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In the world of supercars is Honda missing a trick in deciding now not to build an NC1-R???
Such a shame as surely this would be the golden opportunity to show the Supercar world that Honda/Acura can take the market if it's track performance in a Road car the high end customer is looking for??
https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-car...not-happening/
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/02/19/...7azfyof01XhwQ-
What's your thoughts?
Judging by some of the soundings coming out of Honda is that they dont have much interest in developing sports cars for domestic purposes anytime soon which is a a real shame as Toyota has pulled itself from the ashes and now are willing to invest in their GR division etc.
i think the development costs of doing a lightweight track focused "halo" model would probably struggle to be made up just in additional revenues... so you'd do it more for the promotional/marketing benefit of your car appearing in the magazines, etc.
But from a platform already 1750kg+, there is no guarantee at all if would attract the same near universally great press the originals received. Press that repeats also... the DC2 Type-R as well as the original NSX still regularly pop up in the press. That's a lot of weight to compete with the GT3s, Pistas, etc of this world...
Shame though - as would be great to see them try
Honda has already tried it since 2015 again. It's not the cars, it's the market in general. Toyota can afford its luxury line due to having a strong basket of average cars, esp. being the leader in hybrid technology. The Civic Type R might be the last one for quite some time if not forever. Pretty sure no Type R of the NSX.