Honda NSX-R.

EVO rags can be found at your local B&N or Borders bookstores. Nice article... who says Honda is lacking sports cars.

 

i saw a best motoring vid of the nsxr and that fuggin thing OWNED!!!

 

Honda is lacking sport carts in the U.S.

5 years later, I can foresee most of the Hondas are fuel-cell powered 100mpg cars.


[Modified by nEoMuGen, 6:34 PM 12/31/2002]

 

i agree. but ACURA is a different story

 

The December 2002 issue of EVO (with the 50 secksiest cars) is definitely worth buying IMO

 

acura nsx sales have been laggin like a **** and they still wont import the nsx-r . . .. .

that thing looked as sexy as it handled

 

NSX R -

 

Makes perfect sense to me.

Would you spend money to bring over a product that people don't want?

 

in the future, instead of the aluminum shell they use, if they switched to a steel frame, they actually may be able to reduce the ridiculous price.

 

But if Honda switched to a steel shell then it pretty much defeats the purpose of the NSX. Aluminum is twice as strong has steel, yet weighs the same.

 

No....aluminum is lighter than steel and its strength is dependent on which composites are added. Aluminum composites can be made as strong as steel but then again steel can be made stronger than any type of composite aluminum.

 

NSX is so nice, but i think they cost too much.

 

Why the ? Just because you can't afford it doesn't make it pricey. I personally think a Rolls Royce is a total waste of money when you can buy a S Class for 1/3 of the price.

The new NSX-R is faster than a Modena on the track and it's basic structure is more than a decade old. $90,000 race car for the street?

 

Exactly! Don't forget the Honda reliabilty. You can easily daily drive an NSX like it was an Accord or Integra and not have to worry about $15,000 service bill every 3000 miles!

If I had some extra money, I would pick up an early model low milage NSX. They can be had for $30k and put the NSX-R body panels on it with some fresh paint.

 

So true...!!

 

I agree. But it seems as though the average performance car buyer is more interested in how fast the car can go in a straight line rather than reliability.

 

I blame the rednecks for this brainwashing.

 

hey guys...... get the magazine, its an awesome read!
EVO is the top car publication in my books!, they judge a car for what its worth not just straightline speed! in fact most of their journos prefer handling to outright acceleration.

anyways the NSX-R came 1st......
last years winner was the Zonda C12S, $1m of pure perfection!

 

EVO is one of my favorite mags. I have such a hard time finding it here and usually get it whenever I go to Europe. My girlfriend just paid the money and got me a subscription for Christmas.

The Jan 2002 issue (#39) had a buyers guide for the Integra Type R in which they said the Type R was "One of the best driver's car they know." Its a good article and you can order the issue from their back issue section.

 

Wrong. In the U.S., Acura NSX sales for the first eleven months of 2002 are up 36 percent over 2001. They've already sold more in eleven months than in any full year since 1999. I've heard that sales in Japan are up an even greater percentage but I don't know the exact number.

Not surprising. In 1999, they imported the Zanardi edition NSX (similar to the NSX Type S then available in Japan), and overall NSX sales that year declined by 21 percent.

 

You can grab the article from itrsport.com here:

http://www.itrsport.com/reviewArticl...ers_guide.html

 

To some degree. But I think the main reason the NSX is not a run away sales success is simply that the kind of person who has $90K to toss at a car will want to buy something that will stroke his ego more then anything else. So he will get a 911 or the like.

 

I second this!!! EVO is quickly becoming my FAVORITE mag...
especially since SCC and all the other US rags have completely gone down the tubes... stoopid ricer worshipping crap.

Nick
(who has cancelled all his subscriptions except for C&D)

 

So true. But the real enthusiast will be the one who actually buy's the NSX. The one's buying the porsche and ferarri's and so forth are the people that want prestige and image to go with their hobby. Now if I was rich you would see me with an nsx, gt2, m3 convertible for those nice sunny days and a beater car... LOL:-D.

Anywho... I'm gonna grab that magazine

 

Another reason is that too many people have the impression that they have to spend $90K to buy one new, when they can be had for $75K (or less!) from many dealers. Acura should have set the MSRP in the upper seventies and charged the dealers the same dealer cost that they're charging now.