This Sunday, plenty of wild machinery will be scrambling up the hill at the 93rd running of the Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The next-generation Acura NSX won’t be the fastest by a long shot—but as the official pace car of the legendary hill climb, it’ll be out in front for the entirety of at least one run.
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Unfortunately, we won’t get to see the full potential of the new NSX in this role—the car’s claimed 550-plus horsepower twin-turbo V-6, 9-speed paddle-shift transmission, Sport Hybrid electrical assist, and Super Handling All-Wheel Drive of this specially-prepped but mostly stock NSX probably won’t be pushed to the max as it leads the field of 140 entrants to the top of the 14,110-foot peak. Not that they couldn’t be: The wheelman will be Sage Marie, a senior head of Honda’s U.S. public relations team and a road racer who’s competed twice at Pikes Peak.
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Acura will also run a classic NSX up the hill at Pikes Peak, along with examples of the company’s current-day sport sedans the ILX and TLX. And if you can’t make it there in person, Acura has you covered: 24 cameras along the course will capture the NSX’s maiden voyage up the hill, to be turned into a 360-degree video. Like Nissan’s 360-interactive Le Mans lap, it won’t be the same as actually being there, but it’s better than nothing.
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