Hi all
i really like how my nsx drives, how it appears to have that almost indefineable 'something' that makes it truly feel magical to drive, even in comparasin to other, more modern cars.
im referring to the driving experience as a whole, rather than outright performance as many hatches today can do the numbers!
two examples I can remember recently-
- driving my friends gallardo for the weekend. ' don't do it' I was told 'it'll make your nsx feel like a civic' but you know what? It didn't. It made a big noise and certainly had the performance, but I felt the steering artificial, the 4 wheel drive detracting from the experience and the ride quite hard, even for a sports car due to the mandatory huge wheels and low profile tyres. It was definitely faster, but strangely not definably so. Getting back in the nsx the car felt keener to respond, light footed and what ever the performance difference was more than made up for with the higher pitched more frenetic engine note. I was expecting to love the gallardo, for it to become my 'must have' car and a worthy replacement or step up from the nsx. But for all that is and for what you'd pay, it just isn't.
- I test drove a gtr. It felt massive and capable and very video game like. I drove roads considerably faster than ever before quite effortlessly, feeling at the time a great rush at doing so, but even on the next time through the same roads the excitement was replaced with a feeling more like, 'ah, so this is what this does'. Effective, but unemotive.
These are just two examples, there are many more!
What have you driven that has reinforced the nsx as a superlative drivers car, and what is the 'magic' in how one covers the ground in the right hands, I still can't put my finger on it!
But I do love it......