| Message |
sort of a "what if" scenario going on in everyone's head. What if the corporate big wigs at Nissan said "fuck backseats, put the engine and turbochargers back there and make it outrun a ferrari for corvette money". Call my statement regarding the value false all you want, I've looked at many a pristine 2+2 for $6500.00 and by pristine I mean original owner, low mileage cars that with a good detailing is ready to go to a concourse. Remember, it was a volume seller and part of the Z32 lineup virtually from the beginning. It's not comparable in value to the convertible or slicktop NAs. You can get a really nicely sorted driver for $5K. Honda stopped producing the NSX because it just wasn't selling anymore, but I'd consider it one of Honda's most triumphant successes. IMHO the NSX is the highlight of the '90s for Honda, throughout its 14 model-year tenure it remained on the same platform with the same basic architecture and powerplant. There's no other car, save the C4 Corvette (which was released in '83 and phazed out at the end of '96) which has lasted virtually unchanged anywhere near as long as the NSX on the US market. If Nissan had gone ahead and made the Z32 to compete for the same buyer as the NSX, it might've pressured Toyota to do the same with the Supra and possibly Mazda with the RX-7 (wishful thinking here) who knows how the market might have ended up. If the mid-engine Z32 ended like the NSX it wouldn't have been a bad thing, quite the opposite in fact, it would've been awesome.
"It's been my experience that straight-line acceleration is probably the first aspect of automotive performance that any intelligent driver gets bored with." - Peter Gregg |
 |
