Quote Originally Posted by Heineken View Post
It seems whenever I see and auction my eyes are caught by electronic and/or audio topics
I listened to a podcast recently in which an American journalist recounted their experience of driving an NA1 NSX-R for the first time. They loved it, but apparently the km/h speedo was under-reading to the extent that they thought it was in mph.

"Aha," I thought "I know what that is . . . "


By comparison with the Ferrari and Porsche markets, the NSX market seems to be small enough/ordinary enough that the specialists and historians pass it by. Were these cars in an equivalent of those markets then there would be a tremendous hue and cry over matching engine and chassis numbers, original paint, whether the car was certified by a nebulous body validating that all of the accessories exactly match the spec sheet hewn into a stone tablet and installed into the frunk by a mythical superman, without which the car could not possibly be sold; there would be specialists aplenty to repair your VANOS, your cooling pipes, your bore-scoring, your wonky bearings, your cracked exhaust manifolds and your sticky buttons.

Yet for the NSX that doesn't happen. Those who know the issues in enough detail to comment on them seem to already own the cars.

I guess it's a further extension of the problem that's plagued the NSX its whole life - it just doesn't have the same kind of prestige that you get from having a horse on your badge.