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Lexington, Ohio — “Yahooooo!” yelled Helio Castroneves as we hit 117 mph in the new Acura TLX Type S on the aback beeline of the Mid-Ohio chase course. Hard on the Brembo brakes, he crested dark About-face 9, again bedfast the throttle. “Love the grip!” he said of Acura’s signature, adult all-wheel-drive system.
Say accost to the ferocious, 355-horsepower Type S, the aboriginal achievement auto from Acura in over a decade. And say accost to the post-auto appearance apple of car debuts.
Rather than bare the long-awaited, 2021 TLX Type S at a changeless car appearance display, media associates like me got to acquaintance the barbarian from the right-hand seat. Beneath the baste of the one of the world’s arch chase jockeys. In advanced of bags of antagonism admirers at IMSA Weathertech’s anniversary Mid-Ohio speed-fest.
The Type S admission was added than a affair party. It was the circle of three 21st aeon auto trends: the about-face to empiric car premieres, the alliance of antagonism and assembly cars, and the affiliation of adopted automakers in America’s heartland.
Acura aftermost debuted a achievement car in 2015 at the Detroit Auto How. There were videos. A ablaze display. The NSX supercar on a turntable. Celebrity alien car almsman Jerry Seinfeld was in attendance.
This time, the alacrity was at the caster on a chase track.
Adding to the excitement, Castroneves — the champ of four Indy 500s, not to acknowledgment “Dancing with the Stars” — had never apprenticed the car.
Castroneves gunned the turbo V-6, and we were off, the
