Quote Originally Posted by Nick McCardle
Where the hell is all this talk of class and exotic coming from when talking about the NSX? Give me a break. It's a freaking Acura...extremely overpriced with poor performance and early 90's styling.

Let's take a look at a 2005, shall we?



Seriously, that's the amazing quality, exotic, classy interior?
Honestly, I'm more impressed with an '05 Corolla's interior.



...and I'll be damned if that doesn't look like a stretched and sleeked down 90's two door Accord with a mid-engine.

As far as power goes...a freaking Nissan Maxima in 2005 was only 25hp short of the 2005 NSX and beat it on torque by 31ft/lbs.

I'll give it handling and exclusiveness of some sort simply for the low production numbers. However, I refuse to say it's an exotic or display of class in any way. If this was the early nineties I'd be a lot nicer about it, but an '05 NSX is like Honda's overpriced polished turd.
The nsx interior is the same from 91-05. It's a fair argument to say that the interior styling is outdated, but that doesn't mean it's quality is lacking. In the 1st pic see a nice interior wrapped entirely in leather including the dash. In the 2nd pic I see a plastic/cloth, rental car inspired, econobox interior with some super duper brushed aluminum inserts .

Then you compare the exterior to an accord? I think most people, enthusiast or not, will agree that the nsx has an exotic exterior unlike the humdrum appearance of an accord.

So what if a Maxima designed 14+ years later has similar power output. The Pontiac G8 GT has more power than the C5 Vette. It's cool but it doesn't really mean that much in terms of overall performance. The average car has gotten a lot more power in recent years, while the nsx remained relatively unchanged 1991-2005. Cars that were fast, aren't anymore. The nsx was an awesome car, hence a 15 year production.

It's stupid to knock down a car for the wrong reasons. The nsx was fast in it's day. It beat out many of the supercars of it's era. It was ahead of it's time with new innovations to the chassis and suspension. In addition to the performance it offered honda reliability on a supercar. The car was designed in the 80's, but it's timeless design still drops jaws and panties. Hardly the "polished turd" that you described it to be. I wouldn't consider myself to be a nsx fanboy, but I've driven a few and know a little bit about them. I'm just a little shocked at some of the ignorant comments.