NSX Is Cancelled. Mixed Emotions On The Subject.

NSX is cancelled.

By Gunnar Heinrich

READING The Motor Report today Dan Fewster had me laughing out loud. 

“I knew something was amiss this morning, I’d felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced, and now it all makes sense,” TMR’s scribe typed.

Strong with Mr. Fewster, the Force for using Star Wars metaphors is.

The pain that he and the crying “millions” feel is in reaction to the Honda Motor Company’s decision to cancel the 2010 NSX – heir apparent to the mid-engined Ferrari F355 fighting legacy Honda manufactured more than a decade ago. 

But that agony isn’t shared by everyone.

“Well, I say good riddance to a stupid idea. I’m in that camp of people that thinks the original NSX is the very rare car that came out perfectly,” TTAC’s Justin Berkowitz offered. Adding his own fiscal cents to the discussion, Mr. Berkowitz wrote that he couldn’t “understand the business case for a front-engined V10 Acura NSX. Trickle down tech?”

Hmm…

As much as I’m loathe to agree with so morbid a point of view, I’m inclined to agree with so morbid a point of view. This once.

The new NSX had too little to do with its well liked predecessor. The only genetic carry over from the original’s 1990s flat-ironed Nipponese take on Ferrari was the subtle homage to the first car’s unified taillight cluster. Hardly daring, mind you, the designers had the same idea for Dodge’s retro themed Challenger.

It goes to show that everything that once was old could be made new again, so long as it ties in with the original somehow.

So for the cancelled NSX, another time, perhaps. To the pained millions, take heart. We still have Nissan’s fly GT-R. And let’s take this moment to hope that if there is to be another NSX, the Force will be strong enough to cast the successor truer to form.

[Linked: TMR | TTAC]