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The definitive story of Honda's amazing supercar, the NSX
Honda’s superbly engineered flagship model, the Acura NSX, is the ultimate Japanese supercar. This book charts, in great detail, the complete history of the Honda/Acura NSX from inception to the present, and also incorporates a buyer's guide. Features over 380 colour photos, advertising literature and interviews with key Honda personnel in order to tell the real story of the NSX. An absolute must have for anyone who owns, plans to own, or just plain admires the thinking person's supercar, the NSX.
Beginning in Japan, the Acura NSX is now made by hand in Ohio! This high-low book immerses readers in the parts and features of this stylish supercar through leveled text and crisp photos. Special features share car specifications, map where it’s made, show off the size, and more. This action-packed title is sure to keep reluctant readers engaged on every page!
The NSX was announced in 1989 and introduced in 1990. It was a technical tour de force v aluminum body structure and suspension, mid-mounted quad-cam 24-valve V6 engine. However, Honda was supposed to be a family car maker and not a producer of supercars, and the NSX did not have the pedigree of a Porsche or Ferrari. Honda persevered adding a targa top and automatic options. Nevertheless the NSX was more than a pretender to the supercar crown by offering reliability and drivability. This is a book of contemporary road and comparison tests, specification and technical data, driver's impressions. Includes: F-Matic, NSX-T, NSX-R, NSX-T F-Matic, Automatic.
Honda announced the NSX in 1989. It was a technical tour de force, but despite the car's excellence it did not have the pedigree from makers like Porsche and Ferrari. In 2005, with worldwide production down to a couple of hundred cars per year and the resulting high production costs, Honda decided that it was not financially viable to continue manufacturing the NSX.
"50 Years with Car and Driver commemorates the golden anniversary of the most popular car magazine on the planet. But more than that, 50 Years with Car and Driver tells the story of the American automobile and how the editors of the magazine witnessed that history and reported on it, firsthand. A look at how Car and Driver evolved from its beginnings as Sports Cars Illustrated, in the able hands of great automotive journalists such as Ken Purdy and John Christy, and then came into it own as the musclecar era of the Sixties dawned. Writers such as David E. Davis, Jr., Brock Yates and Patrick Bedard helped to craft a literary car magazine that drew as much inspiration from Tom Wolfe's writing ...
Honda's superbly engineered flagship model, the NSX, is the ultimate Japanese supercar. This book charts, in great detail, the complete history of the Honda NSX from inception to the present, and also incorporates a buyer's guide. Features over 380 colour photos, advertising literature and interviews with key Honda personnel in order to tell the real story of the NSX. An absolute must have for anyone who owns, plans to own, or just plain admires the thinking person's supercar, the NSX.