordschleife.
June 28, 2008 10:54 am
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