Honda HSV-010 GT Race Car

[CosmosMpower]

Beautiful, sounds awesome and looks incredibly fast on track.



http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2...gt-series.html

Youtube link on track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCqY-vAX4EA

Enjoy.

[Nexus Flux]

I don't know weather to get a bucket for the drool or clean my pants. That's one sexy Honda

[cwisenheimer]

Too bad Honda killed the NSX it was based on.

[altiain]

I think it's crap. Honda used a rules loophole to race a one-off car in a series based on production cars with homologation rules.

With the death of the S2000, Honda has totally lost the plot. They don't make a single car worth getting excited about, this included.

I think Peter DeLorenzo summed it up quite nicely yesterday on Autoextremist...

And what about Honda? Here is a company that was founded on risk-taking and pushing the envelope by a gifted engineer who believed in the enduring strengths of solid, reliable and good performing engines. It wasn’t the Honda Quality Company, or the Honda Transportation Company, it was the Honda Motor Company, a bold, competitive enterprise that reveled in innovation and proved its competence and technical acumen on racetracks the world over.

This was the Japanese automobile company that was crawling with enthusiasts - and the absolute antithesis of what Toyota stood for - the one that marched to a different drummer and awed its competitors and buyers alike with a series of vehicles that bristled with creativity, vision and an unbridled sense of how it was supposed to be.

But that wasn’t the car company on display at Cobo Hall last week. No, the Honda I witnessed at the Detroit Auto Show was barely recognizable, a lurid mash-up of reduced expectations, abominable design, paunchy, overweight and miserable excuses for “new” (the horrendous Honda Crosstour and Acura ZDX being egregious examples No. 1 & 2), the stunningly bad (the entire Acura lineup is a living and breathing class on how not to design cars), and a flat-out blown opportunity, the frighteningly mediocre and wildly underwhelming Honda CR-Z.

What happened? How can a car company with such a glorious history and pedigree drive it off into a ditch so convincingly? How can a company that was so out front of everyone else in terms of engineering-in responsiveness and “fun-to-drive” into their vehicles end-up with a product lineup that’s so relentlessly bland and un-Honda-like that it’s just flat-out shocking?

We all saw this coming, of course. When the brilliantly balanced and exquisitely executed S2000 sports car was put out to pasture with no replacement you just knew that there was an ill-wind blowing at Honda headquarters. In the “old” days that never would have been allowed to happen, and to me it signaled a fundamental lack of understanding, or worse, a growing chorus of “it doesn’t matter” from a car company that should damn well know better.

There are some signs of life at Honda with the recent regime change, but then again they’re going to have to prove to me – and to its legions of fans out there in Consumer Land – that they not only get it, but that they’re going to get back to what they do best, and that is to build some of the best and most desirable mainstream cars available in the world.

Until that time I guess we’re stuck with exactly one vehicle from Honda – the Fit – that at least reminds us somewhat of what they’re capable of doing. Not Good.

[Nexus Flux]

I do agree with altiain though, one of the first things that poped into my mind when i read the article was "How are they racing a non production car in that series?"

[CosmosMpower]

I am dissapointed that Honda is so boring but I don't blame them one bit. It's a company just like any other and is in the market to make a profit. With the way the economy is right now sports cars just aren't that profitable. The last few years of the S2000 they had to basically give them away just to get rid of them.

Even if they built the actual NSX it was based on, it would be nothing like this car. CF body panels, 2,400 lbs?