Car of the Week | Honda NSX Type R '92
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Single-Player Challenge
Road Atlanta: 1:33.348
Lake Louise Short: 1:04.765
Colorado Springs: 1:31.592
Total time: 4:09.705
if you beat me at colorado springs, good for you. the bumps made the experience terrible unlike the other two circuits, which i found more enjoyable.
Road Atlanta: 1:33.348
Lake Louise Short: 1:04.765
Colorado Springs: 1:31.592
Total time: 4:09.705
if you beat me at colorado springs, good for you. the bumps made the experience terrible unlike the other two circuits, which i found more enjoyable.
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- XSquareStickIt
The original NSXes, the NA1 and NA2, are cars that I've sort of feared being featured on COTW, because they're my childhood heroes, and I love them immensely. Hell, I have a section of my display cabinet almost entirely dedicated to the NSXes. They're legendary cars that others have covered much better than I could, and even on a subjective front, I don't think I could ever do the cars justice.
In GT7, the NA1-R makes a very strong argument for itself as the perfect sports car. Its achingly beautiful looks hasn't aged a day, and anyone who says a V6 can't sound good hasn't been near an NSX. Its NA engine is rather gutless unless it's screaming for its life, and yet, having to shift up almost feels like a tragic event with the 5 speed manual. The car is soft by modern standards, yet so naturally responsive with its overall light weight of 1,230kg (2,712lbs) and its low, unladen front end. On both corner entries and exits, it's so playful, yet so gradual in its playfulness, really letting drivers choose how much slip angle they want into and out of corners. And I especially love how, from the outside, the only visible changes of the Zenki NSX-R from the base NSX are the Enkei wheels and stripped out interior; none of that nonsensical boy–racer garbage that later Type Rs seem obligated to have, and there will always be a part of me that wishes the Type R ethos had stayed unchanged from the Zenki NSX.
I don't think I can retell the story of the NSX better than others already have, so I'll just dump here the excellent videos that the YouTube algorithm has bestowed upon me, and I hope you'll find the same value in these that I did.
savagegeese has an hour–long documentary on the original NSX, even scoring interviews with the car's original engineers, and Uehara Shigeru himself!
Kurosawa Motoharu, a.k.a. Gan–san, trashes the NSX-R around the Nordschleife in 1992.
In GT7, the NA1-R makes a very strong argument for itself as the perfect sports car. Its achingly beautiful looks hasn't aged a day, and anyone who says a V6 can't sound good hasn't been near an NSX. Its NA engine is rather gutless unless it's screaming for its life, and yet, having to shift up almost feels like a tragic event with the 5 speed manual. The car is soft by modern standards, yet so naturally responsive with its overall light weight of 1,230kg (2,712lbs) and its low, unladen front end. On both corner entries and exits, it's so playful, yet so gradual in its playfulness, really letting drivers choose how much slip angle they want into and out of corners. And I especially love how, from the outside, the only visible changes of the Zenki NSX-R from the base NSX are the Enkei wheels and stripped out interior; none of that nonsensical boy–racer garbage that later Type Rs seem obligated to have, and there will always be a part of me that wishes the Type R ethos had stayed unchanged from the Zenki NSX.
I don't think I can retell the story of the NSX better than others already have, so I'll just dump here the excellent videos that the YouTube algorithm has bestowed upon me, and I hope you'll find the same value in these that I did.
savagegeese has an hour–long documentary on the original NSX, even scoring interviews with the car's original engineers, and Uehara Shigeru himself!
Kurosawa Motoharu, a.k.a. Gan–san, trashes the NSX-R around the Nordschleife in 1992.
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looks like someone REALLY loves the nsx 😳😳😳
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- ScottPuss20
- CheetahsMeow
I didn't know you were into model cars. That's a great selection you have there.The original NSXes, the NA1 and NA2, are cars that I've sort of feared being featured on COTW, because they're my childhood heroes, and I love them immensely. Hell, I have a section of my display cabinet almost entirely dedicated to the NSXes. They're legendary cars that others have covered much better than I could, and even on a subjective front, I don't think I could ever do the cars justice.
