NSXs

"RacinBob" (racinbob) 06/19/2020 at 09:12 • Filed to: None

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31 used ones on Autotrader with the least expensive at $109, 700. 18 new ones starting out at $167,000. Not much of a thing.......

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > RacinBob 06/19/2020 at 09:24

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A few years ago the OG ones were popping up in the 30-40k range. The cheapest old one there now is 45k.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RacinBob 06/19/2020 at 09:24

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I still think I haven't seen one. And I've seen a few first gen NSXs, but the current one seems to be languishing without any dealer or customer orders.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > RacinBob 06/19/2020 at 10:25

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They are nice cars, but the performance lags its competitors. And obviously overpriced since Acura was selling new ones for $30k or more off sticker last year - now they might just have given up! 

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 06/19/2020 at 10:45

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That is a shit ton of car for 45k.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 06/19/2020 at 10:54

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I mean, is it? A 3000 lbs car with less than 300 hp? They look cool as hell, but as far as I know, they’re not that good a car. Obviously I’ve never driven one, but from what I’ve read, they don’t offer the crazy knife-edge handling you’d expect from something that appears to be a supercar. They were intended to be daily drivable, so they’re kind of soft.

45k will get you a whole lot of car. I don’t know that an old NSX is what I’d get if it were my money.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 06/19/2020 at 11:03

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My bad, I thought you were referencing the oldest versions of the new one!

That said, aren’t perfect first gens going for like $100K?

nermal > RacinBob 06/19/2020 at 11:06

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On a similar note , there are several used BMW i8s with $55k - $60k advertised prices. I think that they are undeniably the best value for a road-driven poser “supercar”. L ooks fast , but has great slow speed manners for cruising through areas with crowds of jealous people .

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 06/19/2020 at 11:11

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Playing around on Autotrader, a good condition runner (90k+ miles, but all it is is a backwards Accord so it’s fine) tends to be listed for under 50k . The lowest mile example of a first generation (any facelift) is just under 10k miles and listed for 80k. The most expensive is a laughable (even though it’s a JDM type R) 300k USD for a 30k mile example one.

RacinBob > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/19/2020 at 11:17

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I have to wonder whether Acura will wind the new NSX experiment down. It’s kind of a tough sell when you can buy 2 new corvettes for one NSX.....

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RacinBob 06/19/2020 at 11:22

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You kind of wonder why Acura didn't pull a C8 first. Then it might have been good, but the C8 is basically the same idea but newer and much cheaper.

RacinBob > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/19/2020 at 12:10

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Yep - I wonder if they felt that if it was going to be a halo car, it had to be hybrid technology. Also I wonder if the plan was to make a couple hundred a year globally as that was all the manufacturing space they were willing to commit to it. If so, the y needed a $170k car to make the business case.

The problem is the new Corvette is way less ex pensive than the NSX as a base car. Plus a ZR1 or whatever will probably out perform it at 2/3 the price.

Meanwhile, it does not have the panac he of a McClaren or Ferr a ri.

Maybe it is thin air for $170k sports car. As such i t’s s tuck in the middle and car that the pandemic will probably kill.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RacinBob 06/19/2020 at 12:14

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Such a large price tag is totally antithetical to what the stated goal of the car was and what made the original so great. The NSX should have been the C8 but it wasn't. 

RacinBob > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/19/2020 at 12:49

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I agree, but these kind of decisions are made by people who are a lot smarter than you or I.

In their defense, Honda probably knows that it can never equal the Vette in volume over the long term. And without volume they cannot make the investments in production technology that allows a profitable $60k base NSX .

So they made it $170k hybrid and assumed they could sell a couple of hundred a year and pay for the effort. Neat car, maybe I will get one if they ever get down to $40k.