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YACT - Acura NSX

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gregshin

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My next car will be a used NSX in about a year...i always thought they were overpriced, slow, overrated until i got to drive one for day. It was a 1991 NA1 model which 80,000 miles and wow the car still pulls and feels great. Everything about the car was still solid i was just amazed at the handling and feedback from the car...gotta love that F1 sounding motor right behind ya too. I wonder if any of you had the same preception of the nsx as i did before.
 
Insurance will rape you - and you better pray you don't ever get into an accident, as there are only a handful of shops in the whole US that are certified to work on aluminium.
 
Originally posted by: Maximus96
how much does a used one go for nowadays?
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Early 90's models are still going for $20+K. The NSX has one of the highest residual values of any sports car, IIRC.
 
My opinion was always that they were underpowered but otherwise great cars. For supercar status they needed at 100 more hp...in the early 90s they weren't too far from lower end Ferraris in price and Ferrari certainly had more cachet than Honda (Acura was a young brand then).
 
I think they're making a new one.. or have something on the drawing board... of course it'll prob be in the 80s - 100s if it does make it out..
 
They don't impress me in the way they did upon release but I still turn my head when I see one go by. IMO, they look better than they run but not a bad car by any means.
 
Originally posted by: SearchMaster
My opinion was always that they were underpowered but otherwise great cars. For supercar status they needed at 100 more hp...in the early 90s they weren't too far from lower end Ferraris in price and Ferrari certainly had more cachet than Honda (Acura was a young brand then).
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yeah problem is those ferraris had crappy quality...i believe it was the NSX that changed the preception that an exotic super can be built to last and have decent low maintence costs.
 
I remember a review, when they first came out.. They weren't sure if they can put the car into exotic car catagory, because it can be everyday driving car. They were that plesant and reliable.

They are beautiful cars..
 
some years had a problem called a snap ring or something, but supposedly it was fixed under a recall.

if you haven't already, you can look around nsxprime.com

Still very expensive, and lots of high mileage ones on the market. But i guess it's telling the NSX routinely makes 100K miles as if it were just a pedestrian car.
 
Originally posted by: Ryan
Insurance will rape you - and you better pray you don't ever get into an accident, as there are only a handful of shops in the whole US that are certified to work on aluminium.
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What happens if you drive an Audi? I smell BS.
 
Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Originally posted by: Ryan
Insurance will rape you - and you better pray you don't ever get into an accident, as there are only a handful of shops in the whole US that are certified to work on aluminium.
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What happens if you drive an Audi? I smell BS.
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maybe you can search google first before posting

last i read aluminum is indeed harder to repair and has special considerations.

on the plus side, supposedly this means you will less likely come across a wrecked and sloppily repaired NSX.
 
Great car, but definitely their pricing bracket was the car's downfall. Think if they went 15-20k less then it would have been better for the car. The price back then was really expensive even considering todays value of money and inflation, so back then it was unreasonable.

As for now, well a 1991 is a 15 year old car and that IMO puts it as a bad idea for something to buy. Maybe one of the late model ones, but still even that is pushing 9 yrs old.
 
Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Originally posted by: Ryan
Insurance will rape you - and you better pray you don't ever get into an accident, as there are only a handful of shops in the whole US that are certified to work on aluminium.
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What happens if you drive an Audi? I smell BS.
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http://www.vehicleinfo.com/AutoMuse/archives/2004/11/new_technology.html

Manufacturer certified repair facilities

Redesigning cars, in turn, puts pressure on repair facilities to be able to meet customers? needs in effecting a proper repair. If a shop does not have the space or financial ability to dedicate an area and tools for one particular material, it will not be able to meet manufacturers? repair guidelines. Auto makers understand that repair shops may not have the ability to make these commitments and have created their own species of repairers ? the manufacturer certified repair facility.

Becoming a certified facility, however, is no easy matter. Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar, for example, will only consider shops sponsored by a franchise dealer, and that is only the first step of the process. Mercedes requires applicants to pass an audit that demonstrates the facility has equipment (like a paint booth, welders, and structure aligning tools) authorized for use by the manufacturer, can comply with all Mercedes standards, can meet expected turn-around time, uses only Mercedes parts for repairs, has proper training, and has computer estimating and office management programs. In his presentation on certification for the I-CAR annual convention in the beginning of August, 2004, Raymond Coker of Mercedes-Benz, USA stated that there are currently only fifty-seven facilities in the United States which have been certified and only seventeen of those have met the structural requirements necessary to work on the CL model.
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Originally posted by: OS
Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Originally posted by: Ryan
Insurance will rape you - and you better pray you don't ever get into an accident, as there are only a handful of shops in the whole US that are certified to work on aluminium.
Click to expand...

What happens if you drive an Audi? I smell BS.
Click to expand...

maybe you can search google first before posting

last i read aluminum is indeed harder to repair and has special considerations.

on the plus side, supposedly this means you will less likely come across a wrecked and sloppily repaired NSX.
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Yea, back in 2004 there were only 13 technically licensed body shops in the nation that were certified to work on aluminum. That doesn't mean there are more out there that arn't licensed, but that was the state of affairs a couple years ago.

The audi A8 is the only audi with an all aluminum body and frame. If you wreck one it is expensive to fix.

Shops have to make a completely self contained bay/building/area in order to work on aluminum, along with aluminum only tools and special training. It's very expensive for a shop to get certified to work on aluminum. Though if the NSX is the car you want and you have the money, who really cares?
 
Originally posted by: gregshin
...i always thought they were overpriced, slow, overrated
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That was always my impression too... they look pretty decent, but performance seemed lacking. Did it really handle well enough to be worth the price premium?
 
The -r is sickening on a race track. A very balanced car with a lot of history and testing input by Ayrton Sienna. Wasn't there that video of him driving it around the 'ring with shoes that look like slippers? I'm aware that they are not racing shoes 😛

Koing
 
Originally posted by: Pocatello
Underpowered and overpriced, but reliable for a sport car.
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For it's time - it was plenty fast. Any stock car that could hit low 13 second quarter miles was in supercar territory in the mid-90's.
 
Saw my first glimpse of the NSX in a playboy mag when I was 13...I want one.
I think the main differnce between the older and newer models is the engine.
And maybe the Targa top?
 
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