HAHAHAHAHA!!!! This comment coming from someone with your exotic car experience puts you in the comedy hall of fame: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Pretty funny, I'll give you that. To be honest, I wish this thread would close as much as you guys...I waste enough time on NSX Prime as it is. Enjoyed reading the 400/412 threads tonight...I've always loved that car. Kinda like the BMW 850 - beautiful, classy as hell, but a nightmare to own.
I just responded in the same childish manor to a F chat post. Truth be told, I actually like 914's as well as all F cars. Just got carried away. LOL LOL Defending a car, any car is just lame. Finding the car that suits your needs is all that counts. See you on the road!
F-cars don't need defending... Sorry, with your puerile remarks it was felicitous. Unfortunately, ballyhooing non-f-cars on an f-car forum is in the same words "lame"
Post count is "serious business"!!! Keeping up with pap ain't easy.......only 10k posts to go by the end of today
Quite true. While I certainly don't have anything against an NSX(or "Accord body kit" as it's detractors refer to it), I believe some of it's advocates are taking great liberties with their alleged performance. The NSX is well built and has respectable handling. But, at best, it would have to be considered an underachiever in the performance(as measured at the track) department. Back in the day Corvettes and Porsches regularly handed them their a**. If the posters continue to refer to the NSX as a track star, I would have to recommend any number of juiced up Vipers,Porsches or Vettes as a faster alternative. If we are back to the need for a special week end car with wonderful sounds, reasonable performance and unmatched heritage/cache, then the Ferrari is tough to beat. The 348, while no paragon of reliability, is certainly in the same performance envelope as an early NSX. As many of us on this board can attest, Ferraris do quite well on the track. Their engines are built with premium materials and they feature well balanced chassis designs. I've driven and owned many exotics and sports cars and have never had the urge to make an NSX one of my "keepers". No offense intended, it just didn't feel that special. Better value? Depends what that means to you. As a jump in and go, check the oil once in a while "exotic", the NSX is a sensible choice. However, sensible has rarely entered into one of my Ferrari purchases. As a final aside, let's not the discount the marketplace. The NSX was always a tough sell and they were sold in very small numbers mainly due to lack of interest. It died with little fanfare. The Ferrari however, is always in strong demand with waiting lists to prove it.
In par with a 348? The NSX I had (bone stock) would keep up with a 355 without breaking a sweat. I have said it before and will say it again, the NSX in terms of performance at least, best Ferrari at its own gain (Mid engine, rwd, high rev) until the 355 came on the scene. It was only with the 360 that its performance was truly eclipsed. I agree on the notion of better value though...I like my 328 more then my NSX.
Hey Ernei I am test driving my first 348 in next few weeks. In the meantime i have decided winter is approaching so it might be best to just wait until late spring then narrow it down betwen the two choices. Off topic, Odd enough i really like the look of the 308 gt4 its small and looks nimbel.
HAHA!! That comment made me chuckle, in a good way. That almost captures the essence of why people buy a Ferrari instead of something else. It makes no financial sense, it is usually unreliable, but it has that special something where you just do not care about anything else but owning one. Kudos to Ferrari for making something like that possible, and engineering emotion into their cars.
Actually....winter is when you want to buy. It is when sellers have the toughest time selling their cars.
Looking at all of these posts, it made me remember, I think the NSX actually based it's style design off of a Ferrari prototype, the 408 integrale. If you look at pictures of both you'll see the very strong similarities.
The notion is the same as why people buy and love to drive cars from the 50s, etc. To a degree, also why you would buy a NSX over, say a Cayman/Carerra or Z06.
I think I can answer that one pretty easily. The first one is a no-brainer. Over a Z06 due to the Z06es: unattractive looks, poor build quality, nasty interior, poor reliability, questionable handling at the limit, I could go on and on.... Cayman/911: Nice cars, but a lot of people like the styling of the NSXes much better. Also, steel body, not as good feel of the road, not as reliable, etc.
Truthfully - the newer NSX owners (say, those over $60k) are also, to some extent buying a brand. Not the external brand of Ferrari, that other people will recognize, but the internal perception of value to themselves alone. Those are the people that *get it* about how the NSX was so revolutionary in its time, and *still is* a hell of a car (although not revolutionary by today's standards). I bought my 2005 NSX over: First, A Maserati spyder Second, A 997 (same league, but was never really interested in it) Third, M3 (ehh...whatever) And, to my point, besides the fact that I have loved the NSX as a landbreaking and classy car since 1991, I place value on having such a (formerly) tremendous car. It's like the Chicago Bulls bringing back Michael Jordan. You know he won't add any more to the team than any talented young player, but you'll still pay him $10MM/year because of his former glory. That's why I have a new Acura NSX. Handmade. All aluminum. Blueprinted engine. Equal performance to F355. Daily driveable (with a warranty even!). Timeless styling. Impeccable build quality. A CHAPTER in automotive history. And I have one of the very last ones.
Congratulations, you should be secure and happy with your decision. Most us agree the NSX is a great car, and a warranty is a big plus. Be careful though, I think the boys over in the Boxer and Vintage forums - where the panels were pounded out over wooden bucks - would whack you with their driving gloves for calling the Acura 'handmade'. I would guess it's more like AMG with its engines, Ferrari with its engines and interiors, etc. As you probably expected when you posted, a lot of us here are big Pininfarina fans and some would agree that the NSX is nicely proportioned (with its 308/328 front fenders it would have to be). Timeless? Not so sure. I think Acura let a fine, if overly linear, design stagnate over 14 years. You can tell Pininfarina has been in the business for decades, and Acura was dipping its toe into the waters of exotic design somewhat trepidatiously. It has all the right elements, but feels like a paint-by-numbers effort on a canvas smuggled in from Italy. Again, if you love your car, and you're happy with it, this isn't the group to validate your purchase: most of us, while appreciating the NSX as an extraordinary car from an ordinarily dull carmaker, would have made a different decision. Corvettes are kind of the same deal. Great cars, an even less imaginative carmaker (GM/Chevy), but ultimately the people who gravitate to Ferraris don't get the same kind of spark there either, even with a Z07 version set to make the Z06 the "slow one". When we try to explain what "that spark" is, the Corvette/Viper/NSX contingent pull out acceleration tables from back issues of Motor Trend, or a Ferrari parts price list, and tell us we're wrong. Consumer Reports and JD Power tell us to buy Japanese. So, to each his own. (I'm sure that by now the original poster has by now put 8000 miles on whatever he bought... probably an Escalade after all this.) Looks like a fun drive. More engine sounds and less soundtrack, please!
