Good news for fans of old V6 Japanese supercars. JAS Motorsport and Pininfarina have revealed that their first project will be a “derivative of the 1990-generation Honda NSX.” Woohoo!
So, that secret supercar we first heard about earlier this year will be a limited number of reworked Hondas. Pininfarina has a previous run with the Mk1 NSX, of course, though it didn’t design the final production car; it did the HP-X concept that previewed the production car.
Here, it returns to Senna’s favorite Japanese supercar with gusto. The Italian design house will redress the NSX in a full carbon-fiber body and give the cockpit a good redesign.
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JAS Motorsport—a long-time Honda racing partner—will bestow upon the NSX its vast motorsport know-how. It’ll use production cars from the early ’90s—chosen for their “chassis and mechanical base,” outfit them in either left- or right-hand-drive, and give the original naturally-aspirated V6 a little tickle for “the highest levels of power, torque and responsiveness.”
Each will be matched to a six-speed manual gearbox sending an unspecified number of horsepower to the rear wheels.
The as-yet-unnamed project will apparently “offer enthusiasts and collectors a new, modern definition of a Grand Touring concept that underpins the NSX’s DNA: High performance, perfectly balanced and safe, yet equally at home on the track.”
We’ll find out more in due course, ahead of its full reveal next year…
NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made.
