The new Acura NSX isn’t a “numbers” car. Yet. That is to say, at this point we don’t have many numbers for it. We know it will have six cylinders arranged longitudinally in a V configuration, two turbochargers, three electric motors (two front, one rear), four driven wheels, and nine forward gears in its dual-clutch transmission, but even now, as the near-production version of the car sits in front of us on a clinically clean white floor somewhere in Honda’s Southern California R&D facility, there’s much we don’t know. Engine displacement, horsepower, torque, curb weight, and performance figures are undisclosed, even as the car’s lead engineer, the affable Ted Klaus, stands next to it, beaming. “Wait until you drive it,” Klaus says. “We’ll tell you everything then.”
We’re told the…
