I daily drive my NSX.
Some owners have garage queens.
Some race their cars.
For those people who have garage queens - thank-you, I'll buy your car someday when I wear mine out (a long time from now) so take good care of it! (your NSX is a great long term investment).
For people who race their cars - on NSX Prime you can learn a lot about how to "improve" the NSX. On the race track a NSX can benefit from larger brakes, more horsepower, stickier tires and suspension upgrades. It's economical ($5,000 - $20,000) to modify our cars, some of which are 25 years old (like mine), to win against the best race cars made today costing tens, or even hundreds of thousands dollars more.
I argue you can make the NSX a better race car, but not a better road car.
My NSX is a road car, the best I've ever owned. It's responsive, has more than enough performance for the road, great styling and it's fun to drive. A NSX is made from materials that will last a VERY long time with reasonable care and the car is reliable. For me it's the perfect road car. I read about minor issues with window regulators, snap rings and head gasket failures (easily avoided - just change your engine coolant with every new timing belt) and how big of a deal all this is.
These things are minor and easily fixed for a couple of thousand dollars (max) when caught early.
When done, you have one of the best-engineered road cars ever built, without faults, and someday if you want to race your NSX you can put some more money into it and achieve world-class performance, 25 years after it was designed.
The NSX is one of the most under-appreciated cars in the world and I'm thrilled to have one in my garage.
It's time to appreciate the NSX for what it is - a finely crafted work of automotive engineering art.
As of today I have 196,285 km on mine.
Some owners have garage queens.
Some race their cars.
For those people who have garage queens - thank-you, I'll buy your car someday when I wear mine out (a long time from now) so take good care of it! (your NSX is a great long term investment).
For people who race their cars - on NSX Prime you can learn a lot about how to "improve" the NSX. On the race track a NSX can benefit from larger brakes, more horsepower, stickier tires and suspension upgrades. It's economical ($5,000 - $20,000) to modify our cars, some of which are 25 years old (like mine), to win against the best race cars made today costing tens, or even hundreds of thousands dollars more.
I argue you can make the NSX a better race car, but not a better road car.
My NSX is a road car, the best I've ever owned. It's responsive, has more than enough performance for the road, great styling and it's fun to drive. A NSX is made from materials that will last a VERY long time with reasonable care and the car is reliable. For me it's the perfect road car. I read about minor issues with window regulators, snap rings and head gasket failures (easily avoided - just change your engine coolant with every new timing belt) and how big of a deal all this is.
These things are minor and easily fixed for a couple of thousand dollars (max) when caught early.
When done, you have one of the best-engineered road cars ever built, without faults, and someday if you want to race your NSX you can put some more money into it and achieve world-class performance, 25 years after it was designed.
The NSX is one of the most under-appreciated cars in the world and I'm thrilled to have one in my garage.
It's time to appreciate the NSX for what it is - a finely crafted work of automotive engineering art.
As of today I have 196,285 km on mine.
