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Honda NSX and its never-ending dreams

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Honda has released a new promo video for the NSX. Pleasingly, it’s not over-produced and there’s no Hollywood style voiceover. There’s lots of old skool footage of the original NSX lapping the Nürburgring Nordschleife before a GT5-style animation of the new NSX concept doing the same. About all we can fault is some of the [...]

Super Bowl XLVI ad: The Seinfeld Chronicles

Next up on the Super Bowl XLVI ad reel is Jerry Seinfeld and his crusade to become the very first owner of the new Acura/Honda NSX. The NSX concept was the star of the recent Detroit Motor Show and it’s a shame Jerry, and others, will have to wait until around 2015 to get their [...]

Super Bowl XLVI ad: Ferris Bueller cashes in

The US is gearing up for Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday. For gearheads, as the yanks call us, that means a piston of new car-related television commercials (nice collective noun that, a piston). One of the first to be released features Matthew Broderick and his Honda CR-V. The concept isn’t exactly original, but if you’re [...]

2012 Detroit Motor Show photo gallery

Here we have a selection of images from the floor of the Detroit Motor Show, or more correctly, the North American International Auto Show. Unlike Tokyo late last year there’s a noticeable lack of weird and wonderful concept creations, but we certainly applaud the appearance of the Honda NSX Concept. It’s easily the clear star [...]

VIDEO: Honda NSX Concept’s SH-AWD in action

This video released by Honda shows its new NSX Concept in simulated driving scenes from the Sony Playstation game Gran Turismo. Extra graphics also illustrate how the NSX Concept’s very clever Sport Hybrid SH-AWD system works. In addition to the mid-mounted 3.5 litre VTEC V6 petrol engine there’s three electric motors in all; one at [...]

VIDEO: Honda NSX Concept

Already there’s a number of videos on YouTube featuring the stunning new Honda NSX Concept. Here’s three of the best we’ve found so far.

Detroit 2012: Honda NSX Concept

“Like the first NSX, we will again express high performance through engineering efficiency.” Speaking at the Detroit motor show, Takanobu Ito, President and CEO of Honda Motor Co, ushered in a new era for the iconic NSX nameplate. Wearing Acura badging for the North American audience the concept on display looks quite handy. We’re sure [...]

Marco Simoncelli 1987–2011

It is with deep regret that we bring you more sad news from the motorsport world with word that young MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli lost his life at yesterday’s Malaysian GP. The 24-year-old Italian rider crashed out on lap two of the race and fell into the path of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. The [...]

VIDEO: Casey Stoner going slower than ever

A rare step into the world of two wheels for AUSmotive to bring you this highly detailed super slow-mo of Australia’s own Casey Stoner. After the break you’ll see the 2007 MotoGP champ slowed down to 1000 frames per second while he talks us through the adrenalin rush a knee down at wide open throttle [...]

AIMS 2010: Photo gallery

Here is the AUSmotive photo gallery from the Australian International Motor Show industry day. There are 128 photos in all and you can simply click on each thumbnail to access a 2000px super image. Highlights include a couple of track specials in the form of the awesome Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and the rear-engined V6 [...]

Designed to win

Format67 bring us this remarkable short film. It features a Honda NSX moving through the streets of Frankfurt en route to its ultimate destination—the ultimate destination—the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The credits at the end of the film say it was inspired by Ayrton Senna. Throughout the clip the following quotes from Senna are featured: “The main [...]

The odd couple

Here’s an interesting video comparison from Autocar. On hand is the awesome Audi R8 V10 being pestered by a (UK market only) buzzing Honda Type R Mugen. Now, at £40K the Mugen is no shortcut to cheap thrills by any means. But asking it to keep up with the £100K R8 is a pointless exercise, [...]

Watch car go, white sox!

Apologies for what has to be one of the cheesiest and least successful puns ever on AUSmotive, but, well, those white socks don’t leave a lot to work with. Stand back, though, and you see those white feet belong to the late, great Ayrton Senna. He is at the wheel of the Honda NS-X and [...]

VIDEO: I think I’m turning Japanese

If you’re not familiar with the work of Japanese magazine crew Best Motoring you’re about to see the hi jinx they get up to. They set to the track with a hero of hot hatches for a three lap shootout. In starting order, the cars appearing are, MINI Cooper S, Mazda3 MPS, Renaultsport Megane 225, [...]