Hab grad noch was vernommen über den neuen HSC bzw. über die gesamte sportliche Fahrzeugpalette von Honda:
Zitat aus dem Car Magazine:
Honda has quietly shelved plans for a second generation NSX, CAR has learned. The HSC concept - with its classic supercar shape, mid-mounted 345bhp V6 and rear-wheel drive - was set to replace the existing NSX in two years, but that's now on ice. It gets worse. Plans for UK imports of the stripped out NSX Type-R have also been ditched. Honda cannot justify the investment necessary to train all its dealers to service such a niche model. Long-term the news is grimmer still. Honda has no replacement S2000 in the works, either. The quick and easy explanation behind this bewildering sports car about-turn at Honda is money. The bottom line is that the company anticipates greater returns by concentrating on other models, especially MPVs and SUVs in America and China, than by pumping time and cash into low volume techy sportsters. This is just the opening bell on Honda's decision to abandon its sports car heritage. Honda has no shortage of committed, talented engineers and designers who would kill to do a new NSX. But too few senior people feel strongly enough to push to do another one. Their decision has been prompted be several factors: the NSX has never been a banker; the HSC show car didn't cut it on the design front; and while factions from American Honda were reportedly pushing for 'a $40,000 Boxter rival', the counter proposal from Japan was for a balls out $100,000 super coupé. Honda is the one company in Japan that could do both cars and make a great fist of it. But in the end, it decided on neither.
And yet things can, and do, change fast inside Honda. When necessary, projects get started, stopped, or rejigged in rapid order. There's still a faint chance Honda may sign up for another top tier flagship sports coupé. After all, we are talking about the NSX here, the car that had its chassis tuned by Ayrton Senna, traumatised Ferrari and sparked an engineering revolution at Maranello.
