Danny Bachmann

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July 17, 2002, on Acura NSX Review:
Most of the comments on this page are insightful! I have one subjective question and one quick technical comment. Why do some of you assume that the person who accelerates fastest from 0-60 at the cheapest cost is the winner? I'm not rich or elitist, but I love cars enough to know that if I had the money, I'd pay for exclusivity and "rareness." Second, someone claimed that their Porsche (rear engined) achieved the same weight distribution as the NSX without the mid-engine layout (which may be correct); however, they then inferred that the layout wasn't that special because their Porsche could achieve the same distribution without it. Cars with different polar moment of intertias can have the same front/rear weight distributions. Distributions only indicate the position of the centers of mass. It says nothing about how much mass must rotate about a the CM. Here, you can't beat the NSX. Don't you think there is a reason that F1, Indy, LeMans, Modena, Saleen, etc. cars all have a m...