A New Honda NSX Is Officially On The Way

Acura, Honda’s luxury North American wing, confirms that an “NSX-type” EV will land in 2027 or ’28

19 Aug 2024

We can finally put years worth of rumours, hints and reports to bed, because it’s official: the Honda NSX is getting a successor. This, clearly, is cause for some celebration, but you may want to hold off on setting off your party poppers and blowing those hooty noisemaker things for now.

Whenever we hear about an upcoming sports car these days, there’s always one thing we want to know, and that’s what’ll power it. And the way the NSX successor sends its power to the wheels is likely going to put plenty of people off: it’ll be electric.

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Confirmation of the car came from Shinji Aoyama, Honda’s global executive vice president, speaking to US media, including Motor1, during Monterey Car Week. He told journalists that “We are going to introduce a sports model in 2027 or 2028. We may not call it an NSX, but it will be an NSX-type of vehicle.”

This chimes with previous confirmation that Honda had an EV sports car concept at its R&D centre, and it looks like it’s now been given the green light for production. As expected, it’s set to use Honda’s upcoming 0 Series electric platform, which Aoyama says will allow it to sit low and be lightweight by EV standards.

It’s long seemed a question of when, not if, an NSX successor would appear, and all signs have pointed to it being electric from the start. As well as the hints from various Honda top brass, there were the sketches of the Electric Vision Design Study, a shadowy silhouette of a cab-forward supercar, shown off by Acura, Honda’s North American luxury brand, at Monterey last year.

Aoyama’s confirmation that a new supercar is on its way were also made in the context of Acura but, like the previous two generations of NSX, we’d imagine this one will wear Honda badges outside of the US and Canada.

Despite this confirmation finally putting endless rumours to rest, we’re still at least a couple of years off seeing the final car. In the meantime, do you reckon an electric car will be able to recapture the magic of its petrol and hybrid predecessors?

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