Hi all,
I am a London UK based car nut and have been searching out info on the new NSX daily for the past few months. It never occurred to me that there might be an active forum section dedicated to it.
I am a 4 time GT-R owner, having sold my last one last week. It was tough to say goodbye to 800bhp, but having some close second hand experience of the 918, I'm utterly convinced of the new technology and excited by what it means. Now that the spec sheet of the NSX includes twin turbos, pretty much every detail they've released is exactly what I'd spec. All I want now is adaptive cruise, apple car play and vented seats!
Anyway, I have a deposit placed on one, but we aren't expecting delivery until early 2016.
Reason I signed up on here is to share thoughts and opinions with people. It's mostly the technology that has me interested, that and the fact that it's a honda. They are up there with the best engine designers out there, and with direct injection, dry sump, twin turbo, vtec, twin clutch 7 speed and three electric motors, what's not to like?
I may have missed it, but what excites me most is the handling potential. The GT-R has amazed me in terms of what it's capable of, but I always wished it was smaller lighter and lower, and mid-engined. The NSX provides all these and more, specifically the torque vectoring.
I might be going mad but having looked at the ferrari, mclaren and porsche, none of these seems to take advantage of an individual wheel being driven by its own motor. Is it just me who can see enormous handling potential in this? Fingers crossed they manage to keep the weight down.
Other questions I have are regarding the benchmarking against other cars. They say they are going for 458/R8/GTR performance, but by the time the NSX is out, the 458 turbo will raise the bar again. I wonder which version of the 458 they'll have in their sites.
I've also been looking up the RLX hybrid (we don't get that in the UK) to try to learn anything I can about the potential hardware the NSX might have.
It's a long way off but already I can't wait.
I am a London UK based car nut and have been searching out info on the new NSX daily for the past few months. It never occurred to me that there might be an active forum section dedicated to it.
I am a 4 time GT-R owner, having sold my last one last week. It was tough to say goodbye to 800bhp, but having some close second hand experience of the 918, I'm utterly convinced of the new technology and excited by what it means. Now that the spec sheet of the NSX includes twin turbos, pretty much every detail they've released is exactly what I'd spec. All I want now is adaptive cruise, apple car play and vented seats!
Anyway, I have a deposit placed on one, but we aren't expecting delivery until early 2016.
Reason I signed up on here is to share thoughts and opinions with people. It's mostly the technology that has me interested, that and the fact that it's a honda. They are up there with the best engine designers out there, and with direct injection, dry sump, twin turbo, vtec, twin clutch 7 speed and three electric motors, what's not to like?
I may have missed it, but what excites me most is the handling potential. The GT-R has amazed me in terms of what it's capable of, but I always wished it was smaller lighter and lower, and mid-engined. The NSX provides all these and more, specifically the torque vectoring.
I might be going mad but having looked at the ferrari, mclaren and porsche, none of these seems to take advantage of an individual wheel being driven by its own motor. Is it just me who can see enormous handling potential in this? Fingers crossed they manage to keep the weight down.
Other questions I have are regarding the benchmarking against other cars. They say they are going for 458/R8/GTR performance, but by the time the NSX is out, the 458 turbo will raise the bar again. I wonder which version of the 458 they'll have in their sites.
I've also been looking up the RLX hybrid (we don't get that in the UK) to try to learn anything I can about the potential hardware the NSX might have.
It's a long way off but already I can't wait.
