Back in February, we wrote a short story regarding a piece of heartening news: Honda president Takashi Ito had announced his company would be resurrecting our beloved NSX. However, our enthusiasm was blunted by the fact we’d heard the next-gen NSX would be based on a rotated Accord chassis and use a hybrid V6 powertrain—hardly the traditional recipe for sports car pleasure.

Well, good news—turns out we didn’t know everything Takashi said that day. Turns out he not only confirmed the NSX’s return, he also said it would be based on the HSV-010 race car pictured above. The HSV-010, which can be seen competing in the GT500 class of Japan’s SuperGT racing, is in turn based on the front-engined V10-powered NSX that was killed off back in 2008 due to the recession, so Takashi’s announcement can be seen as the return of that long-thought-dead car.

Sadly, the V10 engine reportedly didn’t come back with the car; the HSV-010 uses a 3.4 liter V8 making around 490 horsepower, and a related engine is supposedly a likely candidate for NSX duty. Beyond that, details are pretty hard to come by at this point, but considering much of the development work has been completed, we’re hoping Honda can pound it out and have it in our hands in the next year or two.

In the same statement, Takashi also said he hopes his company will market both “high-performance” and “affordable” sports cars in the future; according to Motor Trend, this may include the return of the Acura RSX coupe (which would be based on the 2012 Civic Si), an Accord-based C-segment sport coupe (perhaps a return of the Acura CL?), even the possibility that the aforementioned hybrid V6 sports car could make it to market alongside the NSX. Glad to hear Honda’s planning on barging back into the sports car game like SEAL Team Six. [via Motor Trend, Paultan.org]