A Victim Of "Reaching Too High": Acura Decides To Shelve The NSX

Sad........

We will see how long they shelve it when the Lexus LF-A drops!!!!!!!!

"We will see how long they shelve it IF the Lexus LF-A drops!!!!!!!!"

Fixed that for you.

Someone should tell them it's a good thing to be far removed from some of acura's products

Acura has totally been a disappointment for me.

Nothing currently in their lineup is appealing to me, except maybe the MDX which is a good SUV, but just not for me. They had so much promise and could have done so much more but they blew it.

Acura has went down hill in the past few years. All with the new generation styling. I still love the old NSX, even when I see one now I think it looks great. It's a shame because Acura makes nice cars, just that their styling has went south in my opinion. The chrome grille thing they are doing on their new models needs to stop.

I've stopped listening. Next month they'll say something different. Acura has become the leaders in vaporcars. It's obvious there is no one over there with a vision of what Acura should be so they just keep talking (out loud) about ideas. It's one of the stranger stories in this industry.

Lexus has more say to Toyota than Acura has to Honda.
That is the problem of Acura. It does not control its own destination (product planning, etc.). It takes whatever Honda is willing to give them. That is not the way to run a new brand. Honda is trying too hard to save cost, not the best way to run a luxury brand.

Mitchell, do you even know what you're talking about first off, do you even know the history of the Nissan GT-R before the car came out in the U.S. The GTR has always set the bar in Japan (known as the Skyline GT-R). The new and upcoming LF-A will not surpass what the GT-R has ever achieved. Next you must be really young since everyone who know's what the NSX would know that the mid engine NSX is RWD.

Micthell is autospies's village idiot, pay him some respect as he is mentally disabled.

Original NSX was not FWD it was midengine rear wheel drive

Problem isn't that they CANNOT compete. They are quite capable of creating a great car. Problem is they choose NOT to compete. The reasons are not exactly clear to me. It probably would make a good subject in a business class.

I am not an acura fan by any stretch of the imagination, but you are correct. Its not that they cannot compete, they are just choosing not to compete. They could incorporate all the racing technology/know-how from their ALMS prototype/F1 vehicles into the NSX and make something that will be so much more technologically advance and superior performance to the GT-R/LF-A, but its just a matter of whether or not it will be cost effective or in the best interest of the company...

Acura needs to at the very least save the drivetrain, not for a sports car but for a real rear-drive flagship.

Now that is the truth. Also they need to get a V8 already or atleat Turbo charge that 3.7 V6

It's sad, but I think it's a good thing...for now. I would have hated to see a car, which at one point was so awesome, be turned into something so ugly and scrutinized by so many (based off their current designs).

This car was wrong from the beginning, a front engined sucessor is not a true heir to the original NSX. This car looks like a totaly unrelated cousin from the same family tree. True NSX fans would have expected nothing less than an evolution of the original concept. Maybe they should have just created a new model and called it LSX.

R.I.P to one of the greatest cars of all time......for now.

Of course this car is shelved.

Look at it, it's a POS.

:/

Let me interject here. Let me throw an idea out to Honda. In case they have not noticed the Pony Car revival has begun. Wouldn't it be interesting if Honda built a front-engine rear-drvie car to compete with the Camaro/Mustang/Challenger/Genesis set? They have the know-how. I say use the Accord chassis, bolt in the rear axle from the AWD system in the MDX, but deleting the front drive mechanicals (Ford did it years ago with a prototype Escort RS2000...transverse engine, rear drive). If on a shoe-string budget, they could easily do a stretched hard top S2000, offer their 5 cylinder engine (not sure a V6 would fit between the wheel wells), bore or stroke it to an even 3.0L and then bolt on a turbocharger for 300+hp fun in the sun. Done deal.

Honda needs to start from bottom up. They need something against 335 and 370Z. If it goes well, then you come up w/ a 911 level competitor. I feel HONDA's just unclear about their goal now.

Sorry, but Acura, you guys officially suck now.

Ditching the NSX project speaks volumes about their mindset. They really don't offer anything that isn't done better somewhere else.

The last good car was the RL, but even that was ruined by the refresh that added the stupid grille treatment.

The cars are absent of any cool tech or unique features. If they don't want to offer a V8, fine. No sports cars, that's fine too. But you gotta give people something. Acura should have been first with something like the new XJ and Range Rover's video insturmentation. If you give people boring exteriors, at least have some awesome interiors or something.

They don't have a sense of where they're going, and don't have enough sense to look at their successes from the past. I don't really see them lasting as a brand for the long term.

^^ Comments like this is why I dislike this site anyone with sense knows that tech is Acura thing proballly the best in the buisness for innovation like most magazines state the TL is a "techno geeks dream". Tech package includes HDD, bluetooh music streamline, ipod direct interface, xm weather with doppler radar industry first xm traffic, surround sound audio and plenty of other useful tech that Infiniti and Lexus are just now introducing Lexus to more extent, example the TL stores more songs on the HDD than Lexus flagship the LS which also is currently the only Lexus with these features which appear to finally be added to the 2010 models based on a recent post on this site. The ZDX and the revised MDX will further advance Acura and raise the bar in technology.
Jaguar did event something new and nice with the virtual gauge but I gurantee it will break Acura does not put tech in their cars if they know it will break. Example in C&D recent test drive of the XF it was noted that the pop up shifter was stuck while attempting a 3 point turn. LOL. If Acura/Hond wanted to build this they could it is buisness decisions like this why Honda remain profitable in an unstable car industry after all Motor Trend named the original NSX the greatest sports car every built.
1-2-3 let the hating began "Advance"

Hyundai smoke, the Genesis coupe doesn't have very good suspension, weighs 300lbs more and has it's cog placed a foot higher then the nsx... no, saying the genesis is the new nsx is like saying the chevy cobalt is the new 2000gt... but at least the cobalt can out handle the 2000gt.

Too bad, a reliable sports car gone. There styling on the rest of there cars could defiantly improve.