Acura NSX refresh program?

[05XR8]

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/honda-acura-nsx-refresh-program-for-us/

I feel the ridiculous pricing is certainly worth it for these machines. If anyone have the means.. by all means, that'd be cool.
The cars aren't "Honda" NSXs, but that type car(MR, NA, Manual) isn't made anymore. It's fine for Acura owners to keep these cars going.

 

[McLaren]

I could see it happening. I don't think NSX values are going to drop anymore & there's probably a good batch of owners willing to put examples through a factory-backed program to boost values.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I could see it happening. I don't think NSX values are going to drop anymore & there's probably a good batch of owners willing to put examples through a factory-backed program to boost values.

Drop anymore? I'm pretty sure that happened 10 years ago. They seem to be headed in one direction now - up. This makes a lot of sense especially as there never been a proper equivalent to the NSX. If you want that type of car, its either this or maybe, maybe an R8...but the R8 is kind of a wide boi.

 

[Jump_Ace]

How about they increase the roof clearance 6in and widen the space on both sides of the gas pedal? I'm 6'4" and can't fit in my dream car. I literally can't fit my shoe between the brake and right side of the under-cabin to press the gas pedal. #UGHWTF


Jerome

 

[05XR8]

How about they increase the roof clearance 6in and widen the space on both sides of the gas pedal? I'm 6'4" and can't fit in my dream car. I literally can't fit my shoe between the brake and right side of the under-cabin to press the gas pedal. #UGHWTF


Jerome

Drive barefoot or with grippy-bottom socks.

 

[Tornado]

I'm kind of surprised that it took this long for something like this to pop up. There's clearly a market for it that only seems to be getting hungrier for the ones still on the road. Granted I know that the volume level isn't there like it is for, say, an old Corvette, so I would never expect anything to the extent of "you can just build an entire car out of a catalogue" like you can with one of the various Boomermobiles; but if you're buying into an NSX or Supra you clearly have money at this point and those programs have already existed in Japan by the manufacturers for a while for seemingly most of the bubble-era cars.

Drop anymore? I'm pretty sure that happened 10 years ago. They seem to be headed in one direction now - up. This makes a lot of sense especially as there never been a proper equivalent to the NSX. If you want that type of car, its either this or maybe, maybe an R8...but the R8 is kind of a wide boi.

As long as people don't give up on their NSX dreams and start buying Esprits.

 

[TonyJZX]

They should have a program to convert all automatics to 6 spd man.

 

[Frank McGank]

Drop anymore? I'm pretty sure that happened 10 years ago. They seem to be headed in one direction now - up. This makes a lot of sense especially as there never been a proper equivalent to the NSX. If you want that type of car, its either this or maybe, maybe an R8...but the R8 is kind of a wide boi.

Even if there were true NSX competitors, we’re firmly in the era of 80s-90s Japanese classics being the desirable collectors’ cars. The kids that grew up playin Gran Turismo are now in their 30s and 40s, and the successful businessowners of the bunch have the means to buy the cars they lusted over as kids. The prices have skyrocketed accordingly. Same thing happened to old American muscle cars in the 90s, and 911s like 10 years ago.

It’s wild just how rapidly and highly Japanese classics have risen in price. I distinctly remember looking into importing an AE86 around 2009-2010, and I could find clean barely-modified ones for less than $5k all day. Nowadays you can’t find a clapped out ******* one for lower than that. Skylines have it even worse; around the same time I found a mildly tuned R32 GTR for about $8k. Good luck finding even a GTS-T for less than $10k now. About the only things you can find that haven’t shot to the moon are the ones nobody wants. saloons, automatics, 70s-early 80s ones. But even then, it’s just a matter of time before the prices of the “cool” ones get too high and people start snapping those ones up as a replacement. And the prices rise to compensate. We sort of missed the bus for getting in on tuner icons, the time to buy was pre-2012. Early-mid 2000s European stuff seems the next wave to ride.

I'm kind of surprised that it took this long for something like this to pop up. There's clearly a market for it that only seems to be getting hungrier for the ones still on the road. Granted I know that the volume level isn't there like it is for, say, an old Corvette, so I would never expect anything to the extent of "you can just build an entire car out of a catalogue" like you can with one of the various Boomermobiles; but if you're buying into an NSX or Supra you clearly have money at this point and those programs have already existed in Japan by the manufacturers for a while for seemingly most of the bubble-era cars.


As long as people don't give up on their NSX dreams and start buying Esprits.

give it time. Took the better part of 30 years before there was an established market to allow one to build an entire 65 Mustang from repro parts. Boomers are dying off, the attachment to 50s-70s stuff is dying out with em. Some millennial isn’t going to drop 7 figures on a big block ‘Cuda just because his dad did. His dad did because he fantasised about reliving his youth. Millennial Mikey is gonna want to as well, and HIS youth will be something like an FD or C5 Corvette. In 2040, I have zero doubt something like an R34 GTR won’t be edging near a quarter-million dollars in value for an unmolested example.