Yep, in that picture of the speedometer with the needle past 180 mph, those are my hands on the wheel.
If you drive down a hill that can increase the speed you achieve a LOT. If you remove the .pdf ending of THIS FILE and open it with Excel, you can see about how much of a slope you need to achieve various speeds in an NSX. Driving with the wind is another way to go significantly faster than 168 mph in a naturally-aspirated NA1.
Here’s that video my NSX getting up to a GPS-measured two-way average top speed of 186 mph: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5EmrML3p1U The fastest I have driven in only one direction is 304 km/h (189 mph), where the rev limiter seems to kick in on my NSX.
If you drive down a hill that can increase the speed you achieve a LOT. If you remove the .pdf ending of THIS FILE and open it with Excel, you can see about how much of a slope you need to achieve various speeds in an NSX. Driving with the wind is another way to go significantly faster than 168 mph in a naturally-aspirated NA1.
Here’s that video my NSX getting up to a GPS-measured two-way average top speed of 186 mph: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5EmrML3p1U The fastest I have driven in only one direction is 304 km/h (189 mph), where the rev limiter seems to kick in on my NSX.