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- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: Business Notes:Sports Cars
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- SPORTS CARS
- Not Like Your Father's Honda
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- <body>
- <p> In the showroom, Honda cars are known for quality and
- comfort, if not raciness. But on the track, Honda's Formula One
- cars have consistently blown the doors off their rivals. Now
- Honda is taking its racing technology to the streets with a new
- mid-engine sports car called the Acura NSX. The $60,000
- two-seater, which arrives at West Coast dealerships this week,
- is the most expensive Japanese car yet. The auto has been so
- eagerly anticipated that more than 1,500 of the first year's
- U.S. shipment of 3,000 cars are already spoken for.
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- <p> The car is designed as a challenger to Porsche and Ferrari,
- but may actually top them in comfort and high-tech efficiency.
- The all-aluminum NSX, which weighs just 3,000 lbs., has a top
- speed of 168 m.p.h. and can accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in
- a brisk 5.6 sec. Reviews in the automotive press have been
- ecstatic. "Compared with the NSX," said Automobile magazine,
- "a Chevrolet Corvette felt like it was from the Iron Age. A
- Ferrari 328 felt ponderous, massively challenging to drive, and
- not terribly quick."
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- </body>
- </article>
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