RE: Honda NSX | Spotted

[bern]

biggbn said:

ate one too said:

You'd have to really, really, really want an NSX like this over a low miles manual Ferrari F430 (which would cost around £10k less).

I'd have that over a 430 any day of the week.

No contest for me either.

Asking price is worth it for the lower rear wishbones alone! Guy I bought my immaculate Integra DC2 off bought one exactly like this after selling me his Integra. I think it was his second. He did say he preferred driving the DC2 but I know which one I'd rather own!

Edit to add an old picture of them parked together. Bugs the life out of me that the bonnet is on the latch

Edited by bern on Monday 16th May 22:52

[Numpty with honours]

I had three of the first series and covered around 100,000 miles in total in them

They were utterly reliable - a c clip broke in the gearbox causing problems but covered under warranty and the power steering module went and that was it spread over three cars and over 100,000 miles

Sold the T bar manual with tan interior in red for £18,000 with 80,000 miles......

I have the hybrid model, its very good but it does not have the magic the earlier ones had, but remember compared to other cars 30 years ago it really was a game changer. The current offering is not a game changer, it's a car taking the lead part in the swan song of the ICE

[myhandle]

asci.white said:

Broken autos with nothing left to give perhaps.

I remember seeing a manual for something a bit under 25k but I don’t know how good the car was. I never saw one under 20.

[dobly]

I like mine



I must be out of touch with UK prices though...

Edited by dobly on Tuesday 17th May 06:00

[Candida]

napoleondynamite said:

How low did NSXs get at one point? 15 maybe?

Traded my 94 in in 2005 for £13k. But I’d put 90,000 on the 15,000 it came with and the gearbox rebuild I’d had done was about to blow, so no regrets

[Jon_S_Rally]

As soon as I read the first paragraph, I knew the author was wasting his time, as this thread was only ever going to be dominated by discussion about the price. It's a lot of money, but how many other manual NSXs are out there with 12k on the clocks? It's not like some Honda fanboy is going to buy it for a daily. It's the sort of car aimed at collectors. For people that still want to drive one, they're not going to be interested.

BigChiefmuffinAgain said:

Odd how it says it took 40 hours to build an NSX while you regularly see restomods which claim to have had 4000 man hours spent on restoration.....

Bolting a new together out of new, off-the-shelf parts is rather different to stripping an old car, restoring it, and rebuilding it with loads of bespoke parts.

[ImFeelingSaucy]

Lovely thing.

[Johnnytheboy]

Briefly I could have afforded one of these and did toy with it, but I wouldn't have treated it right.

I do think the pop-up early cars look so much better than the later ones too.

[Jenny Tailor]

The original is a thing of beauty.

[s m]

Johnnytheboy said:

Briefly I could have afforded one of these and did toy with it, but I wouldn't have treated it right.

I do think the pop-up early cars look so much better than the later ones too.

???
How would you have treated it?

[WhyOne]

Johnnytheboy said:

....

I do think the pop-up early cars look so much better than the later ones too.

I agree....when I went looking for a car in 2005 it had to be manual, well maintained and have pop-up lights. I managed all this in a Goldilocks pre-facelift NA2 car - 3.2 ltr engine, 6 speed gearbox, facelift interior (perforated rather than ruffled leather), updated ABS etc.

I believe that the closed lights were a response to US pedestrian safety legislation.

[British Beef]

Candida said:

napoleondynamite said:

How low did NSXs get at one point? 15 maybe?

Traded my 94 in in 2005 for £13k. But I’d put 90,000 on the 15,000 it came with and the gearbox rebuild I’d had done was about to blow, so no regrets

I think because they were so usable and reliable, most of them do have higher mileages, which I guess explains why the lower mileage ones are valued si highly as they are super rare. Especially compared to most Ferraris, or lamborghinis, which seem to rarely be used as dailys and are much more commonly available with super low mileage

[wpa1975]

I do like these but not at that money, fully respect it is low mileage etc but that price is madness.

[NigelCayless]

I'm clearly in the minority here but I would take a new NSX over this. I've never liked the look - the rear end is too long to my eyes.

[MC Bodge]

Johnnytheboy said:

Briefly I could have afforded one of these and did toy with it, but I wouldn't have treated it right.

Using it as a plasterer's van and for tip runs?

[Om]

£145k! That's almost one and a half Ford Escorts, what are they thinking?

[Slippydiff]

napoleondynamite said:

How low did NSXs get at one point? 15 maybe? Not in that condition perhaps but it’s definitely a car that demonstrates how much the market for interesting stuff has appreciated.
Price aside, that’s absolutely stunning. Much want.

Or that we’re in the mother of all asset bubbles, where dealers are greedy and buyers have let greed overcome fear (and any sense of reality) ...

[s m]

MC Bodge said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Briefly I could have afforded one of these and did toy with it, but I wouldn't have treated it right.

Using it as a plasterer's van and for tip runs?

Driving to the shops and going to work in it?

[Earl of Petrol]

WhyOne said:

Nice to see Pistonheads appreciating the NSX.(and that is a stunning example)...mine was kindly picked as a 'favourite' in the Goodwood MM car park a few weeks ago;

Edited by WhyOne on Monday 16th May 17:45

That’s lovely, I prefer yours to the one in the ad.

[Johnnytheboy]

s m said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Briefly I could have afforded one of these and did toy with it, but I wouldn't have treated it right.

I do think the pop-up early cars look so much better than the later ones too.

???
How would you have treated it?

I didn't have a big enough property at the time so it may have lived outside, and it would have been my only (weekend) car, so would have got a lot of miles on it.

If I bought one now it would be a third car, kept in a garage, but now I can't afford a decent one, and tbh I wonder if I'd be underwhelmed by the performance in 2022?

(Yes I know that's not what it's about)