A Victim Of "Reaching Too High": Acura Decides To Shelve The NSX

Sad........

— Yonder7 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 4:17:45 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

We will see how long they shelve it when the Lexus LF-A drops!!!!!!!!

— B7FAN (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 4:22:58 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Someone should tell them it's a good thing to be far removed from some of acura's products

— Gambit (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 4:33:43 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

Acura has totally been a disappointment for me.

— Brembo (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 4:33:49 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Acura has went down hill in the past few years. All with the new generation styling. I still love the old NSX, even when I see one now I think it looks great. It's a shame because Acura makes nice cars, just that their styling has went south in my opinion. The chrome grille thing they are doing on their new models needs to stop.

— phantom330 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 4:58:51 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

I've stopped listening. Next month they'll say something different. Acura has become the leaders in vaporcars. It's obvious there is no one over there with a vision of what Acura should be so they just keep talking (out loud) about ideas. It's one of the stranger stories in this industry.

— SpicyMikey (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 5:04:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Lexus has more say to Toyota than Acura has to Honda.
That is the problem of Acura. It does not control its own destination (product planning, etc.). It takes whatever Honda is willing to give them. That is not the way to run a new brand. Honda is trying too hard to save cost, not the best way to run a luxury brand.

— ceric (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 5:28:58 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Mitchell, do you even know what you're talking about first off, do you even know the history of the Nissan GT-R before the car came out in the U.S. The GTR has always set the bar in Japan (known as the Skyline GT-R). The new and upcoming LF-A will not surpass what the GT-R has ever achieved. Next you must be really young since everyone who know's what the NSX would know that the mid engine NSX is RWD.

— jspecrsx (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 5:45:41 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 10   

Micthell is autospies's village idiot, pay him some respect as he is mentally disabled.

— MSP6 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 8:19:03 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

Considering that the cost of the LF-A would allow me to purchase 3 GT-Rs, all of which could probably hang with the Lexus, not to mention the history behind the car doesn't make me lust for an LF-A as much.

— StarSearch (View Profile)

Posted on 8/14/2009 10:27:55 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Original NSX was not FWD it was midengine rear wheel drive

Problem isn't that they CANNOT compete. They are quite capable of creating a great car. Problem is they choose NOT to compete. The reasons are not exactly clear to me. It probably would make a good subject in a business class.

— SpicyMikey (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 5:46:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Acura needs to at the very least save the drivetrain, not for a sports car but for a real rear-drive flagship.

— theoptimisticpessimist (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 6:04:45 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

It's sad, but I think it's a good thing...for now. I would have hated to see a car, which at one point was so awesome, be turned into something so ugly and scrutinized by so many (based off their current designs).

— lock (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 6:09:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

This car is stupid in these times, they need do just do a TSX and an RL coupe to take some Genesis coupe sales and call it a day.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 6:30:36 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

This car was wrong from the beginning, a front engined sucessor is not a true heir to the original NSX. This car looks like a totaly unrelated cousin from the same family tree. True NSX fans would have expected nothing less than an evolution of the original concept. Maybe they should have just created a new model and called it LSX.

— tecnopolis (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 7:07:57 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

R.I.P to one of the greatest cars of all time......for now.

— rxh8me9000 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 7:29:02 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

Of course this car is shelved.

Look at it, it's a POS.

:/

— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 8:02:12 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -8   

Let me interject here. Let me throw an idea out to Honda. In case they have not noticed the Pony Car revival has begun. Wouldn't it be interesting if Honda built a front-engine rear-drvie car to compete with the Camaro/Mustang/Challenger/Genesis set? They have the know-how. I say use the Accord chassis, bolt in the rear axle from the AWD system in the MDX, but deleting the front drive mechanicals (Ford did it years ago with a prototype Escort RS2000...transverse engine, rear drive). If on a shoe-string budget, they could easily do a stretched hard top S2000, offer their 5 cylinder engine (not sure a V6 would fit between the wheel wells), bore or stroke it to an even 3.0L and then bolt on a turbocharger for 300+hp fun in the sun. Done deal.

— tango (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 8:31:23 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Honda needs to start from bottom up. They need something against 335 and 370Z. If it goes well, then you come up w/ a 911 level competitor. I feel HONDA's just unclear about their goal now.

— dlin (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 9:48:33 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Sorry, but Acura, you guys officially suck now.

Ditching the NSX project speaks volumes about their mindset. They really don't offer anything that isn't done better somewhere else.

The last good car was the RL, but even that was ruined by the refresh that added the stupid grille treatment.

The cars are absent of any cool tech or unique features. If they don't want to offer a V8, fine. No sports cars, that's fine too. But you gotta give people something. Acura should have been first with something like the new XJ and Range Rover's video insturmentation. If you give people boring exteriors, at least have some awesome interiors or something.

They don't have a sense of where they're going, and don't have enough sense to look at their successes from the past. I don't really see them lasting as a brand for the long term.

— answer (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 10:32:55 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

"it couldn’t be too far removed” from Acura’s other products"

Shouldn't the NSX be head and shoulders above other Acura's to elevate and give its image a boost?

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/13/2009 11:13:36 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

There's one of two things going on:

1. They're trying to be that car company that, by doing things other companies aren't doing, they give the perception that they're one step ahead of the competition. Or one step to the side of the competition where buyers would have clear and distinct choices against the competition without mudding the product waters. In many ways, it's worked for Honda and Acura in the past. But not in the recent years.

2. They're scared. They fear failure of putting their products directly head to head with the competition. Unlike Infiniti and Lexus who seem, for the most part, to create products that are direct targets for other products on the market.

Look at these examples which could support either argument:
G37 and IS go head to head with 3Series, A4, CTS, yet TL goes in a different direction

M and GS go head to head with 5Series, E Class, A6, and XF, yet RL goes in a very different, and lost, direction

LS goes head to head with S Class, 7 Series, A8, XJ, yet Acura has no car in this realm

GT-R and soon to be LF-A brazenly take on Corvette, Viper, Ferrari, Porsche, maybe Aston Martin, yet Acura gone into the fetal position with the NSX

And what is the competition for the TSX, really? May as well be an Accord.

The only product Acura seems to have confidence in is the MDX which takes on the likes of Q7, X5, M Class, RX. The only thing is lacks is a V-8 option to match some of those models' higher-output upgrades. Which is, in a way, a logic with points 1 and 2 above.

To me, it's disappointing. I've been an Acura fan for 20 years. Outside of maybe the MDX, nothing interests me in the stable any longer.

— senorgato (View Profile)

Posted on 8/14/2009 1:08:38 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Sad, they shelved it before we even got a look to see what it might look like...Oh, well, it had the same basic shape as the LF-A. Would have been nice to see two Japanese V10 go at it. And to see whose application was better.

— Inline6 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/14/2009 1:55:42 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Not true, the Integra R was a well built sports vehicle.

— StarSearch (View Profile)

Posted on 8/14/2009 10:28:43 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

^^ Comments like this is why I dislike this site anyone with sense knows that tech is Acura thing proballly the best in the buisness for innovation like most magazines state the TL is a "techno geeks dream". Tech package includes HDD, bluetooh music streamline, ipod direct interface, xm weather with doppler radar industry first xm traffic, surround sound audio and plenty of other useful tech that Infiniti and Lexus are just now introducing Lexus to more extent, example the TL stores more songs on the HDD than Lexus flagship the LS which also is currently the only Lexus with these features which appear to finally be added to the 2010 models based on a recent post on this site. The ZDX and the revised MDX will further advance Acura and raise the bar in technology.
Jaguar did event something new and nice with the virtual gauge but I gurantee it will break Acura does not put tech in their cars if they know it will break. Example in C&D recent test drive of the XF it was noted that the pop up shifter was stuck while attempting a 3 point turn. LOL. If Acura/Hond wanted to build this they could it is buisness decisions like this why Honda remain profitable in an unstable car industry after all Motor Trend named the original NSX the greatest sports car every built.
1-2-3 let the hating began "Advance"

— mikeydred20 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/14/2009 9:12:29 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

"Wow, you are delusional. Did you see the "Winding Roads" comparison of the Genesis Coupe to it's real competition. The Civic Coupe. And the Civic Si Coupe handed the Genesis it's ass in the comparison."


Well Invisible, Yeah they tested the 2.0 against the Coupe, and the only reason why it lost was the Typical Sloppy Hyundai Manual shifter (why judge that when 95% of Hyundai owners get the Auto anyway) You must have not read that the Hyundai is faster, the Interior is heads and above the Civic SI with its economy car interior. You must have not also read that the Hyundai is not sporty, but it makes up for in it refinement and premium equippment.

The Genesis Coupe 2.0 takes up the Higher end Tiburon buyers spot, while the 3.8 with 100 more horsepower was built to be the G35 fighter. It doesnt fight the Infinti too much i will admit, but it has done something else. That is, BECOME THE NEW FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION ACURA NSX!!!!

Well if you guys want an Acura NSX so bad and cant get one new, consider the Genesis Coupe.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 8/16/2009 1:52:11 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

The Veloster will be the new Integra coupe!!!

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 8/16/2009 1:56:11 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

Also remember that the NSX in its production life neve rhad as much HP as the Genesis coupe 3.8 had. At its highest Horsepower range in 2005, it had 20 less HP than the Gen Coupe 3.8 does now.

Thats right, even though the Genesis coupe 3.8 is an imporvement over the NSX in every way, you guys wouldnt buy it becuase its a Hyundai.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 8/16/2009 2:00:52 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

Too bad, a reliable sports car gone. There styling on the rest of there cars could defiantly improve.

— truckman (View Profile)

Posted on 8/17/2009 11:24:08 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

"Question for hyundaismokescrack,
Back in 1989 when the NSX came out, what was the HP in Hyundai's sportyish tincan?"


Hyundai was a baby back then. Thats like comparing Honda of 1970 with VW of 1970. Honda/Acura of today will be Hyundai in 2030=overpriced, and fastly declining quality in some models, when Chinese and Indian makes have caught up enough to be able to do the same stuff for thousands less, and have better reliablity.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2009 6:01:04 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1