The NSX is getting some strange reviews. Jalopnik has called it a "rational supercar," but that's not a compliment. Supercars are not supposed to practical or rational. It is an unfortunate circumstance. From the very inception it seems doomed to failure. honda set out to make a practical supercar, but practical never should have been part of the equation.

Do reviews like this make you nervous? What do you think of the idea of a rational supercar?

I thought Acura was calling the NSX a daily sports car and not a supercar? That would explain why they call it rational.

Acura is specifically calling it a supercar, but to me it's just a high-end sports car. Chances are they know that but called it 'supercar' for marketing purposes.

What do you think is attached to supercar that makes the NSX not really fit into that category?

No because they're the ramblings of man-children.

Think about the target demo of the NSX... They're successful 50-60/70 year olds who want something to enjoy.

Most of them ostensibly choose the 911... and the 911 is by NO MEANS impractical or irrational. You can get it in 4WD and I see just as many new 911s around in the winter as I do in the summer.

Fuh there's a dude who drives his Ferrari FF year round in the building down the street from me.

This whole pitch about it needs to mean and kill you is totally ass backwards.

The original NSX was designed to root out the "im trying to kill you" handling and throttle response of the late 80's super car...

You can let it worry you if you want... but if it does worry you you're don't really want the car for the car, you want it for some sort of external validation...

I don't get why people are so anathema to the idea of an everyday supercar... Seriously that's Porsches bread ad butter... so Porsche gets a pass but Acura does not...

I know you don't have a response for this, no one does.

The NSX hate falls into the Acura hate, totally unfounded... and from people who aren't going to buy one in the first place...

FFS.

and as much as Jalopnik would like to think so, the reaction times of mere mortals are not capable of handling what they deem to be the ideal supercar.

Acura made a car any old dude can drive fast, not just Fernando Alonso... and that right there is the appeal. It makes bad drivers good and good drivers excellent...

I think a good way to see it is like Acura GTR. The Nissan GTR was made to be like this, but of course the NSX is formed a little differently. And look at the response the GTR got once on the market.

Agree with you there Violee. I think the people who wants the fast and furious cars are the younger generation who likes to go on track a lot. I may not be 50-60/70 year old but the Acura NSx holds more appeal to me than a manual super sports car that I can't control.

It's probably what Acura noticed, a lot of people getting into the market but haven't been gear heads all their life, and just want to get in and drive the heck out of a supecar/high end sports car without being some guru, at least this lets them to do just that.

Sorry I was just making a blanket generalization based on who the core Porsche demo is (which i really think is the NSX's target this time)

It just upsets me to no end that each and every journalist is coming to the conclusion that the "NSX is AWFUL because I didn't have a heart attack behind the wheel or it didn't snap oversteer me into a tree..."

I'm sitting here scratching my head going when did that become our metric for how good a car is or not?