Metcalfe reviews NSX

[NoelWatson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfCh5zZvlpU

[goldnsx]

I had to stop viewing it because of the absolutly terrible sound quality...Too sad as the guy is a good representer.

Nice to see him looking for the release of the front hood. But hard to see how harsh he lets drop the engine cover.

[NZNick]

Nice review, even if old Harry did spend a lot of the time on stuff which isn't relevant to how good these cars were / still are.

Is MY05NSX the Honda UK press car that was crashed and rebuilt few years back?

Is NSX999 the current Honda UK press demonstrator - I thought I saw it in the Goodwood coverage recently?

Will part 2 with the NC1 NSX be available soon - next week presumably?

[pralognan]

Harry should have spent 2 minutes checking the specification of the NSX. "avoid the 3 speed auto","air con.optional","ABS optional"

[NSX 2000]

Nice review, even if old Harry did spend a lot of the time on stuff which isn't relevant to how good these cars are / still were.

Is MY05NSX the Honda UK press car that was crashed and rebuilt few years back?

Is NSX999 the current Honda UK press demonstrator - I thought I saw it in the Goodwood coverage recently?

Will part 2 with the NC1 NSX be available soon - next week presumably?

Q1 correct, it is a Honda UK press car, that was crashed and rebuilt a year or 2 back

Q2 correct, this is a Honda UK press car, and yes it was at Goodwood.

Q3 no idea.

HTH

[NZNick]

Thanks!

So not all the cars in Harry's garage belong to Harry. He's not quite Jay Leno.....

Honda UK picked a great colour for their current fleet.

[goldnsx]

That's how advertising works today. Having watched a few videos with Jay Leno his garage is just a marketing plattform and Jay Leno is just a marionette of the companys who pay him for advertising their product. It's a pretty simple approach. The more amateur it looks (bad sound) the more authentic it seems to be. The question is HOW much Honda payed here and there to play the game. If I'd do a video on the car and speak positively about it and compare it to the old one would Honda lend me one for a week?

[hkz286]

That's how advertising works today. Having watched a few videos with Jay Leno his garage is just a marketing plattform and Jay Leno is just a marionette of the companys who pay him for advertising their product. It's a pretty simple approach. The more amateur it looks (bad sound) the more authentic it seems to be. The question is HOW much Honda payed here and there to play the game. If I'd do a video on the car and speak positively about it and compare it to the old one would Honda lend me one for a week?

do you have any proof of this?

[goldnsx]

I have no proof but
- it's conspicuous that there are a lot old/new one comparisions of the NSX so I guess that the car have been chosen by Honda and that's why you see the Imola car so often. That's a particular problem of low volume cars. Not to forget that it's the press car of HUK.
- I'm not saying that Jay Leno's video are all sponsered. But some of them seem to be. While Jay Leno IS a knowledgeable car guy and likes to show-off on TV and youtube his garage IS an attractive place to show-off a new car. So everybody wants to bring his new car in for testing, well, advertising.
- The US guys are pros in hiding advertisement.
- Harry and Jay are actually on the better end of the quality of videos. At the other end there are quite dumb ones esp. from Germany like racing a car against a bike. WTH does offer me youtube a video of two self-exposer as being the most relevant? It's not the video with the most hits. After watching such low quality videos I could always cuff myself for waisting the time watching them. Of course, the testers are standing well in front of the cars they've tested.
- The storyline in the low quality video is worse than in every porn movie, ok exaggerating.
- there are people out there making their living with offering a advertising plattform, it's a business model. The manufacturers choose the ones with the highest hits, unfortunately not always the ones with the highest quality.
- the bad thing is that Honda has to play the game as the car sells slowly and can't be choosy about the channel.