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Video: Ayrton Senna with the Honda NSX

Video: Ayrton Senna with the Honda NSX

Kenneth Hall December 8th, 2006 Kenneth Hall By Kenneth Hall Author December 8th, 2006
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December 31st, 1969 Honda’s NSX has long been known as the “forgotten supercar”, mainly because its cutting edge aluminium construction caused it to be extremely expensive and the V6 engine never produced enough power to make it truly fast. Honda tasked its F1 driver at the time of development, the legendary Ayrton Senna, to help develop the handling of the NSX. Build quality on the NSX was far and above anything offered by Ferrari and its thought that it single-handedly forced them to upgrade their production methods. Check out this video of him taking it for a test drive in front of enthusiastic members of the Japanese press.
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Honda’s NSX has long been known as the “forgotten supercar”, mainly because its cutting edge aluminium construction caused it to be extremely expensive and the V6 engine never produced enough power to make it truly fast. Honda tasked its F1 driver at the time of development, the legendary Ayrton Senna, to help develop the handling of the NSX. Build quality on the NSX was far and above anything offered by Ferrari and its thought that it single-handedly forced them to upgrade their production methods. Check out this video of him taking it for a test drive in front of enthusiastic members of the Japanese press.

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Posted in: Acura, Honda, News, NSX


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  1. By surok #1, Posted: 12/8/2006

    this is a best motoring rip, type R legend i think

  2. By jose luis #2, Posted: 12/9/2006

    ayrton senna, the best driver ever,my inspiration well he drives like god

  3. By Billy #3, Posted: 1/27/2007

    An absolute legend and one of my heros.

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