Ode to Winston Wolf.... [PIC]

@jkuvakas It's more of a marketing issue. As much as Acura produced high performance automobiles, the brand was marketed to upscale luxury performance with no emphasis to competition. Cars have no souls, only what marketing execs give them, and they give them what Acura execs want them to have.

@rich-sufficool, maybe I should have used another word. But, apart from what the marketers tell us, some cars operate more like appliances. They are competent, sometimes incredibly so. The NSX was like that. I had the opportunity to drive several versions. They were great cars. But, as I walked away from them, I had no urge to look back. I didn't have an excited anticipation of my next drive. Some cars evoke that feeling; some cars make you feel connected to them and make you eager to get in and do it again. Many Italian cars manage to do it. You can hardly depend on them to always get you where you want to go, but it doesn't matter. It's the time behind the wheel you long for. I had an XKE that felt that way and a TR6. I call this "soul." It's not always a product of marketing. When I had a series of Fiats, there was precious little marketing done for them here in the USA. There are others; Porsche 914, just about any pre-eighties Ferrari, early Jaguars. Triumph TRs, Datsun 510s, there are more. These are cars you own, but they somehow own you as well.