Sure,
this exact concept has only been shown to us since
January of 2012, going on three years. Meanwhile all we've had is speculation as to performance and pricetag, as well as a somewhat refined concept II given to us in 2013. Maybe you've forgotten, but they've been showing us crap like this since
2004:
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In
2007, their CEO told us we'd have a car by
2010. They even had prototypes running around the
nurburgring in
2008. By the time they got around to showing us another car in
January of 2012,
it had already been long-awaited and eagerly anticipated. They continued to pimp it at auto shows as a Honda NSX, hitting the headlines each time as a different car, and by the time it returned to north america as the Acura NSX in
2013, people were already getting restless and treating it as non-news. Now in 2014, many journalists are beginning to refer to the car as a
2016. All the while the fun has been completely sucked out of Honda and what was once a promising new luxury brand with attractive cars has had all of its lineup neutered with terrible looks and is now considered one of the
worst brands for customer satisfaction.
The FT86 was not unveiled until October of 2009. with first delivery in May of 2012, or about
2.5 years. The FT-HS concept was one of many concepts and it was not touted as something that would ever be produced. You are correct, we had to see that ugly duckling GT-R concept in 2001, but at the time Nissan was selling it only as a demonstration of the future, not an actual production car (Nissan was still producing the R34). It wasn't until Oct of 2005 that they showed a real-deal GT-R concept, and it launced in December of 2007 and July of 2008 in the US (about
2.5 years). Sure, you could easily suggest that those demo-concepts were similar to the Honda HSC, etc., but unlike Honda,
Nissan and Toyota never led us to believe those cars would be produced.
True, the LFA was a long-awaited, based on a very radical concept and then delayed to get a massive structural redesign. However, it's arguably a totally different animal altogether as it was a $400k, limited production supercar which was never intended to be made in significant quantity a-la GT-R or NSX, even limited by Ferrari standards. Still, it was a pretty big joke back then for Toyota/Lexus and not a good excuse for Acura today. By comparison, McLaren blew everyone away in October of 2012 when they unveiled the P1 and it's been in customer's hands since early this year (first delivery in October 2013). About
1 year from unveiling to delivery.
If you compare the FT86 and the GT-R to the 2012 Acura NSX Concept, at this point people would already be placing their orders, and next spring and summer people would have their new NSX parked in their garage. Right now we don't even know if we'll get a car in 2015.
