Is The 2017 Acura NSX The Answer For Those Wanting A Hypercar On A R8 Budget?

The NSX will sell to the people who gotta have the latest thing and then sales will plunge.

I believe the NSX will sell primarily to serious Honda/Acura fans with deep pockets. I have a hard time picturing someone going "Lemme see... I could get a Ferrari... or I could save a whack of cash and get an NSX instead... what should I do? What should I do?"

It's saying something when 009 posts an article about an Acura without some backhanded, snarky comment included in the title.

Love this guy's review and his commentary.

And let me just say that the Valencia Red Pearl of the tracked car is absolutely gorgeous. This car isn't intended to sell in volumes based on its price point, but Acura has made some really spot-on decisions with it. I agree with the reviewer's comments on the interior which could use some sprucing up.

At well over $160K, it is inappropriate to use the word "budget."
Budget connotes an economical control to reduce expenditure. Spending well over $160K is not an economical purchase for most anyone.

And at $160K do you really want to buy a Honda?

skytop: Your (mis)understanding of the word "budget" is similar to Christian fundamentalists who cite that Evolution Theory "is only a theory" (their (mis)understanding of "theory": an unproven, wild-assed notion, like a flat earth theory, rather than a discipline of a field of study, like Music Theory).

A financial budget is a limited financial spend. If you live in the US, you will notice that we speak of an "annual federal budget" that's in the TRILLIONS of dollars. Similarly, medium and large corporations don't have unlimited spending ability. They, too, have spending budgets in the millions, and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars. Apple computer's annual budget, for example, is measured in Billions of dollars.

So when an affluent car shopper is planning their next car, their spending limit might be "below $180,000", not because they are poor, or because they are trying to live modestly, but because that's all they have CHOSEN or ABLE to spend on their car purchase. So yeah, it's perfectly valid to say "I'm getting a new car, but my budget limits me to a maximum of $160,000."

Wow. You must spend a lot of Friday nights alone with your cat. :-)

Every time I spend a Friday night alone with my cat another child shows up 9 months later. :)

Big yup :-)