Honda NSX (1990)
The Honda NSX is a sports car that was originally produced between 1990 and 2005 by the Japanese automaker Honda. It was equipped with a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout, powered by an all-aluminium V6 gasoline (petrol) engine featuring Honda'sVariable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC) system.
Brazilian Formula One World Champion Ayrton Senna, for whom Honda had powered all three of his world championship-winning Formula One race cars before his death in 1994, was considered Honda's main innovator in convincing the company to stiffen the NSX chassis further. Senna was given two cars by Honda. The newer one, a black 1993 model, license plate BSS-8888 (the letters meaning Beco - a childhood nickname - Senna Silva and the number 8 is a reference to his first F1 championship in 1988) is still in his family's possession.
The Honda NSX went on sale in Japan in 1990 at Honda Verno dealership sales channels.
One of the first magazine articles to offer NSX test data showed the lightweight 3.0L 270 bhp (200 kW) NSX producing a best 0-60 mp/h time of 5.03 seconds and 13.47 seconds for the quarter mile.
Wheels magazine Australia awarded the Honda NSX the 1991 Car of the Year award, and the Acura-badged car was Automobile Magazine's Automobile of the Year that same year. Motor Trend proclaimed "this Honda/Acura was good. No, it was better than that--it was great. Ferrari, Porsche, and Jaguar had been put on notice. The all-aluminum NSX -- partially developed at the Nuerburgring -- was better in every way".
Nonda NSX 1990 - AUTOart Signature - 1/18
Limited Edition Nr. 1778
Limited Edition Nr. 1778