Honda Preparing To Challenge Porsche Cayman And Alfa Romeo 4C With US Built 400HP Baby NSX

The new Honda Civic Type R and NSX are just the beginning of Hondas revitalized performance car range. Auto Express has learned that an all-new mid-engined sports cars to go go up against the Porsche Cayman and Alfa 4C is in the pipeline.

The baby NSX coupe will bear similar proportions to Honda’s new flagship supercar and will also incorporate some of its technology such as the hybrid four-wheel drive system.

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TheSteve - 6/16/2015 12:41:16 PM

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(sigh) We've been listening to Honda/Acura talk about the NSX II for... what?... over a decade? And we're still waiting. It's still not finalize, not available for sale, but they're now talking about a "baby NSX". I just can't take these guys seriously until they start delivering on some of that talk.

MDarringer - 6/16/2015 2:38:49 PM

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Instead of it being aluminum and plastic and hybrid etc. Honda should make an utterly conventional Cayman competitor, badge it an Acura, price is $20K less, and sell the living crap out of it to get it in the hands of enthusiasts that will in turn extol the performance virtues of Acura.

TheSteve - 6/16/2015 3:23:31 PM

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MDarringer has a good point! If we look to the aircraft industry, extremely successful craft (e.g., the Pilatus PC12-NG) were not revolutionary. They just found a market, possibly a niche, and filled it very, very well! This is just another way of saying what MDarringer said.

freeagent - 6/16/2015 5:15:05 PM

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I agree, keep it simple. Cayman is a straightforward design; it just happens to be brilliantly executed. Honda will price itself out of the market if it puts in hybrid technology, 4WD, etc. Much better to just build a better mousetrap, competitive with the Cayman for less, and leave the technology BS to their volume cars.

MDarringer - 6/17/2015 10:21:43 AM

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Straightforward design plus brilliant execution almost always works. Doing this vehicle would be beyond simple. Take the Civic's engine cradle and front suspension and put it mid-ship. The development costs would be pretty low and the development time quite brief. This is precisely the kind of vehicle Acura needs to change its image of being the Japanese Mercury.

supermoto - 6/18/2015 9:14:22 AM

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LOL. It will only take about 20 years to come to market. And by the time it does, it won't be very impressive.