Is Honda getting over "precious" about the type R badge???

[Pride]

In the world of supercars is Honda missing a trick in deciding now not to build an NC1-R???

Such a shame as surely this would be the golden opportunity to show the Supercar world that Honda/Acura can take the market if it's track performance in a Road car the high end customer is looking for??

https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a31002833/honda-acura-nsx-type-r-not-happening/

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/02/19/honda-type-r-racing-related-cars-only-nsx-unlikely/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMrulTesLKH4Ny5wrmRf9vbhwQKN 97-gNU_JYFGLmtFWwMX4rXQi4cpKqwIT1HfgNkvvWQ_J-hezaFUES_HOZszG7c380P3d1LGTiDmizffjwD6wpySeulyc4Yh 65kONEXLnClfRTnhtJ5DbbAK65i0AMaWAL77azfyof01XhwQ-

What's your thoughts?

[nobby]

Judging by some of the soundings coming out of Honda is that they dont have much interest in developing sports cars for domestic purposes anytime soon which is a a real shame as Toyota has pulled itself from the ashes and now are willing to invest in their GR division etc.

[CideRed]

i think the development costs of doing a lightweight track focused "halo" model would probably struggle to be made up just in additional revenues... so you'd do it more for the promotional/marketing benefit of your car appearing in the magazines, etc.

But from a platform already 1750kg+, there is no guarantee at all if would attract the same near universally great press the originals received. Press that repeats also... the DC2 Type-R as well as the original NSX still regularly pop up in the press. That's a lot of weight to compete with the GT3s, Pistas, etc of this world...

Shame though - as would be great to see them try

[goldnsx]

Honda has already tried it since 2015 again. It's not the cars, it's the market in general. Toyota can afford its luxury line due to having a strong basket of average cars, esp. being the leader in hybrid technology. The Civic Type R might be the last one for quite some time if not forever. Pretty sure no Type R of the NSX.