Honda is officially stepping into the heritage game in a serious way. After teasing the idea earlier this year, the company has now revealed full details of its new global initiative: Honda Heritage Works Program. The goal is simple but powerful—support, preserve, and restore Honda’s most beloved performance cars, starting with the original NSX.
This isn’t nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. Honda is building a structured, factory-backed ecosystem for parts and restorations that owners have been asking for years.
Two Pillars: Parts and Restoration
Honda Heritage Works is built on two distinct but complementary arms: Honda Heritage Parts and Honda Restoration Service. Together, they cover everything from sourcing hard-to-find components to full, ground-up restorations.
Heritage Parts: Old Cars, Smarter Engineering
The Heritage Parts division will offer two types of components, both officially certified by Honda.
Genuine Heritage Compatible Parts
These are newly developed replacements for original parts that are no longer in production. What makes them interesting is that Honda isn’t blindly recreating the past. These parts will take advantage of modern materials, updated manufacturing methods, and decades of engineering learning.
In other words, if an original component had a known weakness, Honda plans to fix it properly this time—without compromising fit or authenticity.
Genuine Heritage Reproduction Parts
For purists, Honda will also produce exact reproductions using the same materials and production techniques as the original factory parts. These are meant for owners who want their cars to remain as period-correct as possible.
Crucially, Honda has confirmed that Heritage Parts will be available globally through existing Honda genuine parts distribution channels. That’s a major win for owners outside Japan, who are often left out of such programs.
Honda Restoration Service: Factory-Level Revival
On the restoration side, Honda is expanding what it already started with the NSX Refresh Plan. Going forward, this work will be branded as Honda Restoration Service and carried out at Honda’s Takanezawa facility in Tochigi, Japan.
Owners will be able to choose between two levels of restoration:
Basic Restoration
Focused on high-demand mechanical work, including engines, suspension systems, and performance-related components.
Total Restoration
This is the full experience. Honda will strip the car down to body-in-white for exterior restoration and repainting. Interiors will receive new upholstery, retrimmed dashboards, door panels, and restored controls tailored to the specific condition of each vehicle.
Applications Open Soon, NSX First
Honda will begin accepting applications from NSX owners in January, provided vehicles can be transported to Japan. Pricing hasn’t been announced, and no additional models have been confirmed ye,t but the intent is clear.
Honda isn’t just preserving history. It’s taking responsibility for it.
With Heritage Works, the company is positioning itself not just as a manufacturer of great cars, but as a long-term custodian of the machines that built its legacy.
