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Heck of a car....holds it value.

Fast cars, No doubt about that.

I wouldn't kick one out my garage, thats for sure...

I wanted one until I drove one. Excellent car but way too tight for fat guys like me.

Very Nicely done video piece.

Those are monsters at the track, very capable.

One guy wanted to trade one for my 993, and I seriously considered it. Car drives well, looks awesome, amazing build quality. But I couldn't get past the notion that the car was a very nicely done supercar knockoff. Styling is blatantly Italian. The interior is a straight copy of a Porsche 928. The driving experience felt a bit antiseptic and Japanese. That and the fact that it has the same shift knob as a same vintage Honda Accord. ;)

In the end, I felt I would miss the character of my 993 and decided to pass. If you are in the mood for something different though, it would be fun to have one for a few months or a year.

I have recently driven one, and I was left feeling the same way as state above. Antiseptic describes it well. It is a way cool car, but I don't think I would fall in love with it. However, it would be nice to have a super car with honda reliability .

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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy (Post 5688988)

Very cool video, the Ayrton Senna voiceovers are a nice touch.

Great video. I've always had a soft spot for an NSX. With developmental input from Senna as well as serving as a significant influence to Gordon Murray in the development of his F1, what's not to like?

Had great fun lapping a couple NSXs with my well set up 944 Turbo at a DE event a couple years ago.

Gotta admit, I think the drivers were rookies, as by the end of the day I wasn't lapping them nearly as often.

Proof again...nothing can hang with a well set up 944!

I thought the NSX only had a low 200 hp engine in a relatively heavy package.

~3k lbs, ~260hp

Not bad in my book

260hp, but not a lot of torque throughout the range. It always needed a good V8, or forced induction, to be considered in the same league as the other 'super cars'.

I would have loved to see them fuse two S2000 motors into a V8 for a 4.0L 480hp monster

This is something I posted about 5 years ago. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/210441-showing-off-turbo-po.html#post1804654
I just got back from visiting the guy I bought my 9 eleben from, he had just bought an NSX and wanted to show it off. In turn I showed off my 9 eleben (that I bought from him) after I put the turbo on it.
He ended up selling the NSX less than a month later.

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Well, the NSX was purdy. bright, arrest-me red, looked brand new. Onliest problem was the tranny crunched into second gear, gotta pull the tranny and engine to fix, aint as easy or cheeep as with a 911.

He took me for a ride, I was impressed. Very nice, smooth, solid, and faster than I expected. Not as fast as my car, but no slug. Too refined and isolated, kinda like watching a race on TV vs. being in the race.
It felt like a fast Cadillac or Mercedes, the kind of car you could drive 100 mph all the way to Vegas without being tired.
Still, it had too many doo-dads. Do we really need a thing on the dash to tell us a door is open on a 2 door sportscar?
AC works, that was a nice touch, but head room was almost non-existent for someone my size. I had to move the seat all the way back and tilt it way back just to get my neck straight.

Then we took a ride in my car. I cruised around normal-like for a mile, He said, "it doesn't sound much different".

Then I hit the throttle at 3000 rpm in second as we entered a gradual right handed sweeper. The boost hit, the back squatted down but stayed planted, and the right front was climbing up in the air. I banged third and he was grabbing onto anything that he could reach. He said, "holy ***** this thing hits hard!"
I got on the binders and slowed down to a more comfortable pace and he started saying stuff about how we have to go show this car to this guy and that guy. My work there was done. Maybe I shoulda raised up the boost more. Did I mention that I raised it up to just under 9 psi before I left my house?

Before I left he told me that he always wanted an NSX but he's already thinking about selling it. He told me he rarely drives it and all he sees when he looks at it is a large payment sitting in the garage. He's put 1000 miles on it since he bought it.

All in all his car was very nice, but too refined to be a true sports car.
If he asked to trade i would consider it but just because his car is worth so much more on paper. My car is way more fun to drive even with it's squeaks and quirks.

R&T and other car mags raved when they first came out...

One other thing but them NSX's, I've heard they eat back tires really, really fast.

Something about having extra rear toe-in from the factory for stability makes the back tires go away after 5000 miles or something like that, and they are 'spensive tires.

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Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 5689350)

Super gummy bear yokohamas, IIRC.

I plan on getting one sometime in 2011 (~'97?). Will post pics if it won't result in a ban :)

As long as you aren't waiving its superiority in our faces at every turn you are fine. :D

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Originally Posted by Scuba Steve (Post 5689404)

I plan on getting one sometime in 2011 (~'97?). Will post pics if it won't result in a ban :)

Be careful...even in off topic, the "porsche only" birds will squawk...;)