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is a far cry from A 573HP Acura Probably the single most damning statement I've read about the NSX so far comes from R&T. Quote:
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Folks gotta think more outside the box with modern cars and their respective banner holding halo cars!!! They should be wild, innovative and cool!
The NSX looks fantastic, it's priced just right and I want one more than any archaic Viper, Z06, R8, AMG-GT, GranTurismo, 570S, Vantage, F-Type or GTR. It'd be a tough choice between this and the BMW i8 for garage-cool queen multi-motor supercar. Hopefully we'll look back in 25 years at it and it earns a similar iconic status like its predecessor. $845,000 $1,350,000 $1,416,000 Only $150,000? Yes please! Hopefully this will encourage FT-1 development to retail. |
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And sorry, but there's nothing archaic about the Viper, R8, AMG GT or 570S. You don't get bonus points for making something needlessly complicated. Those fancy motors up front? They add a lot of weight, absolutely kill all steering feel/feedback, and above 124 mph they're in-active, i.e. dead weight. For my money, I'd rather have a 3000-3300 lb supercar with a reliable engine and a body constructed of lightweight materials. And that's it. It doesn't matter what kind of trickery you put in place, at the end of the day you're left with a heavy ass car when you dump electric motors and batteries into it. (I level the same criticism at the 918 as well - I'd rather have a CGT). $20 says the 570S beats the NSX around most road courses. It's a valid comparison too, since their MSRPs will likely be within $10k of one another.
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Come on - we are talking about a six figure status toy here. The sports-car purity argument can only go up to six figures anyway: 370z, Cayman, 4C, Corvette, GT350 - the client expectation is, rightfully, different from thereon out for any volume (relative) vehicle from any major brand. Of course you get bonus points for trying something different! I'll recognize Acura for trying and if I could vote (with my wallet), just like 911 with their assbackwards engine placement AND STICKING WITH IT! HAHAH Add more weight if that means more creative thinking, what difference will another 200 lbs make if the engineering can make sense of it. I won't care much what the steering feel is like at 124 mph - I'll be too busy parking, doing hard launches and 60-120 rolls on the freeway. If I'm dropping the coin to lease a $175,000 leisure car, and I'm a car guy, I'm at the point where I've got a toy-hauler and a race car (or better yet a formula toy!) that I can obsess about weight over. If I got serious coin there's plenty of serious track-stars to custom order from manufactures & outfits. Deep six figures and beyond. I want a 'neat' supercar toy to discuss with my cohorts over coffee on Saturday mornings. In my head it's NSX or i8 for my technocrat garage queen spot, right next to my gutted/caged S2K Wolf - I know you're a track-junkie-type, so I'm poking a little fun at ya but it's almost ironic that this car would get flak on a Twins forum... It's the anti-conformity that makes this car (and the twins ) so cool and ought to be celebrated to that extent. Maybe it doesn't pan out financially, maybe it's a terrible car, maybe it's the slowest of all the super cars and it just gets worse and worse over the years. But like the i8, it is objectively undeniably different for its price point and any sort of innovation should be encouraged. I'd rather have a smorgasbord of unique options than the cookie-cutter one-up-man-ship on the same formula that we've had over the past decade. Super cars are beginning to feel like contemporary pop music |
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I give manufacturers bonus points for doing something against the grain when the product turns out to be great. When the product turns out to be a heavy, pointlessly complicated, isolated appliance "sports car" I think "Well that's why others don't do that.... idiots." I guess this is the one thread we at least won't be branded as honda fanboys haha
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I never understood why anyone was a fan of the NSX. Unlike the Civics, the NSX under performed in every single category and was just not a good sports car. Of course the next one if it is ever actually produced will do the same thing. Honda doesn't care about enthusiasts, they lucked into them the last time around then deliberately turned their backs from them by destroying their cars.
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Not all philosophies need to be the same. I, too, love the philosophy that built the twins and 911's and the Veyron and the Model S and etc. etc. etc. Let the car be on its own merit - that it is among the first in the mainstream to try a multi-motor approach at a reasonable price. For the technocrats, who also like to drive (I like how you framed that into mutually exclusive groups ), this is an interesting car. Follow the middle path - accept it for what it is and don't disparage it for what it isn't. It isn't taking the fun of driving away from you, it isn't preventing you from enjoying driving. Or hate on it, who cares... Race track jingoism.. what is this, a miata forum? |
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I just hope its steering isn't overly light like so many luxury cars these days.
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However, in the case of the NSX what is this? It's entire design philosophy is against what the details tell us. It's heavy, it has excessive amounts of electronics, and a really poor performance mark for it's price. This would be all fine if it were marketed and designed as a premium luxury vehicle, but it's not. It's marketed and designed as a sports car but built like a luxury. What real reason would you want this as a car enthusiast besides to "show off", or just to have the "brand new toy" as @Dave-ROR said, because those two reasons are pretty sad reasons... |
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The same reason why people love the NSX, it's a perfect storm of select elements that may not objectively win a comparison but subjectively tick the boxes of a niche subset of enthusiasts. Reliable, nimble power:weight, mid-engined, rewarding handling dynamics, quality suspension, and the subjective bits like sound and looks, it really had it's own place in the market back in the 90's when Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and Mitsubishi were putting out front engined cars that shared components with the rest of their product line many used for years before and decades later they were a touch pedestrian while the NSX was a European super car that was from the ground up Japanese. Edmunds had one as a long term test car a few years ago and it really struck me that even today the performance holds up without many sacrifices. I love the suspension walkaround, the forged aluminum wishbones are a thing of beauty. http://www.edmunds.com/acura/nsx/199...erm-road-test/ http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/t...alkaround.html |
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The Conundrum...
So the point of a super car is to have super fun. Now they're getting the hybrid treatment and blah blah blah...
And now I'm confused. Am I buying a super car for super fun or am I buying a daily driver?... Because let's be honest, a super car is not a daily driver. And if I can afford a super car, I don't necessarily care about saving fuel from an economic stand point (aka, I can afford gasoline) but if I do really care about no burning fuel I'm probably buying the P85D anyway. So let's just say for the sake of argument that I'm spending 100k or so and I need to save the earth when not in "fun" mode yet I need my "fun mode" to be CRAZY fun. I think I'd rather divide and conquer in this case and get one of these: And one of these: And be done with it.
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My previous post may be addressing the whole thing wrong.
I think about why I like the NA1 (original NSX) so damn much and the only real answer is... I just do. Maybe that's all that matters.
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There will be people who love the new NSX. Good for them (seriously). That doesn't mean I can't hate it for what it stands for. People put body kits on their cars, wax them constantly, etc. I think that's stupid too but if it makes the owners happy that's fine. It's still stupid though IMO. Again, nothing wrong with opinions. It's not ignorance though.
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