Honda Type R At 30: Driving The Icons And The Oddities | Carscoops carscoops
as the car that forced Ferrari to up its game and inspired Gordon Murray’s development of the McLaren F1, a machine that looked and sounded like a supercar, but was as reliable, well built, and as easy to drive as a Civic. What few people outside of Japan knew in the early 1990s though, is that Honda also sold an NSX that answered every criticism from sadomasochistic owners of Italian exotics that the base NSX was a little too refined .
There’s no power steering to help you shuffle that wheel around at parking speeds, and it feels heavy to wimpy modern arms. But once you’re rolling the weighting is perfect, the fairly slow rack gearing seems entirely natural, and the feel is sublime. You’d know less about the road surface if you opened the door, leaned out and dragged your face along the asphalt.
So why isn’t it my favorite Type-R? Because a decade after creating the NA1 NSX-R, Honda revisited the concept to build another R from the facelifted, but soon-to-die, NA2 NSX. Opinion seems to be divided on the NA2’s fixed headlamps, butwheels fill the arches so much better, and its vented hood and rear spoiler make it stand out more clearly from the stock car.
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