Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd
the 2002 NSX was *$8x,000
the 2002 C5 z06 was $55,000 ish

the 2008 Z06 was $8x,000

Both the vettes were vastly bigger motors, hp, tq, tires, etc. They were MUCH faster no one is denying that.

What im simply saying is the NSX Hovered around the same price range for 12 years, and never changed. Its still using technology that was debuted in 1990. Now the same can be said about the vette with "pushrods" but dont tell me the newer vettes share ANYTHING in common with the older 90s vettes.

The NSX was a supercar , it lacked balls, but it wasnt about being brutally fast, i mean what honda is? It was meant to be a fun, BALANCED car. ANd thats exactly what it was. If you bought one thinking it was going to be crazy fast, you bought it for the wrong reasons

Look, C5s are under $12000 now, ZO6s are under $20,000, Base model C6s are under $28000 now.

you cant BUY a used NSX for less than $20,000 and thats gonna be a 91-95 model.

Wonder why they hold their value
You are WAY off in a lot of points you make.

For one, the ZR-1 from 1990 had a lot more awesome technology for the time, than the NSX did. And I believe the MSRP was between 60 - 70k.

New Z06s are not, and never were 80+k. Just because people got price gouged, doesn't mean that's what they cost The '07's and newer went up quite a bit in price, but even then the MSRP was 68k, and you could get roughly 9k in options. So after taxes and such it's POSSIBLE to get the Z06 around 80k brand new, but you can't say that's the price of the car...especially the MSRP.

Also, Z06s are not 20k now. The C5's still cost well over 20k. They were still in the mid - high 30's (some low 40's) until the C6 came out, then they dropped in price. The NSX holds its value better, because there were hardly any made. The Corvette is mass produced, and even the limited Z06 has far more made than most rare or exotic cars.

The NSX had amazing styling in 1990, I'm not arguing that. I personally never thought they were THAT amazing looking, but I did think they looked pretty cool. Nowadays, I think they are pretty bland. Even the Gen1 Vipers looked tons better than any NSX ever has. I think a C6 Z06 blows the NSX out of the water as far as styling goes. Just because you see them more often, doesn't mean their styling isn't incredible.

Personally, I just don't think the NSX is "all that," even in how it looks. Like I said before, it's a cool car....it really is. But it's styling isn't anything that really "does it" for me, and it's extremely expensive, and doesn't have very good performance.