Honda Sports Car Spied, Looks Like a Baby NSX (Spoiler Alert: It Isn't)

• This Honda-badged sports car was spied.

• Proportions suggest a mid-mounted engine (or electric motor).

• Could it be a smaller successor to the Acura NSX?

UPDATE 9/12/22: We were informed by many readers that the car our bleary-eyed staffer spotted is a design study from a few years ago. Sometimes, the thrill of discovery turns out to be not so thrilling after all. But it did give us the opportunity to hear from one reader, Sebastien Clarke, who wrote: "I worked on the Honda Sport in 2012 at the Pasadena Honda advanced studio. I modeled the scale model with Christopher Dickhoff. Brian Oh (now at Canoo) was the designer under the studio direction of Jason Wilbur. The scale model was then scaled up directly to produce a non-running prototype. This project was great and would have been great for Honda. Low cost, lightweight, simple proven technology, analog settings. It was meant as a replacement for the S2000, not the NSX. Hope this helped!" (It did.)