Watch The 2022 Acura NSX Type S Set A New Long Beach Production Car Lap Record

The 2022 Acura NSX Type S has set the production car record at the Long Beach street circuit. Clocking a time of 1:32:784, it beat the previous best time by nearly three seconds, which coincidently, was set by a 2019 production-spec NSX.

The NSX Type S in question was fittingly painted in “Long Beach Blue Pearl,” a reformulation of one of the rarest colors offered on the first-generation NSX.

The Type S gets a 27 hp boost over the standard NSX, with the aluminum alloy twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6 engine pumping out 600 hp (447 kW / 608 PS) and 492 lb-ft (667 Nm) of torque. The boost in power is partly thanks to a pair of revised turbochargers from the NSX GT3 Evo racecar. The hybrid system is beefed up, too, with the battery getting a 10 percent bump in output and a 20 percent increase in range.

Watch: See How The New Acura NSX Type S Was Developed

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The NSX Type S also features handling upgrades thanks to increased downforce from a more aggressive diffuser, a slightly wider track width, and a carbon-fiber roof.

Although Acura has been coy with performance timings for the Type S, when it was announced, they stated the Type S was a whole 2 seconds faster than the 2021 NSX around Suzuka, which itself was 2 seconds quicker than the original 2018  second-gen NSX.

Behind the wheel of the Long Beach record-setting car was Ricky Taylor. Taylor is the driver of the No. 10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 for Wayne Taylor Racing and two-time and defending IMSA prototype series champion. “Long Beach is such a fun track, but definitely challenging with so little margin for error,” said Taylor, having completed his run.

If you were waiting for records to be broken before putting in an order for the Type S, the bad news is you’re already too late. All 300 of the $169,500 NSXs Type S offered to U.S. customers have been reserved, as the entire production run was sold out in just 24 hours.