Why don't Japanese sports cars have more street cred compared to European brands?

Interesting Hemmings tech article about the original AP-1 S2000:

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2021/10/19/how-the-2000-03-honda-s2000s-high-revving-engine-punched-above-its-weight?refer=news&utm_source=edaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-10-19
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This thread is more and more dated as first generation NSX climb deeper into 6 figures and R34 are well over 200,000 with no end in sight.

 

And regular LFAs are over $700K as of October 2021

 

Thanks for posting this I missed this article somehow, although I did experience Vtec in my red AP-1 last night