NSXavier
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One week of owning it and driven approximately 200 miles of combination city, highway and back road jaunts. No rattles to note as of yet. There is a very distinctive "buzzzzz" when letting off the throttle while in gear and revs are high. This is very reminiscent of the DC chassis Integras. Pretty sure this is normal and I don't mind it.
I learned to drive on FWD cars and it was the platform I stuck with for the first 6 years of my automotive enthusiast life. With that being said it's kind of instinctive for me to drive the ITS as I already have a good sense of the FWD platform and can kind of easily predict what the car will do. There is indeed torque steer, but as others have mentioned, it is a torque steer that is a night and day difference to torque steer found in other FWD cars.
I do prefer RWD and AWD cars as the platform to get if you're looking for something that falls in line with a more traditional motorsports sense of being. The ITS is very much a street car, but is a far stretch from a race car. With that being said, one simply cannot expect the ITS to do race car things and behave the way a race car would. If Honda would have followed the PORSCHE ethos of making a race car a street car like what they have done with all GT3's, then it wouldn't be as comfortable, compliant and as easy to just drive it as it is. It would be really cool. But how many people do you know daily drive a GT3? It just doesn't happen. It's usually their second car that gets driven on weekends. The ITS is something that is sporty and fun that you can very easily daily drive. Sports car: yes. Race car: no.
I agree that the wheels and tires on this car are a missed opportunity for HONDA/ACURA to make something that truly 100% appeals to the newer generation of car buyers and catered to the modern enthusiast. The fact that ALL Honda cars like this continue to come equipped with wheels and tires that appear "sunken in" just goes to show that they're really trying to be hip to the latest car trends with (wide body FL5, over fenders DE5, aggressive styling, distinct body lines, a pinned up high rear end, a pronounced hood line and sleek silhouette) but still fail to execute one of the most important factors of it all.... how the vehicle sits. Nobody wants to see a sports car sitting 4x4 status on rubber band low profile tires and high offset wheels. Low profile tires were a thing of the early 2000's and it should stay there forever. I'm not saying they should make it stance-boy air ride & lay frame, but maybe follow what BMW, AUDI and the Germans have done with their cars. A nice and somewhat flush, lowered factory stance. Hell, even the NC1 NSX missed that mark imho. Idk... It would just be nice to buy a car like this and not have to worry about messing around with suspension, wheels and tires right off the bat. I hate to already be shopping around for suspension stuff, but to me...it just doesn't look right in factory form.
Clutch pedal effort could be heavier for me. I prefer a firmer clutch pedal rather than it feeling like you're stepping on a container of room-temperature I can't believe its not butter. Not a deal breaker... just takes some time getting used to. I could also see that the soft clutch pedal would appeal to a broader range of buyers, so, can't fault them for that.
Shifter feels just right to me. I'm not really expecting there to be zero left and right slop when in gear. Given how rubbery the shifter is, they've done a really good job still making it feel precise and accurate and.
Rear vents.... have yet to have anyone in the back seat. But if they complain, they all have UBER.
Rear seat back and rear seat bottoms could have been matched with the same material as the front seats. It honestly looks cheap and am kind of upset about that. But not enough to make me not buy one.
LKAS was annoying as hell until I figured out how to turn it off.
One thing that drives me INSANE (and I don't think it's the car but rather iOS), is that when using wireless apple carplay it'll do this weird thing where it automatically switches the car to "talk HFL mode" and the music playing will turn off all the speakers in the car except the center channel and only output music from there at a very high volume. I've noticed that it only does this when leaving my house and coming back... so it could have something to do with the device automatically switching over to a known WiFi. The only way to cancel out of this when it happens is to press the talk button on the steering wheel and then select "CANCEL" using the scroll wheel.
Overall I'm pretty happy that I have this car; however, I think that anyone looking at these should go in with set expectations of it. New buyers should know what the car is, how it behaves and basically do their homework on it (this also applies to ANY car not just this car). That way they're not expecting a race car for the street only to find out they bought a commuter car with really well engineered suspension and a potent powerplant, that also happens to be very engaging and fun to drive.
I learned to drive on FWD cars and it was the platform I stuck with for the first 6 years of my automotive enthusiast life. With that being said it's kind of instinctive for me to drive the ITS as I already have a good sense of the FWD platform and can kind of easily predict what the car will do. There is indeed torque steer, but as others have mentioned, it is a torque steer that is a night and day difference to torque steer found in other FWD cars.
I do prefer RWD and AWD cars as the platform to get if you're looking for something that falls in line with a more traditional motorsports sense of being. The ITS is very much a street car, but is a far stretch from a race car. With that being said, one simply cannot expect the ITS to do race car things and behave the way a race car would. If Honda would have followed the PORSCHE ethos of making a race car a street car like what they have done with all GT3's, then it wouldn't be as comfortable, compliant and as easy to just drive it as it is. It would be really cool. But how many people do you know daily drive a GT3? It just doesn't happen. It's usually their second car that gets driven on weekends. The ITS is something that is sporty and fun that you can very easily daily drive. Sports car: yes. Race car: no.
I agree that the wheels and tires on this car are a missed opportunity for HONDA/ACURA to make something that truly 100% appeals to the newer generation of car buyers and catered to the modern enthusiast. The fact that ALL Honda cars like this continue to come equipped with wheels and tires that appear "sunken in" just goes to show that they're really trying to be hip to the latest car trends with (wide body FL5, over fenders DE5, aggressive styling, distinct body lines, a pinned up high rear end, a pronounced hood line and sleek silhouette) but still fail to execute one of the most important factors of it all.... how the vehicle sits. Nobody wants to see a sports car sitting 4x4 status on rubber band low profile tires and high offset wheels. Low profile tires were a thing of the early 2000's and it should stay there forever. I'm not saying they should make it stance-boy air ride & lay frame, but maybe follow what BMW, AUDI and the Germans have done with their cars. A nice and somewhat flush, lowered factory stance. Hell, even the NC1 NSX missed that mark imho. Idk... It would just be nice to buy a car like this and not have to worry about messing around with suspension, wheels and tires right off the bat. I hate to already be shopping around for suspension stuff, but to me...it just doesn't look right in factory form.
Clutch pedal effort could be heavier for me. I prefer a firmer clutch pedal rather than it feeling like you're stepping on a container of room-temperature I can't believe its not butter. Not a deal breaker... just takes some time getting used to. I could also see that the soft clutch pedal would appeal to a broader range of buyers, so, can't fault them for that.
Shifter feels just right to me. I'm not really expecting there to be zero left and right slop when in gear. Given how rubbery the shifter is, they've done a really good job still making it feel precise and accurate and.
Rear vents.... have yet to have anyone in the back seat. But if they complain, they all have UBER.
Rear seat back and rear seat bottoms could have been matched with the same material as the front seats. It honestly looks cheap and am kind of upset about that. But not enough to make me not buy one.
LKAS was annoying as hell until I figured out how to turn it off.
One thing that drives me INSANE (and I don't think it's the car but rather iOS), is that when using wireless apple carplay it'll do this weird thing where it automatically switches the car to "talk HFL mode" and the music playing will turn off all the speakers in the car except the center channel and only output music from there at a very high volume. I've noticed that it only does this when leaving my house and coming back... so it could have something to do with the device automatically switching over to a known WiFi. The only way to cancel out of this when it happens is to press the talk button on the steering wheel and then select "CANCEL" using the scroll wheel.
Overall I'm pretty happy that I have this car; however, I think that anyone looking at these should go in with set expectations of it. New buyers should know what the car is, how it behaves and basically do their homework on it (this also applies to ANY car not just this car). That way they're not expecting a race car for the street only to find out they bought a commuter car with really well engineered suspension and a potent powerplant, that also happens to be very engaging and fun to drive.
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But we don't need a third row anyway. We have 2 kids & can 100% say at least I won't be fathering any more. The new Sequoia she wants to look at is like $30k more than a used GTS! I don't think it's worth it, even without having driven either one yet.
