Acura teases final-edition NSX, which will say good-bye wearing a Type S badge

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Calling it the “best performing road-legal NSX ever,” Acura has announce a limited-production variant of its sleek but pointy supercar. It’ll wear the brand’s vaunted Type S badge and is said to deliver more power, quicker acceleration, and sharper handling.

It’ll also be the last of a breed.

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Every copy of the 2022 Acura NSX, produced at the brand’s Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio, will be a Type S. The cars will be powered by an enhanced version of the supercar’s twin-turbo V6 and Sport Hybrid SH-AWD system, though exact numbers are – as yet – hard to find. Stock versions make a combined 573 horsepower from its tag team of a gasoline engine and tri-motor hybrid system.

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In celebration of the final year of NSX production, just 350 of these exclusive supercars will be available across the globe. Over 80 per cent of those will be offered in the United States, marking the first time an NSX Type S has been sold outside of Japan. While teasers are notably short on details, the video above does show an aggressive diffuser and some carbon-fibre trim.

This generation of NSX may be coming to a close, but all signs point toward an all-electric performance machine from Acura at some point in the future. “Acura is a performance brand, a company of enthusiasts,” said Jon Ikeda, Vice President and Acura Brand Officer. “We will continue moving forward, actively investigating what the next generation of sports cars should be in an electrified era.”

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While the present-day NSX had a gestation period of several thousand epochs, it did what halo cars are supposed to do: generate buzz for the brand and imbue some of its higher-volume models with a taste of performance, be that actual speed or simply incorporating some related styling cues.

Since its reboot, the NSX initially sold roughly 50 units per annum in this country, falling to about half that number in recent years. Multiply those figures by ten to get sales stats south of the border. With those numbers in mind, and given the desire for some collectors to have the copies of cars from their final model year, the 300 unit target for the 2022 Type S is not unreasonable.