Honda NSX in NZ

[dobly]

Quick question - how many Honda NSX are there in NZ? I have not seen one on the road since moving here from the UK back in 2002.
I have only seen a couple of autos on trademe. Are there any manual cars around? Any NA2s at all? I seem to remember that they were listed for sale in the Honda NZ advert in the Herald each Saturday until 2005 at something like $225k....... so presumably Honda dealers are equipped to service them...
I would really like to import one from Japan, but as the prices there are so high at the moment I have been looking at the UK market, where prices are more reasonable.
Any owners out there - please get in touch.

Cheers,

Dobly

Edited by dobly on Wednesday 11th August 07:39

[Kiwi Carguy]

Welcome to PH.

There are a few here.

This was the latest manual advertised and looked a nice example http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cac...

I also remember a very nice NZ New yellow one being listed and I think a Red one too.

Ask the guys here as they would more than likely know http://nzhondas.com/forum/

[SkylineObsession]

Couple of years back i saw a nice red on in Southern Honda's in Dunedin. Went in to have a look at it (rather low!). Then a few weeks or so later it drove past me going the other way on some twisties - looks MUCH better when its in motion!

Other than that though i've never seen one.

[dobly]

Thanks for the responses so far.

Looks like I'll be taking a stroll down to Southern Honda to ask a few questions....

[mark387mw]

I'm quite keen on the NSX and bought a Corvette over one about 7 years ago back in the UK. I'd still like one but keep veering towards the Corvette as a more durable car, and for the same money the Corvette would be newer. Please correct if I'm wrong about durability. The green automatic NSX is still on TradeMe but I think I'd prefer the manual, however that is more for resale/desirabilty.

I like this http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2303754.htm at £21,995 would be $46,000 plus shipping and taxes. Is it viable? Now that there is an NSX thread going, http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... perhaps UK prices will get firmer.
Any examples of prices in Japan??

[dobly]

Here are a couple of rather special NSX from Japan http://www.tradecarview.com/used_car/japan%20car/h... , http://www.tradecarview.com/used_car/japan%20car/h... - you can see from the prices that they are not cheap !! Another one http://exchange.goo-net.com/usedcars/spread/700055... is a later year regular NSX (non Type-S). None of them are the facelift 02+ model - prices for these are often as much if not more than the price on release in Japan !!

[mark387mw]

So the ones in UK at £21,995 seem good value. Have to restart the container from UK thread.

[dobly]

Yep - the manual purple targa in the classifieds is much less than half the price of the equivalent Japanese-sourced NSX (coupe or targa) that I would consider buying at the moment - that is the strength of the Yen at present.... (and relative weakness of the Pound).

So back to my original thought - are there any unmolested NZ-new manual NSX that are not from the first few years of production (1990-1994) ? I would obviously like as late a car as possible.

Edited by dobly on Wednesday 26th January 20:14

[Dan M]

Last year there were 3 applications made to NZTA for SIV permits for NSXs so the numbers on NZ roads will be up a bit.

I seem to remember around 2002-2004 in the UK the price of an early NSX got down as low as 10k GBP. With today's exchange rate that would be well under $30k on the road.

[Bull1t]

Dan M said:

Last year there were 3 applications made to NZTA for SIV permits for NSXs so the numbers on NZ roads will be up a bit.

Not that any of those will be for sale. I assume one of them will be Fraser's.
http://nzhondas.com/forum/build-threads/107913-nsx...

I've only ever seen one NSX in person, probably the same one mentioned above an early red auto sold twice by Southern Honda...Last I heard (several years ago) it was owned in central otago somewhere.

[Oscar the Grouch]

Theres a couple of NSX's floating around Christchurch.
I saw one in Adelaide on Sunday too, was the only remotely flash car I saw while there.
For a 20 year old car they still look good

[dobly]

A 10k GBP NSX will be an accident repaired auto with serious problems - a real bodge-job that would cost twice as much again to put right.

[SkylineObsession]

Oooh, i do have pics of it online (taken from outside).

[Gator]

I know of a red maunual one in New Plymouth.

the guy said it had a really low rev limiter and when on race tracks he kept hitting it down the back straight.

rather annoying I'd reckon.

[GravelBen]

Gator said:

I know of a red maunual one in New Plymouth.

the guy said it had a really low rev limiter and when on race tracks he kept hitting it down the back straight.

rather annoying I'd reckon.

The Jap-spec 180km/h limiter? I imagine that (as with other quick JDM cars) its not too difficult to remove it.

Peak power is at 7300rpm so I doubt the rev-limit is that low

Edited by GravelBen on Thursday 24th February 23:53