The next NSX

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Casio
The NSX had 276HP, or not much more then an Astra VXR, or a Standard V6 Commodore. And probably less then STi's or EVO's at the time, probably no faster either. Yet cost almost 6 times the price of either. I just don't see why everyone loves it so much.
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Because even though everyone including Nissan was running more power than what was being said, Honda was out showing the NSX can beat a Ferrari, Lamborghini or Porsche with only 276 horses. Nissan though, was pushing more than 290 horses with their GTR R34s despite what the factory label might have said.
 
Casio
The NSX had 276HP, or not much more then an Astra VXR, or a Standard V6 Commodore. And probably less then STi's or EVO's at the time, probably no faster either. Yet cost almost 6 times the price of either. I just don't see why everyone loves it so much.
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Well in 1990 276 hp was a lot, in 2002 it wasn't anymore ( allthough I'm not even sure if the first one already had that much power, maybe only 250 hp, at least I think that I remember a 250hp version !? ). But as
said before by others, the NSX was a real track car with awesome performance despite its lack of raw power. Still I agree, that it was overpriced. Imo it should have cost no more than a R34 Skyline / Supra / Rx-7 and not much more than a STI/Evo... maybe sth around 50k dollar.

As for the Celica, that's another story. All I said is, that personally I don't like the actual Celica both from the performance aspect and from the appearance aspect. A AWD 280 hp Celica would be nice, wouldn't it ? Design of course is personal taste, so I don't want to argue about that. The 1,8 litre machine however is weak and didn't get good reviews in German car magazines. The Honda Civic Typr R for example has only 8 hp more, but that engine is classes above the Toyota engine, perfomancewise at least...
 
Max_DC
But as
said before by others, the NSX was a real track car with awesome performance despite its lack of raw power. Still I agree, that it was overpriced. Imo it should have cost no more than a R34 Skyline / Supra / Rx-7 and not much more than a STI/Evo... maybe sth around 50k dollar.
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From memory, in Australia the last model was about $250,000. For the same price I could buy a Porsche Carrera S, many AMG Mercs, BMW M5, Audi RS6. If it's a primarily track car I could buy 2 Lotus Exige S's. Lets remember it still had indicator stalks and controls from a Honda Civic so it wasn't exactly prestigious.

So it was too expensive, slow compared to the competition, not prestigious, you're not buying a badge, and in my opinion not particularly good looking. I can't understand people and this car.
 
It was significantly more expensive in Australia than pretty much everywhere else though. The NSX over here was still over priced imo, but ti was a lot cheaper than that.
 
Casio
From memory, in Australia the last model was about $250,000. For the same price I could buy a Porsche Carrera S, many AMG Mercs, BMW M5, Audi RS6. If it's a primarily track car I could buy 2 Lotus Exige S's. Lets remember it still had indicator stalks and controls from a Honda Civic so it wasn't exactly prestigious.

So it was too expensive, slow compared to the competition, not prestigious, you're not buying a badge, and in my opinion not particularly good looking. I can't understand people and this car.
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The NSX-R was not slow to the competition in anyway unless you just wanted to race for a mile in a straight line. The car is like the M3 in everyway nearly. It's almost under-par in horsepower compared to others yet, makes up for power in remarkable suspension and braking technology.

The power of the car lies in its mechanics, not the 280 horses of the V6.
 
Casio
The NSX had 276HP, or not much more then an Astra VXR, or a Standard V6 Commodore. And probably less then STi's or EVO's at the time, probably no faster either. Yet cost almost 6 times the price of either. I just don't see why everyone loves it so much.
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When the NSX was introduced, the porsche 911 had less than 250hp and the M3 less than 240hp. Even the Ferrari 348 had only 300hp and the 911 Turbo had 320hp. At 276-290, the NSX was competitive in power even though it was the handling and braking that was the car's real strengths. At the time, Evos and sti didnt exist.
 
And incredibly enough, even when it was stupidly down on power it managed to outperform cars that it simply should not have been able to outperform, particularly the NSX-R.
 
live4speed
It was significantly more expensive in Australia than pretty much everywhere else though. The NSX over here was still over priced imo, but ti was a lot cheaper than that.
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By the time the NSX was out the door in America, you would have been hard-pressed to find one for less than $100K USD. Certainly they did make them for less, but considered that every single one came fully-optioned (for the most part), they weren't coming cheap. Oddly enough, I've seen used ones go for pretty cheap here in America. A guy was selling a used '98 or '99 NSX with hardly any miles on it for about $28K, which didn't seem all too bad to me, however it isn't like I was going to buy it.

The NSX, at least for me, will always be remembered as the car that changed the world, and then the world changed without the NSX. It was a great car for so many years, but by the time the F355/360, C5, 996, and GTS debuted, the NSX was in hot water, and yet kept on fighting. It was an amazingly well-engineered car that didn't need to change, but it was the fact that it didn't that probably kept a lot of attention away from it. In America, it is the next pretty face that makes magazine covers, and it is astronomical horsepower and performance figures that stay in people's minds. Unfortunately, most of the competition had caught up or surpassed it by the beginning of the late '90s, and by the time that the NSX was officially on it's way out, it only received praise and tribute from a few editors in columns limited to a few pages in magazines here and there.

As Gen. MacArthur said, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." That kinda sums up the NSX in a way I suppose.
 

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