I don't think there is a current year model NSX Type-S. I watched a video a while back of a review of an NSX Type-R and they basically said for the price they could do better but that it was the best hadling car they had ever tested.

 

The GTO is an ugly ass Grand Am with RWD and an old Corvette engine.

 

It better be, a lot of it is CF and to ED9man, the GTO isn't even the same chassis/suspension/brakes/interior as a grand am so don't go making your retarded generalizations. It has IRS and the LS1 is as formidable of a motor you're gonna get in a car at that price range (puts even a base C5 in the high 12's low 13's). I'd rather have an "old pushrod corvette" engine pushing a RWD drivetrain than the 260 hp 3.2L V6 in my dad's FWD CL type S so don't be such a biased homo.

 

Yes, 12.7, the 2003 Type-S but of course from Japan i guess they sell only in Japan, about some stuff that i said .. yes .. gotta admit 1/4 mile races are coll too but i don't think you can really appreciatte the real car potential only meassuring the 1/4 drag race ... by the way ,,, M3?? damm that a awesome car ....

Oscar Moyano

 

NSX Type-S (i'm sorry) LOL

Oscar

 

I can't believe your hating on the GTO. I actually sat in one recently and it was actually really nice in camparison to a vette quality wise. That car has so much potential it's rediculous. take a look at this GTO:

 

Just ignore that ED9 dude he's a total tool and definetely not an ethusiast. Anyone that comes on any board and says this car is crap because it's american or it has an old yet quite possibly has one of the MOST EFFICIENT and RELIABLE motors ever built that stands the test of time for 20+ years is a pos is not worth the bandwidth that he wasted to post his opinion. I'd kill to have a GTO and I drive a M3 which is questionably one of the best handling cars ever built.

 

OT: Can someone PLEASE edit the title to be grammatically correct? :happysad:

 

a GTO drifting....damn that is definetly something you don't see everyday

 

and yet, while the american cars may be faster in some cases, the Japanese engineering processes and methods have set the standard, and indeed forced USA to try and adapt to the japanese technologies, being tens of years behind.

This was the "lean production" process. While american cars were still being mass produced and serving an effective life of 80,000 miles maximum, japanese engineers were revising processes, and going by the ideal of "if its broke, redesign." Their cars were easily living to the high 100,000's. While American engineers were going by the ideal of "if its broke, fix it afterwards". To this day mass production is quickly being converted to lean production in the US, and the Japenese have been ahead ever since.

I have to admit, american car engineering has come LEAPS and BOUNDS. The japanese lead the way, and perfected this. That is why for the past 40+ years or so, japanese cars have simply been ahead. Not necessarily faster, or better, but ahead in terms of efficient, accurate production.


Sorry, that was actually more a reply to what was being discussed earlier in the thread..... I love the GTO too!