The Honda/Acura NSX has had a acceptable run. The mid-engine supercar developed with ascribe from the allegorical Ayrton Senna aboriginal hit the bazaar in 1990 and didn't cease assembly until 2005, giving it one of the longest assembly runs in the business. But alike afterwards Honda chock-full affairs the NSX, it was still actuality campaigned in Japan's SuperGT antagonism series. No more, says Honda, as the 2010 regulations about-face alone to the use of front-engine, rear-drive chassis, banishment the NSX into retirement afterwards about two decades of duty.
Based on the roadgoing supercar, the SuperGT-spec NSX-GT featured a heavily adapted anatomy that swapped the banal axle V6 for a 500-horsepower competition-spec agent acquainted by Mugen and army longitudinally. The car's been apprenticed to three drivers' titles and three teams' championships in the Japanese touring car series.
No chat yet on what, if anything, will accomplish the NSX – or the Toyota MR-S for that amount – but Japanese automakers bottomward out of motorsports like so abounding flies, we won't be captivation our breath.