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[Rods2]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-3297031/The-supercar-man-Test-drive-new-Honda-NSX.html

[Mr Gav]

Not very pretty is it 

[STEMO]

Not very pretty is it 

I could live with it.

[Mr Gav]

Not very pretty is it 

I could live with it.

I prefer the old one 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Not very pretty is it 

I could live with it.

A bit of a come down from your Astra though.

[STEMO]

Not very pretty is it 

I could live with it.

A bit of a come down from your Astra though.

Yes, and even though it has 500bhp, it is slightly less thirsty than your aged Vauxhall.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Not very pretty is it 

I could live with it.

A bit of a come down from your Astra though.

Yes, and even though it has 500bhp, it is slightly less thirsty than your aged Vauxhall.

Perhaps.......but the mighty Signum will make the girls wet with desire. No boring old Honda can do that.

[Stallion]

I like it  if i squint looks like angelina jolie..

[STEMO]

Not very pretty is it 

I could live with it.

A bit of a come down from your Astra though.

Yes, and even though it has 500bhp, it is slightly less thirsty than your aged Vauxhall.

Perhaps.......but the mighty Signum will make the girls wet with desire. No boring old Honda can do that.

The only way the signum would dampen the damsels is if they peed themselves laughing at it.

[Mr Gav]

I like it  if i squint looks like angelina jolie..

How hard do you have to squint to achieve that 

[STEMO]

I like it  if i squint looks like angelina jolie..

How hard do you have to squint to achieve that 

A lot. Like a chinaman pulling himself off. 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Fugly, like almost all modern cars.

[Nick W]

Not very pretty is it 

The original isn't pretty, just purposeful.

The new one has a much harder job to do, as the Audi R8 is aa good modern interpretation of the original. Although it is even less pretty.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

The era the original NSX was born into the late 80s, clean, simple, often blocky styling was the thing, which was starting to be smoothed out, compare a Mk II to a MK III cavalier to see the massive difference. Uncluttered was just around the corner, stylistically the original sits sort of in between a F40 and a XJ220.

Nowadays, we have excessive style for style's sake. The car world is full of overly technical fussy-styled affairs like BMW i8, Lexus NX, even your run of the mill hatch is a Nissan Juke. Clean designs like XFs, and DB9s are few and far between.

I'd have liked to have seen something cleaner and more graceful like a Porsche 928 but then again it would have been accused of looking 'too similar' to the original. And for me a 'retro' affair like a Mini, or a deliberate harking back to a previous shape as with the Merc SLS would be wrong, given the ethos of the NSX is to push forward, and advance technology. The F Type follows the E Type legend well, without really having a single stylistic cue from its spiritual precursor, even though you think it does. It looks like a new Jag, but I suspect even the old boys who once nicked E type brochures from the dealer in the 60s wouldn't be against its looks. The NSX is designed to stretch the skinny jeans of the boys reading Autocar on their tablets, and be flashy/blingy enough to make comparatively dull the CL-Coupes and R8s at the golf club/Michelin restaurant car park these shall eventually reside.

There's a litte of the old NSX in its 'flavour', without actually trying to copy. It is its own animal, not trying to be otherwise. 

[Mr Gav]

Not very pretty is it 

The original isn't pretty, just purposeful.

I thought the original was quite nice