Hagerty | Revelations with Jason Cammisa. Episode 32: The Original Acura NSX Was Honda’s Most Successful Failure.

This is the story of the first generation Acura NSX, known in the rest of the world as the Honda NSX. The all-aluminum NA1 chassis NSX was developed as Honda was on top of the world — it had just begun an incredible string of Formula One victories, its Accord was the best selling car in America, and its new Acura luxury brand was a resounding success. The NSX would be the company’s flagship, demonstrating that Honda could apply its F1 know-how to a Ferrari-challenging, mid-engined supercar. It was received with near unanimous praise from the American automotive media, but ultimately the NSX struggled to find buyers for the majority of its 15-year production run. In this episode of ’Revelations,’ automotive journalist Jason Cammisa takes us through the history of the original NSX and why, in retrospect, it was actually a success despite being unable to live up to its sales expectations — and how it differs from the second-generation, Ohio-engineered and built NC1 hybrid.