4TehNguyen

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he still lives

Marzabella

Clever. Now if only honda could put that sort of thinking into its cars these days.

Hoovey689

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Wow that was really cool. Where's that sort of passion in their passenger vehicles these day?!

CK6Speed

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Believe it or not, if I would buy tickets to an event like this I could. Even if it's just watching some LED lights go around the track. Just knowing its Ayrton Senna's lap times and race line would make for an awesome time.

SteVTEC

A friend of mine sent this to me, and here was my private reply:

Okay so Honda can do cool **** like this, but they can't put DOHC heads on a V6, design any sort of RWD platform, properly replace the S2000, properly replace the NSX (yet), properly do a turbo motor, all of their cars are fugly, and their latest flagship is this disgrace called the RLX. Oh and as great as Aryton Senna was, that was 1989, nearly 25 years ago. Honda is just like the cool kid in high school that thought he was the **** and had it made, but is now middle-aged and a complete loser and realizes his very best days were... high school.

CK6Speed

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There is a lot of truth to this, but I think Honda is coming around. They did put a DOHC on a V6. I have one. They don't have one on their current engines, but they also don't have any real sport cars to put an engine like that in. Hopefully they will get back with the program.

I do have to say the new Accord is a huge step in the right direction for Honda. I personally think its back to the top of its class again. That could be arguable, but at least for me it would be among my top choices and it actually looks pretty good which is something I couldn't say for Honda/Acura cars the past decade. Now Acura is still all messed up.

I think Honda will be like I am. A middle aged guy that is starting to get stuff back together and will be back as good or better than a decade ago. I think everything is cyclical. Everyone raises to the top or near it, then has years of being a POS. Toyota is not immune to it either. Hyundai is on a high right now, but was a POS before. The American cars were bad *** back in the Muscle car days, then became POS, and now are putting out some good stuff again.

SteVTEC

I agree.

I did follow-up and say that I thought the new Accord was a home run. They really did an outstanding job on that car and deserve to be given credit for it. Yeah the NSX's C32 had DOHC heads, but other than that.... All of the modern J-series V6 engines are SOHC. Then again, Honda doesn't have a platform to make good use of an even higher powered V6 engine (yet), so it points back to the product developers.

I hope so on that last part, and good analogy.

Hoovey689

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Pretty cool homage to Ayrton Senna

2BENVD

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That's pretty sick, sounds of a fallen legend.