New Acura ARX-06

Announcing the new Acura racer "ARX-06"! Le Mans to be released in 24 hours

Honda's luxury brand "Acura" unveiled the teaser image of "ARX-06", which will participate in the hybrid GTP category of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship from 2023.

The car name of ARX is an abbreviation of "Acura Racing Experimental", and it first appeared as "ARX-01" in 1991, just five years after Acura was established. In this latest model, "06", which means the 6th generation, is named, and it will participate in the top category GTP class centered on the new regulation "LMDh" in 2023.

In the teaser image, the details are hidden by camouflage similar to the background, but the front is equipped with a huge splitter that feeds to the opening, and the outer front bumper can also see a huge canard.

"The process used to create the exterior design for the Acura ARX-06 is exactly the same as how to create a new Acura passenger car," said Dave Marek, Executive Creative Director of Acura. The same world-class stylist who leads Acura's production car design created the first sketches and then narrowed them down to some potential designs. "

In addition, "The design continues to be refined throughout the testing and evaluation process until we come up with the final process to achieve our performance goals while maintaining the very important Acura styling clues, which is an exciting process. I did. "

In 2023, it will be equipped with a hybrid system and will start participating in LMDh vehicles, but participation in the highest peak "Hypercar" class of the Le Man's 24-hour race is drawing attention.