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if you weren't around 25 years ago in the Acura NSX first debuted you really missed something it was a sensation which is interesting because it was also rather subtle it came after supercars of the era and said I can do something you can do but with less brawn with more finesse with more elegance now 25 years later and ten years after the original NSX died it's been reborn here's the second gen car but much more complex under the skin the powertrain is getting a ton of attention it is still a mid-engine car with a twin-turbo v6 now mounted longitudinally not transversely in the car in between it and it's nine speed dual clutch transmission is one of three electric motors the other two are planted up front in the bow each one serving one of the two front wheels and that means it has instant and fully independent power and torque vectoring makes for a very smart as well as the very crisp all-wheel drive experience I'm sure exact numbers are still pending on the performance but I don't think it takes a lot of convincing you've got a carbon-fiber plate under the bottom of the vehicle and a lot of very strong stiff aluminum members taking up onto the chassis and other structure and Honda says they've got a unique way of making them that achieve some of the strength and stiffness of forging not just cast technology inside you'll find an LCD instrument panel that's actually becoming kind of common than cars these days but it's actually relatively clean by comparison to others you've got a low - they promise and supposedly thin eight pillars for good outward visibility as you dive in and out of those corners and seek apex ease I'll see what happens when we actually get one those eight pillars still look pretty chunky to me and when they're laid down low like that the sin tends to be compounded most cars in this class have pretty awful visibility out the corners the styling is hard to miss but it's not as distinctive as the original NSX was from the rest of the market orders will begin in summer of 2015 production starts in fall deliveries shortly after that I'd imagine and we're guessing at the price but the rumor mill is saying a buck and a half that also makes it different than the original NSF