About a week ago I'm sitting at a red light getting ready to turn right and out of the corner of my eye I see a black(what I thought at the time an Italian sports car Ferrari?)Anyway I didn't get a real good look as it went by.Well today I was in my Mustang same light complety differant time of day and I see the same black car coming at me.Got a real good glimpse of the front and complety ruled out a Ferrari.This time I was able to turn right and catch up to him.Disclaimer.........I live in the Metro Detroit area and we don't see a whole lot of foriegn cars.But when I caught up to it it said ACURA on the back and had a BIG spoiler. He turned off rather shortley so I wasn't able to make out the model .Anyways can anyone here tell me what the model of the Acura I saw was.And second if I should run into him again is it in my best interest to run with him or leave well enough alone.The car looked like it could be real fast.Just don't want to embarass myself.

 

i would have to say an acura NSX.

 

^^^^^+1, probably just a modded NSX with an aftermarket wing. Pretty nice cars and very rare, I think more rare than Ferraris and Lambos.

 

Thanks I googled it after you guy's gave me the model and it looked real similar to this one.It says 1995 did they quit making them?3.0 ltr 285 hp $85,000.Seems a little pricey for 11 years ago. http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/cars/nsx.html

 

Yes I believe they stopped producing them and if you wanted one, I doubt theres very many in the U.S. available. I think they came with 2 engine options, one having a little more power than the other, but I dont remember in details.

 

NSX=all looks. They were heavy, expensive, and slow.

 

Heavy, ummm, NO, unless your comparing it to a CRX or something, they weigh alittle over 3000lb and the six-speed NSX comes with a larger 3.2-liter V6 engine that makes 290 ponies. Automatic NSXs come with a 3.0-liter, 252-horse V6.

Just looked up the times for an NSX with a manual tranny, C&D tested the 1998 NSX and it ran 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds and ran the 1/4 mile in 12.9, so if you still wanna say slow than thats up to you, you do have 2 cars that would beat this, but both your cars stock vs. this one stock you'd lose and lose bad. But your right about one thing, expensive as f*ck. They had one for sale here in my city awhile back, I think it was a 97, and it was $55,000.

 

They quit making the NSX last year.

It's a decent car but overrpiced new IMO. The newer 2004/2005 shape looks really good. The NSX was released because Honda/Acura wanted to make a car that was labeled "exotic" but could still be used as a daily driver. It gives about the same gas mileage as our cars.

There are far better cars for the money though....

 

Umm, my $20,000 SRT-4 when it had minor (less than $1000 worth) of bolt on's absolutly blows the doors off the local NSX. Not that it's a big deal, most of the decent cars around here do. As far as weight, my SRT weighs <2900 lbs, and it has 4 doors. The Stang weighs 3500 pounds and it's considered a pig. So the 3100 pound NSX is heavy if you ask me. And the price is a joke. At the time Vipers could be had for <$60,000, with better looks and obvious performance advantages to the $80,000 NSX. The NSX was, and still is, a bad joke.

 

Thank you for speaking your opinion, that is yours and I posted mine. And I also posted some facts for you. 2900lbs for your SRT-4, to me thats a pig compared to my Celica GTS, that only weighs 2500lbs, but your right 3100lbs would be alot if you drive something that weighs a couple hundred pounds less. NSX's can be had for under $50,000 used, which is a sh*t load of money and your right about buying something else thats faster and cheaper. What did you buy for under $1,000, besides Nitrous, that lowered your SRT-4 into the 12 second 1/4 mile range? If it was that easy get into the 12's, why arent all SRT-4's in the 12's. And I could go buy me a fox body for $4,000 and put about $2,000 in it and run 11's all day long, but thats just the route I would rather take. Like I said, this is just my opinion and its just your opinion about the NSX.