[Neutrino]

Originally Posted by V8slayer

I thought an NSX is a 3.2 litre and it started as a 3.0.

And 280 bhp is an arbitary power cap set by the japanese government on all cars. You'll find the Japanese production versions of STI, Evo, GTR, Supra all have that as their quoted power output.

I'm not trying to say the NSX has as powerful an engine as the 360. But you can't deny Honda know how to make engines.

oh yeah my bad, it is a 3.2 and i know about the gentelmans agreement in japan about the 280 hp cap and i know car like the GTR break that easily however i never heard anything about the nsx being way above that


anyway my point was, since you asked why exotics don't put out as much hp/l, that it becomes much harder with bigger displacement and cylinders as in the case of the nsx plus as jay pinted out they care often more about the powerband than just peak numbers

of course this does not mean that the s2000 engine is unremarcable

Originally Posted by YukiHime

Hm...have you ever think of the RX-8...1.3L makes 238 hp, which is 183bhp/L...(Well, for 6MT only, the 4AT gets 197 hp from the pretty much alike 1.3L)

they are technically 2.6L engines and from a thermodynamic point of view they are quite inefficient