The groundbreaking Honda NSX forever changed the world when it debuted on September 14, 1990. The slogan in its home-market ads read ,”Our Dreams Come True.” Not your dreams, but ours, as in the Honda engineers who had sought from the company’s founding to challenge the world’s best with racing machines of their own making.
The NSX was the culmination of a decades-long ambition to one day beat the long-established old world marques with a supercar wearing the Honda name. It was borne from the same spirit that built the RC143 and RA272, both of which rocked the entrenched motorsports hierarchy when they became the first Japanese machines to win the Isle of Man TT and a Formula 1 Grand Prix.
The gamechanging NSX is now 35 years old. To celebrate that milestone, Honda has released a video delving into its many iterations. The NSX thoroughly changed the supercar game by bringing forth the world’s first mass-produced all-aluminum body, taking Honda’s VTEC system global, and redefining what a supercar’s suspension could be.
While not as in-depth as the recent Suzuki GSX-R 40th anniversary video, there’s still plenty of breathtaking footage of NSXes, including both R variants. The NSX not only delivered unprecedented technologies, but put it all in a package that was utterly reliable and something that anyone could drive daily. It was a shining moment in automotive history, and even 35 years later there have been few cars that have matched its excellence.
How telling that the two-ton two-pedal electromechanical contrivances take up the rear in both the image and thumbnail.