1993 HONDA NSX TYPE R – MANUAL
* AVAILABLE TO INSPECT BY APPOINTMENT ONLY *
When Honda introduced the original NSX in 1989, it changed the sports car landscape forever. Always a pioneering company, Honda was the first Japanese team to compete and win in Formula 1 in the 1960s. By the late 1980s, their engines were dominating the sport and senior management felt the time was right to demonstrate their engineering prowess in the commercial space. The design brief was simple – to challenge the best that Porsche and Ferrari could offer with a revolutionary all-aluminium semi-monocoque unibody chassis sports car.
The result was the NSX (New Sportscar eXperimental), a car which succeeded in outclassing its contemporaries, the Porsche 911 and Ferrari 348, on almost every metric while introducing levels of practicality and reliability never before seen in the class.
Although considered the finest mid-range supercar available at the time, the NSX was inevitably compromised by the need to strike a balance between performance and daily drivability.
When Ayrton Senna, driving for Honda at the time, finished driving the prototype in 1989, he famously thought the car was “too fragile.” This verdict, along with the clamour from customers for a higher performance, hard core version to meet the challenge of Porsche’s rumoured light weight RS version of the 911, resulted in the development of a car now regarded by many to be the ultimate Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) special: the legendary NSX Type-R.
The challenge for Honda’s engineers, with Senna working with them now as a technical advisor, was to figure out how to fine tune an already near-perfect car to make it even more driver focussed. The solution embraced a single overriding principal: weight loss.
A very rare and exciting model rarely seen in Australia.
This example in Bright Red with a Black roof and red interior trim was purchased by a Japanese citizen whilst living in Japan and bought to Adelaide as a personal import when he moved here to take up residence.
We hold a mass of books and paperwork relating to this vehicle and also the Australian Import Approval dated the 15th of July 2014.
This vehicle is well known in Japan as well as Australia and there is an NSX Owner’s File supplied which shows the owner with his car together with lots of other owners and their cars. All written in Japanese, easy to read if you can interpret the Japanese language.
Powered by a 3.0 Litre V6 VTEC ((Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control) engine, it produces 206Kw and 294Nm of power and torque, delivered to the rear wheels via a 5 speed manual gearbox. Being of mid engine design, the near perfect weight distribution makes it’s on road performance amazing.
One of the finest driving cars of recent years and also eligible for Historic registration in most jurisdictions, which equates to minimal on road costs. This statement is supported by the very fact that none other than the late Ayrton Senna was instrumental in the development of this model together with the Honda engineers.
We can arrange transport door to door to any address world wide.
Finance – our broker offers VERY competitive rates and prompt service.
We welcome the opportunity to consider your trade in.
| Make: | Honda |
| Model: | NSX Type R |
| Built: | 1993 |
| KM: | 59,731 |
| Engine Size: | 3000cc |
| Cylinders: | 6 |
| Transmission: | Manual |
| Price: | Sold |