For all the reasons and more, the Honda NSX continues to be a reference model in the history of sports and super sports. When the anti-Ferrari came out in 1990, it set new standards in terms of quality, reliability and usability, words that hardly anyone would associate with supersports.
His career was particularly long, about 15 years, despite a commercial performance below expectations — it is not always easy to convince that the same builder that sells “normal” Civic and Accord is capable of also making a super sports car.
The buyer of this particular Honda NSX — correction, Acura NSX, since it's the North American model — however, must have seen its potential as a future classic when he acquired it in 1994.
Did not register the car, instead stored it along with other cars in its collection — according to the sales announcement, this collector has more than 40 cars stored in climate-controlled conditions, all of them with less than 800 km on the odometer(!).
The first registration of this Honda NSX took place only in 2018, just before it was sold to the stand that has now put it up for sale.
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Hence the pristine, pristine state of this Honda NSX, which looks more like a time capsule. It only has 300 km and we know that there was at least one tire change, as the Yokohama it is equipped with are from 2003. In the ad we can read that there was an oil change this year.
Everything is original and practically unused, including the fantastic 3.0 V6 VTEC naturally aspirated with 274 hp at 7100 rpm , but redline at 8000 rpm, here accompanied by the five-speed manual gearbox.
According to the advertisement on the Bring a Trailer website, it is one of only 34 units produced in the Brooklands Green color. The interior is in black leather, and we have nice items like a Bose sound system, automatic air conditioning and… an airbag for the driver (an equipment not very common at the time).
The analogue odometer reads just 187 mi, the equivalent of 301 km.
Japanese sports to value
We recently saw a Toyota Supra A80 , also from 1994, at auction reach a record value of more than 153 thousand euros , which reveals a growing trend of appreciation for the Japanese sports car of the 90's.
This Honda NSX has a lot less kilometers and is equally immaculate, but can it achieve values as high as this Supra? As of the date of publication of this article, we see on Bring a Trailer that there are four days to go before the offer is finished, and at the moment the highest offer amounts to 110 thousand dollars (just over 98 thousand euros).
Update on April 3, 2019: The deadline to buy this pristine NSX has already expired, having fetched a little insubstantial $151,000, equivalent to just over 134,400 euros.