Before next week’s Tire Rack SCCA Solo Nationals, this past weekend Tom O'Gorman ran a borrowed Acura NSX on Yokohama tires at UMI's King of the Mountain. A $25,000 purse sat on the line.
I tried to carry a "high hopes, low expectations" mindset into the event. My past experience with the car said it should be able to be competitive, …
I feel like I'm in a minority because I actually like the the second-gen NSX (even if I would have preferred something more like the original). That said, color me surprised it did so well in an autocross setting. Especially against much lighter and more prepped machines.
Also, I'd be interested to hear Tom's review of how it behaved with all the nannies turned off. Any waywardness show up that he had to drive around?
I love the 2nd gen NSX's.
I'm hoping they follow a similar trend to the first ones: while they're being manufactured everyone thinks they're lame and they can buy car 'x' that's so much better, pricing dips into much more affordable territory (this is where I'll pick one up), and then 15 years later everyone realizes they're the bee's knees.
Mine would be white or that orange color. Or maybe I'll pick up one of the Type S's that are coming out....
It's heavy, but it's also awd with turbo and electric motor torque and the courses there have at least a few low speed corners to dig out of. Telsas have done pretty well there in the past (overall runner up in the first year and class runner up to Tom this year) so it's not too surprising.
In reply to Matt B (fs) :
Er, I would say it did so well because of the driver mod vs inherit chassis advantage. 4k lbs on an autoX course is still 4k lbs.
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