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Written by Vijay Pattni
This is the Honda NSX GT3 racer. You know this car because you"ve seen it already. What you don"t know is that Honda is now offering this competition car for sale to customers around the world.For 465,000.That"s quite a lot of money ( 415k), but this is a full-bore GT3 racing car, eligible for championships across North America, Europe (N24 and Blancpain), Asia, Japan (GT300), Australia and the Intercontinental GT championship.It"s completed more than 50,000 miles of on track development over the last year, racked up a couple of race wins, and will be built alongside the production NSX, with the final GT3 stuff bolted up in Italy.It ditches the hybrid setup used on the road car so no three electric motors and associated stuff and instead uses the 500bhp, 3.5-litre twin-turbo V6 driving the rear wheels only. It features a six-speed sequential box, carbon clutch, adjustable dampers, Brembo brakes, and weighs in at a featherweight 1,240kg. A far cry from the road car"s 1,725kg.So, a proper racer that looks the nuts, for a cool 465,000. End of story.Except it"s not. Because our interest has been piqued by this car being offered up for global sale. Early last year, Nick Robinson one of the NSX"s development leaders said any potential NSX Type R could lose a significant amount of weight compared to the standard car. "There are places where weight could be cut out," he said.
Date written: 27 Jul 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8646
This is the Honda NSX GT3 racer. You know this car because you"ve seen it already. What you don"t know is that Honda is now offering this competition car for sale to customers around the world.For 465,000.That"s quite a lot of money ( 415k), but this is a full-bore GT3 racing car, eligible for championships across North America, Europe (N24 and Blancpain), Asia, Japan (GT300), Australia and the Intercontinental GT championship.It"s completed more than 50,000 miles of on track development over the last year, racked up a couple of race wins, and will be built alongside the production NSX, with the final GT3 stuff bolted up in Italy.It ditches the hybrid setup used on the road car so no three electric motors and associated stuff and instead uses the 500bhp, 3.5-litre twin-turbo V6 driving the rear wheels only. It features a six-speed sequential box, carbon clutch, adjustable dampers, Brembo brakes, and weighs in at a featherweight 1,240kg. A far cry from the road car"s 1,725kg.So, a proper racer that looks the nuts, for a cool 465,000. End of story.Except it"s not. Because our interest has been piqued by this car being offered up for global sale. Early last year, Nick Robinson one of the NSX"s development leaders said any potential NSX Type R could lose a significant amount of weight compared to the standard car. "There are places where weight could be cut out," he said.
Date written: 27 Jul 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8646
