Senna inspired supercar joins silver jubilee celebrations

It's not just the Silverstone Classic that will be celebrating its Silver Jubilee at this summer's special staging of the World's Biggest Classic Motor Racing Festival (24 - 26 July) - it is also 25 years since Honda launched its game-changing NSX.

Back in 1990, two-seater mid-engined sports cars typically were Italian, highly-tuned and temperamental. The NSX refined what a supercar could be - it was user-friendly, ultra-reliable and was cheap to service.

While the Honda badge may not quite have had the same lustre as those of Ferrari and Lamborghini, the Japanese company was running rings around both of its Italian rivals in F1 at that time.

Boasting such an incredible pedigree - and with Honda poised to launch an all-new NSX - the original has become a bona-fide classic, so it's no surprise that the NSX Club Britain is expecting a record turn-out of more than 60 models for its special Silver Jubilee track parade at the Silverstone Classic.

Indeed, the Saturday lunchtime cavalcades will be given over to Japanese sports cars. As well as the notable NSX celebrations, there will be 300 MX-5s celebrating the 25^th anniversary of the U.K. launch of the iconic Mazda two-seater plus parades marking important milestones for the Toyota MR2 Mk 1 (30 years), Nissan Skyline GTR and Nissan Sunny/Pulsar GTI-R (both 25 years).