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Pop-up headlights return with Top Gear's reborn NSX

Tom Ford explores the JAS Tensei, a first-generation NSX restomod with Pininfarina bodywork and a six-speed manual.

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New Honda NSX: ‘90s Supercar Icon Reborn! | 4K

Does every classic need a restomod? That is the question Tom Ford brings to Top Gear's look at the JAS Tensei, a reworking of the original Honda NSX rather than a new factory Honda model.

JAS, Honda's longtime motorsport partner, has teamed with Pininfarina on the project, which the description says has Honda's blessing. There is a pleasing connection here: the Italian design house also created the HP-X concept that helped inspire the first NSX. Ford's tour covers the bodywork, chassis upgrades, cabin details and a new six-speed manual gearbox, with room to consider why this isn't simply a stripped-out racer.

"New Honda NSX: '90s Supercar Icon Reborn! | 4K" has reached about 3.3 million views, comfortably the bigger draw of Top Gear's two uploads. In the comments, viewers keep returning to the pop-up headlights and asking whether this is the direction the second-generation NSX should have taken. Others debate the JAS badge and how much Honda identity a restomod should retain.

The other new release swaps supercar nostalgia for electric-family-car decisions. Ollie Kew's "New Rivian R2 vs BMW iX3! | 4K" compares the American company's smaller SUV with BMW's Neue Klasse entry, covering range, interiors and road manners. Both new videos are the channel's busiest draws right now; the earlier Audi A6 Allroad-Q7 comparison continues to bring in viewers behind them.

Subscribers held steady, while daily views are running above Top Gear's usual pace. Around the motoring neighborhood, Donut is also having a particularly busy viewing day, while MotorTrend is close to its normal rhythm. For Top Gear, the week's most animated conversation is about an old shape made new, right down to those headlights.

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What viewers say

It still has pop up headlights

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@AlfistiDuckieSee it on YouTube
Better than the original, or is the past better left alone?
@TopGearSee it on YouTube
The ony part it misses is the Honda badge. They should have used it, just as Singer puts a Porsche crest on their cars.
@ElberothSee it on YouTube

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This is how you re-design a classic, simply beutifull car.
@LieRoy86See it on YouTube
It does look like what Honda should have done for the second gen.
@GerthebearBrady.See it on YouTube
Pop-up headlights are so cool.
@VigneshBalasubramaniamSee it on YouTube
The designers deserve a pay raise!
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