Acura has a brand new efficiency providing on sale within the type of the 2024 Integra Kind S, and to show the automobile’s mettle the automaker plans to enter one on this yr’s Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb.
Acura is not taking a inventory model to Colorado Springs, although. Acura has tapped HPD to develop a customized racing model. It is going to be entered within the Exhibition, with Loni Unser set to hop behind the wheel. The Unser household has been competing at Pikes Peak since 1926 and Loni made her debut in 2022, ending second in her class.
Her automobile’s mechanicals will largely be inventory, with the checklist of modifications restricted to a Borla exhaust, 19-inch Titan 7 wheels, Yokohama Advan A005, and a carbon-fiber entrance splitter and rear wing.
The Integra Kind S, which retails for $51,995, together with delivery, is powered by a 2.0-liter turbo-4 that is rated at 320 hp and mated completely to a 6-speed handbook transmission. Drive is to the entrance wheels solely.
Loni Unser and the 2024 Acura Integra Kind S HPD race automobile
Loni Unser and the 2024 Acura Integra Kind S HPD race automobile
Acura may also have an NSX Kind S on the mountain, though the second-generation supercar is now not in manufacturing. Acura is bringing a extremely modified instance with aerodynamic parts designed to spice up downforce whereas decreasing drag.
It was developed by HART, a skunkworks racing staff made up of volunteer Honda employees, and options an energetic rear wing, an prolonged entrance splitter, and a big diffuser. It additionally options enlarged turbocharged and weight financial savings of round 200 kilos.
The inventory powertrain within the NSX Kind S consists of a turbocharged 3.5-liter V-6 and trio of electrical motors producing a mixed 600 hp. The motors are organized two on the entrance and one on the rear with the V-6.
Acura NSX Kind S Lively Aero Examine
Driving the NSX, which is called the NSX Kind S Lively Aero Examine, might be Pikes Peak common James Robinson, who in 2020 scored a category file time of 10:01.913 behind the wheel of one other NSX.
This yr’s Pikes Peak is scheduled for June 25.
Acura may also enter a customized Integra and TLX Kind S, to be pushed by Paul Hubers and Jordan Guitar respectively. A 2023 TLX Kind S PMC Version may also function the official tempo automobile.
