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Yep. For the August 1997 issue of Sport Auto, they took a pre-facelift NSX to Mercedes-Benz's non-moving floor wind tunnel in Germany and measured a lift of 8 kg at 200 km/h over the front axle and 14 kg over the rear axle. Given a frontal area of 1.78 m2, the measured drag coefficient was 0.33.For the August 2002 issue, Sport Auto took a 2002 NSX-R to the same wind tunnel. They measured 33 kg of downforce over the front axle at 200 km/h, 5 kg of downforce over the rear axle, and a drag coefficient of 0.34.The figures measured for both cars vary a bit from what Honda claimed but that may have to do with the fixed floor of that Mercedes wind tunnel.
Yep. For the August 1997 issue of Sport Auto, they took a pre-facelift NSX to Mercedes-Benz's non-moving floor wind tunnel in Germany and measured a lift of 8 kg at 200 km/h over the front axle and 14 kg over the rear axle. Given a frontal area of 1.78 m2, the measured drag coefficient was 0.33.
For the August 2002 issue, Sport Auto took a 2002 NSX-R to the same wind tunnel. They measured 33 kg of downforce over the front axle at 200 km/h, 5 kg of downforce over the rear axle, and a drag coefficient of 0.34.
The figures measured for both cars vary a bit from what Honda claimed but that may have to do with the fixed floor of that Mercedes wind tunnel.
