Talk:Honda NSX

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I just created a link from the Honda page to here. --MikeM 03:57, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Can someone please add in more information on the NSX-R GT?

[edit] NSX-R vs NSX Type R

i'm inclined to think it ought to be 'NSX-R' based on http://world.honda.com/NSX/history/. also: http://world.honda.com/NSX/concept/index.html supports the notion that the 1992 "R" was 'NSX-R' and that the word 'Type' is not a literal string of characters in these particular models' names (as found in integra/civic, afaik), but rather simply consistent with the usage of the word 'type' as a distinguisher Jrrs 04:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NSX acronym for "New Sports X"

per: http://www.honda.co.jp/sportscar/howto/fiesta04repo/page6/index.html

"New Sports X (code name at time of the Chicago show exhibition)"

There used to be an expanded explanation at: http://www.honda.co.jp/customer/faq-auto/modelname/ But it has since been removed, as the NSX is no longer a current model.

Fubaz 00:24, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20041011165746/http://www.honda.co.jp/customer/faq-auto/modelname/ which is the Oct 11, 2004 snapshot of the same page mentioned above. This block of Text in Japanese:

NSXとは「New Sports(ニュー・スポーツ)の未知数」という意味で、高性能でありながら、それを意のままに操ることができ、しかも扱いやすく快適に走れる、ホンダの新しいスポーツカーとして名付けられました。

Google translates as:

"Although NSX “New Sports (new sport) in the sense, unknown”, being the high performance, it could work that while it is mind furthermore to handle easily comfortably it can run, it was named as the sport car whose HONDA is new."

ocn.amikai.com translates as:

"It was named as a new sports car of Honda which is the meaning "the unknown of New Sports (new sport)" in NSX, can manipulate it at will and can run comfortably that it is moreover easy to treat though it is highly efficient."

Both translations' language seem to imply "X" was used as its representation as a variable, not as shorthand for "Experimental."

Fubaz 00:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but you'll find thousands of sources like that. It may be that the X was initialy meant as "Unkown" but at the first presentations it was clearly stated as "eXperimental". And you can be sure that the guys at nsxprime (e.g. Lud Eng) know what they write about.--NSX-Racer 17:33, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps I misunderstand the Wikipedia policy on verifiability, but how do "thousands" of secondary sources override a primary source on a simple fact such as the meaning an acronym? Particularly, a page on the offical Honda site (albeit in Japanese, so I would be open to a dispute over the translations) that was specifically intened to explain the meanings behind the car model's names? Or does the 14-year gap between the NSX's introduction in 1989 and the posting of that page on Honda site in 2003 provide enough "research distance" for that page to be considered a secondary source?

After some research I altered the chapter a bit. I hope this meets the reality a bit more than before.--NSX-Racer 09:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)