{"id":106470,"date":"2009-12-27T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/27\/video-honda-hsv-010-caught-testing-at-suzuka\/"},"modified":"2009-12-27T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T00:33:00","slug":"video-honda-hsv-010-caught-testing-at-suzuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/106470","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Honda HSV-010 caught testing at Suzuka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Motorsports<\/a>, Coupe<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, Japan<\/a>, Acura<\/a>, Honda<\/a>, Racing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Honda HSV-010 – Click above for image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nWith the exception of a singular shot and a brief press release<\/a>, Honda is predictably mum on details about its GT500-bound NSX replacement. Thankfully, one fan in Japan was able to snag shots of the HSV-010 undergoing testing at the Suzuka Circuit ahead of its first race in May, and judging by the pics below and videos after the jump<\/a>, SuperGT fans have plenty to be excited about.<\/p>\n

Based on reports from the ground, Honda will campaign four HSV-010s in the 2010 season, each of which was testing at the racetrack late last week (check the differing window banners in the gallery below). The driver line-up hasn’t been officially disclosed yet, but the new coupes will bear the numbers 8, 18, 32 and 100 at their debut May 20-21 at Suzuka.<\/p>\n

Powering the HSV-010 (which stands for Honda Sports Velocity) is a 3.4-liter V8 mounted in front and sending power to the rear wheels through a six-speed sequential gearbox — the same transmission used by Nissan and Toyota on its GT500 contenders. The styling bears some resemblance to prototypes<\/a> that ran the Nurburgring<\/a> in recent years, but it’s decidedly curvier, more aerodynamic and — to our eyes — damn sexy, particularly in matte black with the angry LED eyebrows.<\/p>\n

As previously reported<\/a>, Honda has no plans to sell a road-going version of the HSV-010 to consumers. Instead, the Big H has found a loop-hole in the SuperGT regulations that allows the automaker to campaign a car in the series that’s “production feasible” but not in production. So unless Honda reverses course and pulls an LFA<\/a>, the closest you’ll come to seeing and hearing the all-new NSX is in the videos after the jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATED<\/strong> with more videos after the jump and high-res images in the gallery below. Thanks Enzo!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gallery: Honda HSV-010 Spy Shots at Suzuka<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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[Source: Circuit Diary<\/a> via TOV<\/a> and Motors Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Performance, Japan, Acura, Honda, Racing Honda HSV-010 – Click above for image gallery With the exception of a singular shot and a brief press release, Honda is predictably mum on details about its GT500-bound NSX replacement. Thankfully, one fan in Japan was able to snag shots of the HSV-010 undergoing testing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}