From my mentor: 'Remember, with great power, comes great responsibility' K.Cooke 2007
****1997 3.2 Orange / Black SOLD****
Previously driven by.........
Jeremy Clarkson, Tim Harvey, Richard Burns (RIP), Jason Plato, Harvey Postlethwaite (RIP), Manfred Wollgarten, Dirk Schoysman, Barrie Williams.
Nurburgring lap time 8:38 - Honda NSX (sport auto, 08/97)
The parts is coming from other car. We had this car for years and now is taken apart. To break apart Ben's car would be a big mistake.So now its ready for full re-spray.
I do agree you have to be honest about these cars then you selling it, but all these insurance categories for me personally don't mean anything as long as the car re-paired in proper way.
Why and how insurance companies doing quick write-offs for NSX cars, because we all probably know the prices for parts in Honda dealers. So its much cheaper at most times just put a category D,C or B and re-pay the money for owner. There is nobody probably could explain how they choose the category for that particular car. In past i have seen nearly full fire damaged ones with category D and cars with few scratches around with category B.
Category A: Scrap only (i.e. with few or no economically salvageable parts and which is of value only for scrap metal
Category B: Break for spare parts if economically viable (excluding any residual scrap value)
Category C: Repairable total loss vehicles where repair costs including VAT exceed the vehicle's pre-accident value
Category D: Repairable total loss vehicle where repair costs including VAT do not exceed the vehicle's pre-accident value
I know what you're trying to say, but that doesn't add up.
Cheers,
James.
I am Godzilla, you are Japan!
My next door neighbour's brother was (up until recently) the General Manager of Honda UK.
I asked him the same question once and he very kindly provided me with the details of the number of NSXs sold each year.
The grand total was 491.
Gary
1998S 3.2 red/black manual 4 years of great memories
2004 54 red/red manual
---------------------------------------------------
Quote autocar Nov 2005
"Before the NSX supercars were crap"
This sounds about right as the list below is only upto 2002, as this is when I started to look into NSX ownership.
Year Sales
1991 125
1992 41
1993 47
1994 19
1995 55
1996 38
1997 35
1998 10
1999 17
2000 11
2001 8
2002 23 (sold so far)
2003 ?
2004 ?
2005 ? (But we know they sold at least 12)
2005 NA2 NSX, Berlina Black with full red leather interior.
2016 NC1 NSX, Casino White Pearl with red semi-aniline leather and alcantara.
The missing years are:
2002 23
2003 20
2004 17
2005 24
2006 1
2007 0
Gary
****1997 3.2 Orange / Black SOLD****
Previously driven by.........
Jeremy Clarkson, Tim Harvey, Richard Burns (RIP), Jason Plato, Harvey Postlethwaite (RIP), Manfred Wollgarten, Dirk Schoysman, Barrie Williams.
Nurburgring lap time 8:38 - Honda NSX (sport auto, 08/97)
Is that the one that was being sold in Scotland a couple of years ago? Maybe it was light grey or dark silver?
1999 3.2 Manual 6 Spd Coupe
Honda's Finest Hour