john banks

Brendan Hughes

I have a vision. I see... a padlock...

MattOz

If at any time anyone wants to actually get this thread back on topic, feel free.

Matt

Andy Porter

I will Matt, how did you come about getting the car for a week, competition ?

Duck_Pond

Autocar I think he said...

MattOz

Hi Andy.

It was an Autocar competition run last year. The prize was in 3 parts, one of which was to have the NSX for a week. I was meant to have one last September, but the 3 that Honda UK had on their fleet were all stuffed at about the same time. They offered me an S2000 instead, but I said I'd wait for an NSX to be available!

Matt

Andy Porter

Just re-read and still cant see a mention of autocar

Bloody brilliant prize I'd say, dont blame you for waiting, s2000 vs NSX, no contest

The_Gza

Enjoyed your write up and the pics Matt - that's one prize I'd loved to have won!

skoosh

Matt, I had a good look at the NSX at the coventry meet last weekend ( I was in white wagon ) and I have to say it was a car with alot of presence and a superb stance, macho but svelte, I'd have one tomorrow.

One observation that you may have noticed, both front and rear bumper covers were a completely different shade of red from main carriagework, did they have some sort of armour-cover on them?

Always been a fan of the NSX and indeed nearly took the plunge a few years ago until I did a "proper" HPi check.

How did you get it for 7 days then.................?

Skoosh.

psoctorwho.........**** off back to your bridge and play with Billy Evans.

Mossman

Hi Matt,

What a great prize and great pics? Hope you are available to clean my cars at the weekend! Stunning.

Best,

Mossman

Cyberevo

iTrader: (1)

Matt, did you say you lived in Leamington? I live in Warwick and also have a VTEC, i'm afraid it's only a DC5, I would love to try out na nsx though so if you ever get hold of one again pm me and I'll let you take the DC5 for a spin in exchange.

Was it the NSX Type R or standard NSX?

carl

Pity about the headlights though. If I could afford a current one, I'd swap out the lights for some of the popup ones from the earlier cars.

bloke

Anyway,moving on...

Although I agree with Brendan about the looks I love what the NSX can do, and as an S2000 owner it does enter my head as the next step.

Glad you enjoyed it Matt

Blow Dog

wow very nice Matt - had my eye on an NSX-R recently.
Just one of those cars I want to own before I die I suppose.

Nice job.

Cem

Iwan

A bit OT but a few years ago a mate was taking me and another mate out (seperately) for demo rides in his Lamborghini Countach. We got back from a drive and he left me sitting in it while he popped in to the house to answer the call of nature.

So I'm sitting in this Lambo in the middle of Marlborough (midnight ish) and a group of 8 or 9 people walk past, the women are all swooning and cooing over it and one of the blokes pipes up "oh yeah it's just some w@nker in a kitcar - probably got a VW Beetle engine - w@nker".

So I started it up and gave it a few blips.

Of course, then I was a "flash ****", the women liked it though.

MattOz

Skoosh,

Know what you mean about the bumpers. Seems that the paint on plastic has a different shade to that on aluminium. No surprise there then! The other NSX's that I've seen have been the same. Wonder why Honda can't get it 100% right.

Cem,

NSX Type R! Lovely. I'd have one tomorrow if I could. I just don't think I'd fit in it! The standard car was just about OK, but the R has seats that intrude on headroom even more. You'd be OK though!

Mossman,

Thanks for the comment! Was a fantastic car.

Matt

Jap2Scrap

I was driving one of these last night and thought it was pants. The Maranello I'd been driving in the previous rounds was far superior.

More Project Gotham 2 later

Seriously nice looking car mind