About 100 Honda North America associates will be picked from however many current employees apply to build the Acura NSX. The guy in charge of development is an American, too. Suspension specialist Ted Klaus is the Large Project Leader on the Acura NSX.
Ted Klaus didn't list his BS in mechanical engineering from Notre Dame or his 20-plus years with Honda and Acura as, among other things, HRA's first Vehicle Dynamic Evaluator. He is both a test driver and a suspension engineer, both of which bode well for the coming Acura. Ted Klaus is a racer, too, as are many engineers at Honda R&D. The price? “Amazingly affordable, within the range of the Porsche 911.”
“The drive-train is being developed in Japan. (The chassis tuning is being done in the U.S.)
Could the NSX lead to other performance cars? “Our mandate was to make a halo vehicle. The guys saying to do that are making product plans. This is an opportunity to leverage the NSX and S2000.”
How may are you going to make? “The car will be rare, that's important.”
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