New Acura NSX in GT5?

[uMadson?]

... and besides, PD is fond of using "incomplete" tracks for videos before releasing them for us to play.

In the Spec 2.0 intro, the Test Track had no scenery at all. in this video, there were some scenery, yes, but look at the background in akuyuku's first image. The scenery details are just a blank. At least this is better than nothing at all.

 

[GTP_Gearhead]

Nice car.

More importantly, what is that track at 1:58? It looks stunning.

Also, it appears in AK 1st picture, we are looking at a sunset.

 

[Timppaq]

... and besides, PD is fond of using "incomplete" tracks for videos before releasing them for us to play.

In the Spec 2.0 intro, the Test Track had no scenery at all. in this video, there were some scenery, yes, but look at the background in akuyuku's first image. The scenery details are just a blank. At least this is better than nothing at all.

It's a sea

 

[uMadson?]

It's a sea

The sea's at the other side bro

Although I also thought of it. Maybe, just maybe.

 

[kennylmao]

Does anyone realize how long the new test track will be?

I imagine it to be approximately.....fricking long!

Can Gran Turismo be the official driving simulator platform for Japanese car manufacturers to showcase their new cars/concepts?

All Gran Turismo videos are just pure brilliance!

 

[ParkourVeyron]

Great, another Japanese car, just what we need! Thank you PD! This is proof that they don't really listen to us about anything other than minor improvements and bug fixes.

 

[Short Bus]

Great, another Japanese car, just what we need! Thank you PD! This is proof that they don't really listen to us about anything other than minor improvements and bug fixes.

Yeah you know, because none of us would die for a Boss 302 or even a GT-500 (Mustang).

The last car I'm interested in is an Acura concept car that will never see the light of day.

 

[McLaren]

Great, another Japanese car, just what we need! Thank you PD! This is proof that they don't really listen to us about anything other than minor improvements and bug fixes.

This an exception to the rule considering the NSX's return has been a well-desired car for the past 7 years.

This thread already makes me laugh with all the Honda talk.

Yeah you know, because none of us would die for a Boss 302 or even a GT-500 (Mustang).

The last car I'm interested in is an Acura concept car that will never see the light of day.

I think we all get your dislike for the car after 5 pages.

And yes, it will see production.

 

[NEPALII]

This an exception to the rule considering the NSX's return has been a well-desired car for the past 7 years.

This thread already makes me laugh with all the Honda talk.

I think we all get your dislike for the car after 5 pages.

And yes, it will see production.

The NSX was unique back then and it's performance is amazing even to today's standards. This new NSX sounds boring to me. Hybrid isn't the way to produce a sports or supercar.

There is no soul, no roar from an hybrid car and I think a car like the NSX needs that. Honda's intention with this one, in my opinion, is just to make it an every day car rather than a performance machine like the original NSX, which is sad, as I was hoping Honda would have a performance machine like Nissan has the GTR.

The car looks great but technically it sounds boring to me.

 

[kennylmao]

In my personal opinion the car is not that good looking. Front lights look like the GT by Citroen. Front fascia look like a mix between a typical Honda and a Mazda smiley face. The butt? Looks pretty decent. Well those are only my opinion.

 

[CorvetteConquer]

It's funny how all of PD's promo videos are of Japanese cars. Well, it IS a great car (the NSX), so I welcome this concept to GT. You just got to hope they can stay this current with other cars/concepts from OTHER MANUFACTURERS OUTSIDE OF JAPAN.


0 Premium RUFs. The newest RUF in GT5 is from 2000. How sad/pathetic....
1 premium Acura NSX Concept (promo video) released during its debut at the (NAIAS). How strange....

 

[W3H5]

Am I the only person that thinks this car looks like the offspring of an R8 and the Cadillac Cien? Super sexy though.

 

[ParkourVeyron]

The last car I'm interested in is an Acura concept car that will never see the light of day.

Exactly my point.

This an exception to the rule considering the NSX's return has been a well-desired car for the past 7 years.

Well, the Toyota FR-S whatchamacallit thing was too, and so was the GT-R, and so was the...
See my point? An exception has been made every single time, they (as in the optimistics and the fanboys) say the first DLC was just a test, they say the second DLC was just a test, when does the BS stop and sense kicks in? If people keep making exceptions, then there will be no exceptions, it will just become accepted.

 

[danjee]

Am I the only person that thinks this car looks like the offspring of an R8 and the Cadillac Cien? Super sexy though.

They thought Cien on Jalopnik too. You're definitely right.

 

[danben7]

This an exception to the rule considering the NSX's return has been a well-desired car for the past 7 years.

This thread already makes me laugh with all the Honda talk.

I think we all get your dislike for the car after 5 pages.

And yes, it will see production.

It's been (almost) confirmed that the new NSX will be put into production for 2013, I don't see why people would complain.

I wish they'd put the Furai into production

 

[CorvetteConquer]

Remove the logo with your mind. You might think it's an Aston Martin.

 

[danjee]

If people keep making exceptions, then there will be no exceptions, it will just become accepted.

Maybe there's just a lot of exciting Japanese cars coming out now. And, come on, successor to the NSX? It's a big deal.

So what if it's Japanese? It's still an awesome, sexy car that's being added to GT5! Quit complaining.

 

[Dmarc_Atl]

I think its just 1 track in that video.
Cant wait for what ever it is.
I hope we get more than 1 track

 

[W3H5]

I think its just 1 track in that video.

HSR is definitely also featured in the video, but we already have that, the 'Ring also makes a short appearance so there are more than one, but only one new track it seems to be.

 

[MTLclllutch]

the production model is gonna be gorgeous. Those lines are amazing.

 

[Short Bus]

I think we all get your dislike for the car after 5 pages.

And yes, it will see production.

I don't dislike the car, it looks like it could be pretty awesome. I even really want to love Honda again like I used to. Anything I've said about Honda that's been in the negative has been said due to disappointment for what they have become compared to what they were.

It's just really hard to be excited about a concept car that very well could be vapor-ware. Maybe they'll surprise me like Toyobaru did with the FT-86/FRS/BRZ, but I'm not going to get my hopes up for a car that's clearly out of my price range anyway.

 

[Dmarc_Atl]

HSR is definitely also featured in the video, but we already have that, the 'Ring also makes a short appearance so there are more than one, but only one new track it seems to be.

Yea thats what I was saying.One new track..... that I spotted atleast.

 

[McLaren]

The NSX was unique back then and it's performance is amazing even to today's standards. This new NSX sounds boring to me. Hybrid isn't the way to produce a sports or supercar.

Bullocks. Full of bullocks.

Unless you're telling me you know better than Porsche for creating a $800,000 hybrid supercar & duo of GT3 Hybrid race cars which have proven to be extremely competitive.

There is no soul, no roar from an hybrid car

This sounds pretty mean to me for a hybrid car.

and I think a car like the NSX needs that. Honda's intention with this one, in my opinion, is just to make it an every day car rather than a performance machine like the original NSX, which is sad, as I was hoping Honda would have a performance machine like Nissan has the GTR.

It's funny you claim this knowing full well you have no idea what this car actually sounds like in real life.

Even cuter is that you're confusing this car with a typical hybrid. The hybrid of this car is the drivetrain, which as Honda says, "It uses a pair of electric motors to generate torque and apply it to the front wheels for better cornering control and improved handling."
Sounds like a performance machine to me.

The car looks great but technically it sounds boring to me.

That's a shame seeing as you seem to have the completely opposite view of it.

 

[Short Bus]

Unless you're telling me you know better than Porsche for creating a $800,000 hybrid supercar & duo of GT3 Hybrid race cars which have proven to be extremely competitive.

Just wanted to comment on this specifically....

More often than not when something is competitive it does so because a builder/manufacturer made it work within a given set of rules and regulations. It doesn't necessarily mean that the technology put into the car is superior to that of another, it just means that the people who organize that particular series have allowed for it to be there. For all we know it's competitive because the non hybrid cars are restrained in some way.

As far as the setup in the car featured in this thread, I think it's a really neat, and very compact way of implementing AWD. I've been wondering when somebody was going to create a car with this type of layout. Now I'm wondering when somebody is going to completely remove the engine from the wheels and only use it as a generator for electric motors at each wheel.

 

[McLaren]

Just wanted to comment on this specifically....

More often than not when something is competitive it does so because a builder/manufacturer made it work within a given set of rules and regulations. It doesn't necessarily mean that the technology put into the car is superior to that of another, it just means that the people who organize that particular series have allowed for it to be there. For all we know it's competitive because the non hybrid cars are restrained in some way.

The GT3 Hybrid is the car that has been restrained, not the competition. In its first VLN race, it dominated & won. At ALMS, it destroyed everyone.

At the American Le Mans Series' six-hour endurance race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in September, the GT3 R Hybrid walked away from the field, posting the fastest laps in the GT class and stopping only three times for fuel, compared with other competitors' five or more stops. Because the ALMS hasn't yet written the rules to cover this technology, the GT3 R Hybrid is ineligible for points. Porsche calls the car a "racing lab." I would like to publicly apply for the position of lab rat.

At the 24 Hours of Nurburgring however, it was given weight restrictions/penalties which hindered it to the 28th. Its previous year however, it lead for 8 hours unchallenged.
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/25/2011-24-hours-of-nurburgring-porsche-911-gt3-r-hybrid-2-0-punis/


So, your last sentence is really all you know about it from what I'm getting.

 

[Short Bus]

The GT3 Hybrid is the car that has been restrained, not the competition. In its first VLN race, it dominated & won.

At the 24 Hours of Nurburgring however, it was given weight restrictions/penalties which hindered it to the 28th. So, your last sentence is really all you know about it from what I'm getting.

Sure, but what I'm saying is that when every car is built to a certain set of rules, they're all being restrained in one way or the other. In this case, Porsche used the rules to develop a car that's dominating. Chances are the event organizers are working to adjust the rules to achieve relative parity.

Unfortunately the days of "run what ya brung" are long gone.

That doesn't take away from the fact that what Porsche has achieved is very impressive. I'm just trying to say that I don't necessarily think that they managed to do it because the hybrid route is ultimately superior; I think they did it because they saw an opportunity to use that technology to post up some Ws by taking advantage of the regulations.

*edit* okay I read the quote you threw in there that I thought was mine.... so nevermind, it wasn't as impressive as I thought if they built a car completely outside of a rule-set. Sure, they won, but who cares? Their opposition wasn't allowed to take the gloves off.

 

[ParkourVeyron]

Maybe there's just a lot of exciting Japanese cars coming out now. And, come on, successor to the NSX? It's a big deal.

So what if it's Japanese? It's still an awesome, sexy car that's being added to GT5! Quit complaining.

You have obviously not read my post thoroughly. It seems that no matter what, it's ALWAYS a big deal to 99% of the people on here. (fanboys) I've lost hope in PD. They don't listen to the few of us that aren't fanboys, and every time they feed us a big plate of crap the fanboys gobble it down. They could give us a freaking Oscar-Meyer Wiener truck and you all would love it, because in your eyes EVERYTHING THAT PD DOES IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. We have enough concepts. We have enough Japanese cars.

And I can complain all I want to as long as it's not against the AUP.

 

[McLaren]

*edit* okay I read the quote you threw in there that I thought was mine.... so nevermind, it wasn't as impressive as I thought if they built a car completely outside of a rule-set. Sure, they won, but who cares? Their opposition wasn't allowed to take the gloves off.

Doesn't matter. Porsche is leading the way for the future of GT racing, & shown that hybrid technology is vastly superior.

It's not their fault the opposition didn't think to field the technology into racing first. And it shows through ineligible points & weight penalties that no, they didn't "win" in the end, but it's also not their goal. It's an experimental car bringing in promising results. In 2 years, the 918 RSR will more than likely have hybrid competitors of its own at Le Mans as well.

You have obviously not read my post thoroughly. It seems that no matter what, it's ALWAYS a big deal to 99% of the people on here. (fanboys) I've lost hope in PD. They don't listen to the few of us that aren't fanboys, and every time they feed us a big plate of crap the fanboys gobble it down. They could give us a freaking Oscar-Meyer Wiener truck and you all would love it, because in your eyes EVERYTHING THAT PD DOES IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. We have enough concepts. We have enough Japanese cars.

And I can complain all I want to as long as it's not against the AUP.

The car will be designed and built in Ohio by an American company. Sounds like a fair compromise for a car that will just be using Japanese parts.

But, I doubt that'll be enough for you.

 

[Short Bus]

Doesn't matter. Porsche is leading the way for the future of GT racing, & shown that hybrid technology is vastly superior.

It's not their fault the opposition didn't think to field the technology into racing first. And it shows through ineligible points & weight penalties that no, they didn't "win" in the end, but it's also not their goal. It's an experimental car bringing in promising results. In 2 years, the 918 RSR will more than likely have hybrid competitors of its own at Le Mans as well.

They've shown that it's superior by beating a bunch of cars that were all restrained by a rule set?

That's like building the Red Bull X car, throwing it in an F1 race, and saying that whatever technology it was built with is superior to the tech in the cars it beat. The analogy of tying one's hand behind their back fits perfectly, those that raced against this Porsche apparently had to fight this Porsche with one hand tied behind their back.

 

[McLaren]

They've shown that it's superior by beating a bunch of cars that were all restrained by a rule set?

It was restrained by the exact same rules as they were. Porsche just chose a different powerplant that wasn't in the rule book. That's fair game.
And if you read what I post, it ended up being ineligible for points anyway & at Nurburgring, it was restrained far more than the other cars.


So, your little analogy I'm deleting holds no water. The car followed all the rules & even in the end, was penalized for it. It is no different from the Formula 1 cars of the past that ended up re-writing the rule books following their debuts.