New NSX FTW
Honda HSV-010 GT Debuted
If you're one of the many enthusiasts who bought this issue mainly because of the NSX name-drop on the cover, chances are you also woke up the morning of October 28th, 2009 with a giant hangover, having spent the preceding 24 hours drinking away the sorrows of Honda's announcement to retire the NSX from Super GT competition the day before-the final nail in the NSX's coffin, after Honda announced the end of its 15-year production run in 2005. Well, get ready to wake up sick again tomorrow-this time from celebration-because if you haven't heard by now, Honda recently announced its return to Super GT competition with this: the 3.4L, V-8-powered HSV-010 GT (Honda Sports Velocity, 10-cylinder, Gran Turismo) that's nothing more than a race-modified version of the company's planned V-10 successor to the NSX that was announced in late 2007, debuted at that year's Detroit Auto Show as the Acura ASCC, tested at Nurburgring within six months, and abandoned the following December due to the world's "poor economic conditions". Honda's appealing Super GT's homologation requirement that mandates a new car be produced for sale to the public before it can be deemed legal for competition-a favor we're hoping they don't get!
www.honda.com
Falkentire
Thinking that Myspace friend request from "Falken", or invite to become a fan of "Falken Tire" on Facebook are B.S. from some fanboy in the Middleofnowhere, USA? Guess again. Falken Tire announces the launch of its official social networking efforts, via Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter (with more to be added) by which friends, fans and followers will be among the first to receive news, event coverage and product give-aways from everyone's favorite rubber retailer.
www.falkentire.com
By the Numbers
5
The number of NSX-R GTs ever produced by Honda. Good luck ever even seeing one.
And Now Our Turn
In motorsports journalism news . . . we'd like to salute photographer Andy Willsheer for being a total badass when he recently shot this sequence of an out-of-control nitro funnycar at California's Pomona Raceway, while gathering event for an overseas magazine. [Editor's note: this is one of the only ways to get a domestic into our mag!]