2017 Acura NSX - Jay Leno's Garage

It's this feeling of rigidity of the body, yes, so the body is extremely rigid, that's what really provides this feeling of high quality. plus the dual clutch transmission when you drive late generation supercars, mainly from 2003 to 2007, and they have that single clutch that shifts abruptly and then the wastegate explodes and sounds dated, you know, while this seems perfect, yeah, yes, that's good, very good. the speed of the transmission, I mean a lot of people like to quote how fast the shifts happen, but from the time you pull the paddle if you go into paddle mode to the time the G is delivered, it's the height of the upper class.

Yeah, it's really good, yeah, you know, on these roads you might not choose to go and manually shift the transmission, but if you want to go into manual mode, you just press the button here and then it's completely manual, yeah, yeah, it's very very good and this engine is only available in the NSX, so it is not an engine that ends up in the deal or somewhere else, it is or is custom made for this car, it is designed and developed specifically for the NSX, everything that You know, every spec is unique to the NSX, yes, to me, that's the true mark of a supercar too is when everything is made specifically for that vehicle.

I don't care if the taillights come out of a Fiat or something. You know, with Italian cars that's not so bad, but you want to have your own engine, that's when you take it seriously. building a performance car is when you build your own engine, actually the transmission is too yeah, oh yeah, that's just going great, it's really good, it's really pretty good, okay, I gotta get one of these guys pretty good. This thing belongs to many of you. It's funny that you press it hard, well, I'm not pressing it that hard, but no, there is no heat sink smell, no, nothing, all the indicators remain exactly the same.

Yes, this is it. You know, I have that 1964 Honda 600 and it has 57 horsepower. It's 600cc, it's a double cam roller bearing crank, if I said Porsche it would be a million dollars, but it's the sweetest cut, it's the trickiest car to drive because you're using all the power all the time. Imagine a 9500 RPM red. Line back in 19 64 and this reminds me of that, of course, with massive amounts of steroids, but it's an amazing car, we'll take it back to the shop. I want to show you how launch control works. a I never use launch control, but it's pretty cool, it's kind of like what a burnout would be if you just want to get away from there quickly, here we're going to look at the old days, burnouts are about tire smoke, I don't did.

I didn't really get anywhere quickly, I just made a lot of noise and left big marks on the road. This is four-wheel drive, so technically you don't get burned, but you can get out of here pretty quickly, so let's go. I don't actually have a start button, just put your left foot on the brake, crank the RS up to about two thousand, let's see, there we go, oh look, look, start mode is ready and the moment it You take your foot off the brake, well, there you have it. There's a lot of drama but you get out of town pretty quickly.

I want to thank Ted Michelle, thank you and CA Honda. What a fabulous car it has been. Look, it's been a long wait. Jerry and I did that commercial five years ago, but obviously they. I waited to do it right. It's really really good, it's really impressive, so I think we're going to order one of these. See you next week.