NSX in recent media

[fkong777]

Just picked up 2 magazine at news stand that had NSX in it.

Speed Magazine by Road & Track.
Tested showroom car for drifting. NSX came in last for driftability. :tongue: M3 won as best showroom stock drifter.

Sports Compact Car
Ultimate Street car Challenge. Comptech NSX was in it.. finished in mid pack. a Highly tuned XS engineering R34 skyline won.

Just thought I give it a mention.

 

[NetViper]

Just picked up 2 magazine at news stand that had NSX in it.

Speed Magazine by Road & Track.
Tested showroom car for drifting. NSX came in last for driftability. :tongue: M3 won as best showroom stock drifter.

Sports Compact Car
Ultimate Street car Challenge. Comptech NSX was in it.. finished in mid pack. a Highly tuned XS engineering R34 skyline won.

Just thought I give it a mention.

I was going to pick up SPEED, but if the NSX came last, I'll pass. What year was it?

As for SCC, that NSX was a custom CTSC. I was really dissapointed in the preformance, but they did say in the issue before that, that they did not hav time to give it a great tune.

 

[Ponyboy]

Indeed. I was a little disappointed in the SCC results as well. Though the lack of tune may be the culprit and I didn't expect the NSX to win, I really wanted to see this NSX compare better.

No wonder the NSX gets maligned as a suspect supercar. Yet, I have a sneaky suspicision that if the car had been a little more sorted the results would be a bit better. But who knows.

 

[NetViper]

Next time we need FX's car in there.

 

[khappucino]

Just picked up 2 magazine at news stand that had NSX in it.

Speed Magazine by Road & Track.
Tested showroom car for drifting. NSX came in last for driftability. :tongue: M3 won as best showroom stock drifter.

Sports Compact Car
Ultimate Street car Challenge. Comptech NSX was in it.. finished in mid pack. a Highly tuned XS engineering R34 skyline won.

Just thought I give it a mention.

theoretically speaking shouldnt the nsx be harder to drift (control) than the FR setups anyhow? :biggrin:

 

[SoCalDude]

Indeed. I was a little disappointed in the SCC results as well. Though the lack of tune may be the culprit and I didn't expect the NSX to win, I really wanted to see this NSX compare better.

No wonder the NSX gets maligned as a suspect supercar. Yet, I have a sneaky suspicision that if the car had been a little more sorted the results would be a bit better. But who knows.

A big part of the problem was the base price. It's was the most expensive new so it scored the minimum 10 points out of 110 in that category.

Also, we all know it's not going to win dyno or gross displays of power/acceleration contest.

It did win the driveability category. :smile:

 

[fkong777]

theoretically speaking shouldnt the nsx be harder to drift (control) than the FR setups anyhow? :biggrin:

The 2 pro drift driver said that the tail will come around too easily at off throttle. very small range of controllable throttle. also the problem with low steering angle and heavy steering make it really hard to control the counter steer.

 

[NSXDreamer2]

also the problem with low steering angle and heavy steering make it really hard to control the counter steer.

Totally agreed, but then I would just say that these 2 "pro" drifters are not that PRO, they are probably just an avg. good driver with track experience (like most of us here)..... It's not too difficult to understand what I'm saying, if anyone seeing Keichi (Drift King) and other Best Motoring drivers drifting the nsx Modified or stock/R/typeS/91 effortlessly as they finished their race/battle. I would say nsx is not a very difficult car to drift but it requires more to accomplish a drift ie: High Speed and precision, which in a typical drift course, it's hard to maintain the said velocity......

 

[fkong777]

Totally agreed, but then I would just say that these 2 "pro" drifters are not that PRO, they are probably just an avg. good driver with track experience (like most of us here)..... It's not too difficult to understand what I'm saying, if anyone seeing Keichi (Drift King) and other Best Motoring drivers drifting the nsx Modified or stock/R/typeS/91 effortlessly as they finished their race/battle. I would say nsx is not a very difficult car to drift but it requires more to accomplish a drift ie: High Speed and precision, which in a typical drift course, it's hard to maintain the said velocity......

the 2 pro driver was
Rhys Millen - Pontiac Sponsored driver - GTO - drift car
Alex Pheifer - RS-R usa Sponsored driver - S2000 turbo drift car.

Keiichi is the drift king... he is the exception to the rule.. :wink:

I did see the Drift-o-miss video of the twin NSX drift.. But those are not stock NSX's. They drift flat.. Probably have coilovers and sway bars installed.

 

[NSXDreamer2]

ok, then I take my first comment on the drivers back. If I remembered right, Rhys Millen had been in off road racing and hill climb for years right??

 

[paladin]

i didnt like the way some of the scoring for the scc article was.
for starters, giving a skyline, a brand new audi, and an evo with easily 100 grand in it more points for "value" because the msrp was lower than Kips decade old nsx. right.
Plus, i though it unfair that the the teg had an issue where the exhaust got caught up on some railroad tracks before the show car segment. That cause it to get a 0.
I'm sure had they judged it before the accident it would have recieved SOME points.
and finally, any car that blows up should get an automatic DQ.

 

[Hugh]

Tested showroom car for drifting. NSX came in last for driftability. :tongue: M3 won as best showroom stock drifter.

Considering that drifting is a ridiculous display of how not to drive a car and is best done with cars that handle like farm trucks it's actually no surprise that the NSX didn't do well and the overpriced Bavarian Manure Wagon had no problems at all going sideways.

An awesome display of drifting skills