Yahoo Finance Honda Sports Car Spied, Looks Like a Baby NSX (Spoiler Alert: It Isn't)
• This Honda-badged sports car was spied.
• Proportions suggest a mid-mounted engine (or electric motor).
• Could it be a smaller successor to the Acura NSX?
UPDATE 9/12/22: We were informed by many readers that the car our bleary-eyed staffer spotted is a design study from a few years ago. Sometimes, the thrill of discovery turns out to be not so thrilling after all. But it did give us the opportunity to hear from one reader, Sebastien Clarke, who wrote: "I worked on the Honda Sport in 2012 at the Pasadena Honda advanced studio. I modeled the scale model with Christopher Dickhoff. Brian Oh (now at Canoo) was the designer under the studio direction of Jason Wilbur. The scale model was then scaled up directly to produce a non-running prototype. This project was great and would have been great for Honda. Low cost, lightweight, simple proven technology, analog settings. It was meant as a replacement for the S2000, not the NSX. Hope this helped!" (It did.)
A new father's bleary-eyed late-night run for baby supplies suddenly becomes more interesting when something catches his eye in the lighted window of a darkened office park. He swings into the lot for a closer look and discovers this: a Honda-badged sports car that looks like a shrunken Acura NSX. But what is it?
A few months ago, Honda revealed that it is preparing two electric sports cars and showed teaser images of both. But this office-park discovery doesn't seem to match the shape of either of the cars under the sheet. The front-end styling, the appearance of the large side air intakes, and the location of the cockpit within the body all appear similar to another unidentified Honda sports car, a roofless roadster that surfaced on the internet in 2017.
This time, the car is a glass-canopied coupe. Behind the glass canopy, we can see exoskeleton-like A-pillars. The car is left-hand drive, and the passenger compartment appears sized strictly for two. An ultra-short nose looks largely taken up with cooling apparatus, strongly suggesting a mid-engine—or is that mid-motor?—layout.
It could be a successor to the mid-engine S660 sports car, which at one time was rumored to be headed to the United States. And that could take the form of an EV, aligning with the brand's announcement earlier this year. With the Acura NSX now bowing out, the time is ripe for a new Honda sports car, and we'd love to see this one in the light of day.
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