RE: Time for Tea? Why the Honda NSX is brilliant...

RE: Time for Tea? Why the Honda NSX is brilliant...

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BanzaiMan

157 posts

146 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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benzito said:
i reckon it would struggle to keep up even with everyday sports cars like old M3's/s4's
It's approx equal to E46 M3

hothatches

29 posts

146 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Mother of God, that new NSX is one good looking car.

Watch the video of Senna driving the original and look how early he gets on the power coming out of bends, balancing it on the edge with the throttle. It's a beautiful thing.

jbi

12,668 posts

203 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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There is a distinct lack of V8 in this thread frown

ktm301p

746 posts

188 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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F1GTRUeno said:
I love the NSX but that video is really poor.

Strange editing decisions, strange shots and no real reasoning for why things are ordered the way they are.

Odd.
+1 90% of that video was rubbish to watch IMO :S

Scho

2,479 posts

202 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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F1GTRUeno said:
I love the NSX but that video is really poor.

Strange editing decisions, strange shots and no real reasoning for why things are ordered the way they are.

Odd.
Agreed. Nothing to get into. 3 seconds of this. The 4 seconds of slow mo slide. Then 4 seconds of the engine bay.

ZZZZ.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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BanzaiMan said:
benzito said:
i reckon it would struggle to keep up even with everyday sports cars like old M3's/s4's
It's approx equal to E46 M3
I've driven both and the M3 certainly felt quicker than the NSX. Although the NSX was a 1992 car and I gather the later ones had a few more ponies.

dotty

681 posts

197 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Great cars, had a P ride in an NA2 NSX -R! epic car, will post some vids after work.

Alfanatic

9,339 posts

218 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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ZesPak said:
Is it me or does this really gives Lambo a run for it's money in the looks department? lick

Isn't that Mazda's current corporate face?

LuS1fer

41,085 posts

244 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Yet even now the NSX hasn't attained the status of even the crap Ferraris of the 80s even though it was undoubtedly the better car. Not even a change of badge to Acura could alter that. In making it suitable for being a daily driver, they rather took away the challenge of an exotic.

Not keen on the new one either although with Ferrari and Lambo going more tech, I would imagine this time round, they may enjoy more success at making a supercar.

will261058

1,115 posts

191 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Saw an NSX on the M8 in Glasgow about 3 weeks ago. Thats the first one I have seen for years.

mat205125

17,790 posts

212 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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LuS1fer said:
Yet even now the NSX hasn't attained the status of even the crap Ferraris of the 80s even though it was undoubtedly the better car. Not even a change of badge to Acura could alter that. In making it suitable for being a daily driver, they rather took away the challenge of an exotic.

Not keen on the new one either although with Ferrari and Lambo going more tech, I would imagine this time round, they may enjoy more success at making a supercar.
NSX and Acura means only one thing to me biggrin


havoc

29,925 posts

234 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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St John Smythe said:
I've driven both and the M3 certainly felt quicker than the NSX. Although the NSX was a 1992 car and I gather the later ones had a few more ponies.
Pre-94 cars had odd (long) 1st and 2nd gears. I've had a play with an M3 cab and there was nothing in it.

LuS1fer - for some that's part of the appeal - with the NSX there's no ego, no wayward handling that you have to drive around, no poor driving position or poor visibility to suffer, no wondering what's going to pop next (well...not as much). It was supercar redux, at the time. Still is, although the power ways have rather overtaken it.

If you equate that with 'lack of character' then you've probably never driven one and you're probably image-led. Gordon Murray, Roman Atkinson and many others suffer no such delusions...are 100RON petrolheads such as these misguided? Or are you blinkered by the badge marketing from Modena and Stuttgart?

burger81

249 posts

155 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Some guy had a yellow NSX in our town, and he was going round a corner too fast (I assume as it was in a 30mph area) and stuffed it straight through a barrier into the River Ouse, such a waste!


Japcarnut

189 posts

176 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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THIS is what that video should have been like... Never get tired of watching this, although a bit more Vtec sound wouldn't go amiss... (just beautiful)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53c6o_cNPEo

Japcarnut

189 posts

176 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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forgot to mention the Senna soundbites also...

lowndes

807 posts

213 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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benzito said:
I think the NSX has always looked fabulous (supercar looks) and I'm sure it handles really well. However it was underpowered IMO and this has always surprised me. Nevermind supercar acceleration - i reckon it would struggle to keep up even with everyday sports cars like old M3's/s4's
I think it true to say the NSX chassis could handle more power, which is not quite the same as saying it is underpowered. Driven in a manner appropriate for the road conditions and with respect for other road users, I find my NA2 6 speed NSX (280+bhp) just as engaging as the 997turbo S ( 535bhp) and the 996GT3 Mk2 (381bhp). Obviously when it comes to the pure acceleration needed when overtaking the turbo S is hard to match, but generally speaking I rarely find myself wishing the NSX had more power. What I do notice is the precision of the controls, the balance of the car and the addictive sound track. And just about everyone who drives it says how delightful it is.

Johnboy Mac

2,666 posts

177 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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lowndes said:
I think it true to say the NSX chassis could handle more power, which is not quite the same as saying it is underpowered. Driven in a manner appropriate for the road conditions and with respect for other road users, I find my NA2 6 speed NSX (280+bhp) just as engaging as the 997turbo S ( 535bhp) and the 996GT3 Mk2 (381bhp). Obviously when it comes to the pure acceleration needed when overtaking the turbo S is hard to match, but generally speaking I rarely find myself wishing the NSX had more power. What I do notice is the precision of the controls, the balance of the car and the addictive sound track. And just about everyone who drives it says how delightful it is.
An excellent contribution to the thread.

newdogg06

266 posts

188 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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We sold the last UK registered NSX to a chap who put it straight in the garage. Still there as far as we know. Initially he was hiding it from the wife but it's probably his nest-egg.

I have a rear wheel and almost slick tyre from a certain Mr Button's company NSX which I acquired back in 2004 when he was driving for BAR. Makes a great patio drinks table!

g00chy

40 posts

146 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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love the NSX can only imagine what they sound like in the flesh after taking the bruv in laws integra r out and it pulling through the range then surging round to mystical territory of 9500 rpm!

but, is it me i will watch that video again but im sure the new one flashes up diesel/electric at one point.
now i thought that was only for the 0753 express from norwich to london
if they are that will destroy the wonderful sound of high revving hondas

edit: panic over it said DIRECT injected lol pphhewwwww that was worrying for a minute!!

Edited by g00chy on Tuesday 7th February 10:36

DanDC5

18,745 posts

166 months

Tuesday 7th February 2012
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mat205125 said:
NSX and Acura means only one thing to me biggrin

That just makes it the coolest supercar ever.