NSX-R on topgear?

[Fantuzzi]

Am I going completely mad or did Clarkson review the NSX-R in one of the early naughties episodes?

I remember quite clearly seeing the review on an episode shown on Dave a few years ago, jogged my memory when I was watching not the nine o'clock news, as Clarkson mentioned he was cut up by a person in a NSX, and when he looked over at the driver it was Rowan Akinson

Searched on the internet, cant find anything apart from Tiff reviewing the NSX.

Just wondering if it actaully was a review or maybe it was just a fleeting reference in the show.

Thanks!

[rix]

Think it was at the Laguna Seca IIRC?

[rix]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWCXfwTvhI

[qureshia]

They defo did the white nsx type r ...Hammond went on about them saving grams on the gear stick gaitor ...

I think they did a comparison with 911 gt3


Series 3 episode 9 ...

Edited by qureshia on Saturday 31st March 21:48

Edited by qureshia on Saturday 31st March 21:55

[Fantuzzi]

Sorry should have said it wasnt the video game one!

Found its series 1 episode 6, but only a hot lap, not review!

Edited by Fantuzzi on Saturday 31st March 22:00

[Fantuzzi]

Found it!

Thanks for the help, it was the third series and episode 9,

http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/r-shootout

[Grovsie26]

rix said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWCXfwTvhI

Thats not an R mate.

[DriveAfterDark]

Grovsie26 said:

rix said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWCXfwTvhI

Thats not an R mate.

It looks like he tested the NSX-R in the game (the rear wing is Type R), and used an Acura NSX on the Laguna Seca. AFAIK, the 2002+ facelift NSX's in USA were only delivered in Targa, so top the difference of, it seems he tested the very lightweight NSX-R in the game and the somewhat heavy (1440 kg.) NSX Targa on the track... (Btw. there isn't any significant difference between USDM Acura NSX and Honda NSX)

I'm a big NSX fan and I think they should have done a proper test on the NSX-R, not that hypocrite BS Hammond presented (he complained about excessive weight saving on the NSX-R but we all know he's a big 911 GT3 RS fan where the cars even use sticker logos to save weight!).
I know Japanese tests are biased, but most of them point out that because of the stupid Japanese rule of max 280 hp, the Honda engineers only had corners to better lap times on. So that's one of the reasons the NSX-R's are supposed to be absolutely brilliant handling wise.

One cool thing is that the NSX-R engines were blueprinted and rumors has it most of them actually made approx 330 hp. Some of the guys at NSXPrime.com (biggest NSX forum) even got 320+ hp from their regular 2002+ facelift NSX's, as it is rumored that many left over NSX-R engines were put in regular cars.

These cars are gems.

[stephen300o]

A shame the weather was so bad when they did the lap, she never had a chance at decent time with those cut slicks on.

[elementad]

They had an NSX R on it on the same feature/episode that they reviewed the EP3 Type R facelift years ago. I can't remember what they were saying but as someone said above they mentioned mesh below the gear stick as a weight saving extreme.

A quick google search led me to this although I can't watch on my iPhone due to frigging flash plugin.

http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-gear-review-of...

[caraddict]

stephen300o said:

A shame the weather was so bad when they did the lap, she never had a chance at decent time with those cut slicks on.

Totally agree. I really want to see this happen......

[melvster]

The NSX-R which appeared on the show is the only UK NSX-R, the owner was looking to sell it last year, he wanted circa £100k.

[silver surfer]

melvster said:

The NSX-R which appeared on the show is the only UK NSX-R, the owner was looking to sell it last year, he wanted circa £100k.

The owner did sell it...

Keep up.

SS

[LongLiveTazio]

silver surfer said:

The owner did sell it...

Keep up.

SS

Charming!

Anyway...

Now that the second edition R is 10 years old are any starting to be imported yet?

[muffinmenace]

LongLiveTazio said:

Charming!

Anyway...

Now that the second edition R is 10 years old are any starting to be imported yet?

They're all going to HK

[dobly]

The only people that both can afford and have heard of the 02+ NSX-R are in HK:

http://vogue-sports.com/stock/detail.php?r_shop=17...

30,000,000 JPY is 244k quid, and also more than twice what the car cost new back in 2003 (or 2006 in the case of this one) !!!

[melvster]

dobly said:

The only people that both can afford and have heard of the 02+ NSX-R are in HK:

http://vogue-sports.com/stock/detail.php?r_shop=17...

30,000,000 JPY is 244k quid, and also more than twice what the car cost new back in 2003 (or 2006 in the case of this one) !!!

Yeah but it is absolutely gorgeous, i would fly over to Tokyo if i won big money and bring it back to the UK.