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Re: Now THIS is a Hybrid!
Finally... a hybrid i'd actually drive and not feel like a hippie douche
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Acura NSX reborn in America as a Hybrid
by Justin Hyde / Motoramic-Yahoo! Autos
Announcing the rebirth of the Honda NSX: one of the most iconic sports cars of the 1990s will return in 2015 as an American-built Acura with all-wheel-drive and an electric-enhanced rear engine. Here's a hybrid to get excited for.
The NSX represented the pinnacle of Honda's sports heyday of the 1980s and '90s. Launched with input from Formula One great Ayrton Senna, the NSX set a brace of technological firsts -- from its aluminum monocoque frame to the variable valve timing that would become a standard on engines worldwide. The NSX wasn't the fastest or most-powerful supercar, but reflected Honda's balance between power, weight and handling -- a sweet spot that few cars have ever achieved.
Honda mulled replacing the NSX for years with a V-10 powered successor, but the company soon embraced smaller engines and a tight focus on fuel efficiency. Somewhere along the way, it also lost a piece of the racing spirit that birthed the NSX, unleashing a string of unsuccessful to ungainly models that offered little over their competitors.
After last year's update of the Honda Civic -- a freshening that did little to improve the car's weakening position against tough competition -- Honda's executives vowed to revive the company's soul. The new NSX, to be sold under the Acura brand, shows they're serious enough to design the most attractive Acura ever.
The concept retains the mid-engine V-6 layout of the original NSX, but adds in a new Honda all-wheel-drive system that relies on electric motors to power the front wheels. As with its predecessor, Honda vows the NSX won't rely on brute force, but combine lightweight materials with high technology for supercar performance and respectable fuel economy.
If there's a disappointment here, it's that Honda has held back several key details about the NSX concept, including the power its engines and electric motors will generate. But the U.S.-based team developing the NSX for production in Ohio has three years to get it right.
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Re: Now THIS is a Hybrid!
Looks like it'll be priced out of the average person's range... something like $85,000-$95,000 retail.
Either way, probably the best looking hybrid ever made. Hell i'd drive that electric-converted DMC-12 DeLorean if it was more like $25,000 and not $60,000.
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I'm buying a DMC-12 if I can get one more tour downrange before I get out. It's been my life long dream to own that car. The non-electric one of course.
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All the new stuff is always out of the general public's price range.
Exactly, I love when you see celebrities taking the high moral ground about buying a hybrid car or not supporting a particular company because of their work practices or environmental impact etc etc.
Your alternative is to then buy something more expensive. Easy for them to say and do, not so much for the Average Joe to do.
Agree with Axlin, finally a decent looking hybrid car that I would consider driving if price wasn't an issue. Better than the Toyota Prius
hybrid we have here in Oz 
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Right now the economics (to me) still don't favor buying one of these cars. It's still cheaper to buy the time tested Toyota 4 cylinder and put 300k miles on the thing. There is also diesel technology now that produces great MPG and you can run one of those cars for 10 yrs no problem (although most people don't keep cars as long as I do.)
Re: Now THIS is a Hybrid!
I'm buying a DMC-12 if I can get one more tour downrange before I get out. It's been my life long dream to own that car. The non-electric one of course.
It truely is the best looking hatchback in history imo. Hatchbacks rarely look sporty, yet the DeLorean found a way to be visually appealing, and remain visually, yet at the same time stay MODERN, even now in 2011. It still looks like a futuristic car.
At this point it has reached a timeless appeal and is a true classic.
I'm still pulling for a souped up all-electric DeLorean with Mr. Fusion fuel economy, and a hover converstion in 2015.
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