Alex Unleashed on Cars- Honda NSX (The Usable Supercar)
The original Honda NSX is one of those cars and things in general that isn’t truly appreciated until years after its gone. If you read/watch sources from the time you’d never get the sense that this car really evolved the supercar genre and high-performance cars as a whole. Whereas now, if you read/watch retrospective pieces, you see lots of the same admiration and praise for what was a car so far ahead of the game that made all the other manufactures take a good look at themselves and make an effort to improve their offerings, I mean compare the Ferrari 348 to 355 or Porsche introducing both the Carrera 4 and the 4-wheel drive Turbo, some of the most highly praised cars of their time and class. The general consensus is that these came about because the NSX showed that the supercar could have the usability and exploitability of a hot hatch and the superlative performance and exclusivity of said supercars. The concept for the NSX began back in 1984 and was highly advanced techni...