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IT HAS EIGHT EXHAUSTS!
I'll take three. Interesting article though - clearly the Bugatti factory isn't well ventilated enough, those exotic paint jobs have made them want to build the Galibier...
IT HAS EIGHT EXHAUSTS!
I'll take three. Interesting article though - clearly the Bugatti factory isn't well ventilated enough, those exotic paint jobs have made them want to build the Galibier...
Acura sold just a handful of NSXs last year – a literal handful. Only five examples of one of the coolest-looking, wonderful-driving cars on the road today. Five copies of the car that, when it was first introduced, put the fright into Ferrari and Porsche. Five copies of a car that, when he started to design the McLaren F1, Gordon Murray used as the benchmark for shifter feel. The car that, more than ten years on from its introduction, is still one of the closest things you can get to driving an F1 car on the road. Without actually driving an F1 car on the road.
The NSX is wonderful. You sit so low, behind such a panoramic windshield, that when you’re moving, it always feels like you’re going faster than you actually are, the world unravelling in front of you in glorious widescreen with motion blur that’s straight out of the movies. Roll down the windows, or pop the targa top and every tunnel becomes an opportunity to live out your Monaco Grand Prix fantasies, the snarling VTEC engine sound reverberating off the walls, the steering writhing like a race car’s in your hands, the wind whapping against your head so that you wonder if it’d be better if you had a helmet on. And a radio link to the pits. And a supermodel girlfriend.
Right.
So why, in a time when the streets seem to be littered with tarted-up 911s, Tubi-exhausted Ferraris, when the Yorkville Grand Prix seems as rich as it has ever been, is the NSX not going like gangbusters? The short answer is that, no matter how good it is, it’s still a Honda (sorry, Acura). And that in the realm of super-sports cars, no matter how good you are, that just isn’t going to cut it amongst the image-conscious poseurs who, let’s face it, populate this stratospheric market segment.
Worth a read, and probably the only introduction one would need in order to fall in love with the NSX.
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