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Dude, your avatar is hypnotic!

 

 

^^^ Nice job!

 

Thanks dude. Also just learned that many of the shots I took during the unveiling were featured on Acura's FB account....

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...9287409&type=3

 

is that you, anil?

 

Yup.

 

Clearly no....there was no black man being interviewed.

 

 

I'm never gonna live that down am I?

 

that is fr'kin cool as hell!!!!!! congrats.

 

im also anil...

a nil

A neil.

 

Congrats! That's cool.

 

Seriously? Why am I experiencing deja-vu, I think we had this talk before.

Thanks guys.

 

Nice interview

 

you're just a wannabe.

 

No.

But, damn...terrific work for the NSX! Congrats!

 

It's very possible, i also see it as a very common neil-anil exchange in the real world, lol

@mrstak, go to hell

but awesome stuff man! its good to know they are paying attention to the internet pulse...

 

If Honda was paying attention to teh internets, they could/would have corrected course years ago before running the ship into shoals. At the risk of sounding like Moogs, seriously, they STILL refuse to lose teh power plenum.

 

its really not that bad, i think the 4G tl (MMC) is a good example of how to pull it off... but i also dont think they couldve flat out dropped it that quickly

 

http://collider.com/avengers-movie-t...images/140630/

 

Superbowl ad:

 

Build it and they will come (back)...

 

Loved the commercial...and you know what? I loved the way the NSX sounded in the end.


Folks, I'm believin'!

NOW, ACURA/HONDA: DO NOT CANCEL THIS CAR!

 

loved the ad!

 

Just had a thought, what if the commercial was supposed to feature Conan O'Brien in the Seinfeld part? Leno comes in and 'steals' it from him ... again.

 

^ That's cold

 

I loved that commercial.

 

what's surprising to me is, Jerry Seinfeld is known to be a Porsche fanatic... I can only imagine how much Acura put out to do this commercial (which is unusual).

 

Good point. I wonder how much the budget was on that one.

 

That would have launched it into the stratosphere!

 

so...are we looking at 2 min commercials each during the Super Bowl?

 

During the SB, possibly. But I read that there are 30 second versions of each that will run afterwards.

 

Maybe this has already been said but what is the chance this new NSX isn't even real and just sheet metal over an old body.

Door panels are basically identical here.

 

Other than the design work, the fabrication and design of the rest of it, i'm speculating, is still going on regarding the new NSX. They did say the car for avengers was a one-off, so I don't doubt they did something like you said to get it out there and working for the movie.

Are you implying the next gen NSX will be a copy of the older, just updated?

 

What I am implying is that I don't even think a real concept model exist and anything they show as a concept is merely new skin on an old body. I usually would consider a concept as being a completely new frame and body even if it is one off.

I guess however they could have made it one off and made the door panels and interior roughly the same size so they didn't have to design an interior at this point.

However I would have no problem with an updated version being what be get as long as the price fits that which would be lower than the $89k it used to sell for.

Just found it interesting though and figured I would point it out in case no one noticed.

 

Many times, concepts are nothing more than clay models or shells. What we saw in Detorit was a real concept, but that doesn't mean it has to be functional in any way. Again, it's a concept, doesn't mean it has to have a new frame underneath it to be a concept and it certainly doesn't imply that the car they actually produce won't or will have a new frame. Now when they actually do create a functional version, that's a different story.

Don't see how this is any less than what we expect from other concepts.

 

Look at the Ford Shelby GR1 concept, a steering wheel plugged into the rear of the car so they could move it around. There was no interior.

 

...but he is not stupid.

Money first....fanatic second.

He can buy more Porsche with Honda's money.

 

Like I've said in other posts, they are VERY serious about making this car.

 

Of course they are, otherwise why would they have trumped it up with so much fanfare at the NAIAS and spend the dough for a big Superbowl commercial - they never did that with the HSC or the unnamed V10 f/r coupe.

We don't dispute that Honda is serious for realz this time.

I'm curious as to how aggressively they price this thing, seems that given the features its expected to have, we'll be lucky to see one in the showrooms around $120,000~ish. It's most natural competitor (for now) on paper would be an R8.