Some really good quality postings and observations. Huge thanks for articulating what you mean with images!
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By the way, I'm a fan of the original nsx but never an owner. It was way out of my price range as a kid and it didn't help that I wasn't able to drive when it came out.
i don't see the car as having a huge following in a way that people contemplate its heritage and insist on the new one sharing dna. Does it have years of racing experience and multiple evolutions that I'm not aware of? Take the gt-r and you can easily plot its dna evolving over many iterations. The gtr moniker is therefore worth honouring.
i don't feel that way about the nsx. This is only the second model to have the name so the bloodline is not exactly an established tradition to me, that warrants common design features.
I actually can't see similarities side by side and am not fainting at the design of what I do see. It looks very nice but not in a way that makes me ache to buy it.
i do think there's a similarity of being a giant killer on a budget but I think most people are missing the comparison. Many are saying it's almost it's almost in the same price range as the cars it's supposed to compare to. I completely disagree and think this is what makes it identical to the original nsx and therefore worthy of the name (allowing that the name has some meaning).
The only rivals for this nsx are sports cars that take a performance advantage from a hybrid drivetrain. I count only three of those and all are around £1m. That's enough for me to be hugely interested.
On a separate note, I'm really hoping the ti conrods make it in to nsx 2.0.
