The Honda NSX will return as a nat-asp V6 restomod (re)designed by Pininfarina

Good news for fans of old V6 Japanese supercars. JAS Motorsport and Pininfarina have revealed that their first project will be a “derivative of the 1990-generation Honda NSX”. Woohoo!

So, that secret supercar we first heard about earlier this year will be a limited number of reworked Hondas. Pininfarina has previous with the Mk1 NSX, of course: though it didn’t design the final production car, it did the HP-X concept that previewed the production car.

Here, it returns to Senna’s favourite Japanese supercar with aplomb. The Italian design house will redress the NSX in a full carbon fibre body and give the cockpit a good going over.

JAS Motorsport – a long time Honda racing partner – will bestow upon the NSX its vast motorsport knowhow. It’ll use production cars from the early Nineties – chosen for their “chassis and mechanical base”, outfit them in either left- or right-hand-drive, and give the original naturally-aspirated V6 a little tickle for “the highest levels of power, torque and responsiveness”.

Each will be matched to a six-speed manual gearbox sending an unspecified number of horsepower to the rear wheels.

The as-yet-unnamed project will apparently “offer enthusiasts and collectors a new, modern definition of Grand Touring concept that underpins the NSX’s DNA: high performance, perfectly balanced and safe, yet equally at home on the track”.

We’ll find out more in due course, ahead of its full reveal next year…