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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.
Nissan’s Understated GT-R
By Gunnar Heinrich | IMG Found on Carzi.com
JALOPNIK posted an interesting comparative pic.
Captured for your amusement were a Nissan GT-R and Acura NSX parked side by side, both trimmed in polar white finishes. In stature, the tall Nissan dwarfs the low profile Acura; a two door 90s sports car that owed much stylistically to designs originally penned by Giugaro and Pininfarina.
Yours witnessed his first GT-R in person this week. Funny thing was, I almost didn’t notice it.
Jet black, it advanced quietly through traffic (there was no loud exhaust to grab my attention from the opposite lane) the GT-R seemed the ultimate in Japanese discretion.
Not a bad thing, per se. Nissan doesn’t need to make a sports car that shouts its arrival.
The aforementioned NSX borrowed so many Ferrari cues, that it drew most of its attention from pedestrians who thought they just saw a Ferrari. Rival Toyota molded the last generation Supra into a unique shape, but, it wasn’t universal in its stylistic appeal.
The Nissan really doesn’t offend and yet it’s anything but milquetoast. The car appears to have genuine visual character all its own.
But it does blend a little…
