Meeyatch1:
You probably know a lot more about this than I do but I just went online to the Nissan website to get a quote on a basic (called Premium) edition GT-R and I added the premium interior package, a few floor mats and the price was just under $106K. If the new NSX MSRP's for $120K-$130 it would possibly be within $20K of the GT-R. And if it offers better handling, better looks, much better ergonomics, much better fuel economy, better build quality and with similar acceleration, I would think it should easily command such a price premium.
Regarding #2, I appreciate to some extent, your point on the collector car status of the NSX but I am not too sure it holds much water. There are over 2 million 1st Generation Mustangs originally produced and the car has increased in value 10 fold in the last 25 years. So I don't think that the NSX's production numbers of 8K by itself are going hurt it much as a collector car. Many automotive publications are predicting that the NSX's price is already going up and will continue to do so. The second a car goes from money pit to investment, everything changes and it can snowball fast. Very few car models get there and the NSX is one of them. Will the GT-R ever appreciate in value? I don't know. But if history of a model appreciating, is any indication of the next generation appreciating, the next NSX will as well.
Extrapolating between the NSX1.0 to NSX2.0 is a very dangerous game given the substantial difference between the 2 cars.
A car like the NSX2.0 that has all kinds of goodies "might" have a high cost of ownership once the manufacturer's warranty expires.
That is the same exact problem that the high end European cars have, once out of warranty the cost of replacement parts can be ridiculously expensive.
The current R35 GT-R is another example, it costs an arm and a leg for the electronic components, for example replacing the dash instrument panel is close to a $2K expense, replacing the entertainment system that also has the integrated climate control unit is $5K. Replacing a complete DCT transmission with a new one is a 15K-20K job. So in the long term highly doubt that the GT-R will hold it's values.
The more complex the car, the more components that can fail over the long term. The more exclusive the car, the higher the cost of said components due to the lack of volume.
It all comes down to statistics, failure analysis and modeling.
The original NSX retained it's value due to the lack of major mechanical issues (besides the snap-ring failures).
The Bose Stereo system amplifiers as well as the climate control system as well as the window actuators are where the majority of the electronics failures happened, the cost of repairing those were trivial since the repairs consisted of replacement of discrete components (like what BrianK was well versed in doing) or the complete replacement of the units themselves (in the case of the window actuators).
(oops forgot about the coil packs, replaced quite a few of those on my NA2)
Electronic components are no longer discrete, technicians don't replace discrete components anymore, you replace entire modules because the module themselves are complex and you need special equipment to work on them to diagnose/troubleshoot/repair.
FWIW, I'm a EE by schooling, so I am just injecting a dose of reality based on my own personal knowledge of the field.
