Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Acura Comptech NSX

Acura is a trademark used by the manufacturer Japan of cars Honda in the United States , Canada and Hong Kong since March 1986, to attack the market for luxury cars. The brand was introduced in Mexico in 2004 and China in 2006. It also plans to introduce Acura to the Japanese domestic market in 2008. With the Acura brand, Honda leads the way to being the first Japanese luxury car market outside Japan. Before Acura, automobiles exported from Japan were primarily economical design for consumers with low cost. In 1986, after a decade of research and development, Honda Motor Company opened 18 new outlets in the United States fully to support its Acura division. 1 This was the first Japanese luxury brand to market, and its initial offering consisted of four models:

Acura Nsx 2012 The success of these models led to competing with the Japanese luxury Lexus from Toyota and Infiniti from Nissan .

In 1990, four years after the debut of the Legend and Integra, Acura introduced the NSX, a sporty rear-drive V6. Its name is an acronym for N ew S e X ports perimental and introduced as the first Japanese car capable of competing with Ferrari and Porsche . 1 A pesar del fuerte inicio de la marca (en términos de aceptación en el mercado), las ventas cayeron de mediados a finales de los 90s. This vehicle was the standard of the Acura brand, in addition to the first production made entirely of aluminum . Despite the strong start to the brand (in terms of market acceptance), sales fell in the mid to late 90s.

Since entering the market, Acura has been involved with racing in the United States, specifically in the series Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and IMSA GT Championship . Since 1991, reached an agreement with Comptech Racing to use the Acura NSX's V6 engine in the prototype “Camel Lights – Spice Engineering” from Comptech. Later, Acura win the Championship Ligths in its initial year, along with a class of 24 hours of Daytona . Acura and Comptech would win Lights Championship in 1992 and 1993, and another class at Daytona in 1992 and the 12 Hours of Sebring 1993.