The NSX Gets Italian Coachwork and Keeps Its Clutch Pedal

The Tensei, the reworked Honda NSX that JAS and Pininfarina have been promising for some time, is now a finished car. Beneath its bodywork sits a V6 that breathes on its own, with no turbocharger or supercharger, and is rated at 425 horsepower. That output goes to the road through a gearbox with six forward ratios and a third pedal, the detail the collectors who gather in Palm Beach and Beverly Hills will likely care about most. Pininfarina drew the exterior, and the shape reads as unmistakably Italian in its proportions and surfacing. For the owner who has kept an original NSX in the garage all these years, this is the same idea carried out by an Italian design house, with the engine and the manual shift left in the driver's hands.

With reporting from Road & Track.