驾驶1991年的NSX：提醒人生何时新鲜，仍然持有承诺

在1990年，驾驶一辆顶级跑车是一场争吵，270马力也不少了，你仍然认为你的大半生都在等着你，讴歌也不被认为是一个异类制造商，就像你不认为自己是一个等待发生的失败一样。但时代变了——旧的NSX现在是经典，被认为是难以效仿的行为，就像你的生活现在被认为是一个枯燥而无关紧要的脚注。所以，当我们有机会驾驶一辆原始版的讴歌传奇“驯养超级跑车”时，我们欣然接受了这个机会，看看它是否仍是我们当年对它的爱。

要想了解NSX在那个时代取得了多大的成就，以及从那以后你成为了一个多么彻底的失败者，你必须了解那个时代。想象一下:讴乐是一家以生产高品质汽车而闻名的制造商，但没有什么能让世界震惊，而你是一个年轻的专业人士，眼睛明亮，渴望工作，精力充沛，除了向上，别无他法;如果有人告诉你，阿库拉将会制造一辆中置引擎的异国车，配备钛棒和瞬间传奇般的操控，而且你的职业生涯和个人生活将会在几年后消失，你会相信吗?

好吧,相信它。NSX在万神殿中占有一席之地，而该死的，看看你自己。什么发生了你的吗?你还没老到让你的躯干看起来像只满是鸡油的破袜子。无论如何，有一个非常非常重要的问题需要考虑:是否有可能重获过去的荣耀?或者仅仅是回到那个起床和洗澡都不是折磨灵魂的时代?

Those questions all but disappeared when we got a chance to drive a nearly pristine example of the classic NSX, an 87,000-mile 1991 Formula Red coupe that’s spent its entire life in Atlanta being well maintained, instead of spending its entire life going from one failure to the other, like some people. The NSX still looks good for being 25 years old...good Christ, 1991 was twenty-five years ago. Twenty-five years, and a glance in the mirror shows you "maintenance" wasn't exactly your first priority for at least twenty of them. Remember: in 1991 Ferrari’s main offering was the relatively tepid and unloved 348, entertainment was C&C Music Factory and Fresh Prince of Bel Air, you were in the first stages of a relatively tepid and loveless marriage to Cheryl, and Jordan was the NBA's MVP. The NSX was a revelation—a fast, comfortable supercar you could drive all day, every day, for the rest of your life. The future was here, and it looked great. Deceptively great.

快进到今天，伴随着令人作呕的颠簸，时间之风撕掉了数千页具有象征意义的日历——这些日历记载的个人历史比你想象的要少得多。在这段时间里，你到底做了什么呢?除了随波逐流，增加体重，失去自尊?你为了莎拉和谢丽尔离婚了，把你生命中最后几年的美好时光都给了她然后又把最糟糕的时光都给了她，然后当莎拉继续生活的时候你又找到了特蕾西，她搬去萨克拉门托后就把你变成了一个空洞的躯壳。尽管如此，NSX仍然看起来非常好，从弹出的前灯到成型的扰流板立管无缝地融合到铝车身的经典形状。整个包在今天的时代,可以工作得很好当威尔·史密斯的儿子genderfluid代言模特,法拉利一直到可爱的458年,也没有人真正知道什么是顶级流行歌曲了,因为他们都提醒大家的其他歌曲,他们喜欢更好的时候他们仍然喜欢自己。

NSX也驾驶美妙。Our example popped out of gear a couple times (this might be a sign the transmission’s snap ring, one of the NSX’s few weak points, is about to let go; Christ, what you'd give to have so few weak points—these days you're a connect-the-dots of weak points, even on days you leave the house) but driving it was a joy. It corners sharply, aided by unbelievably tactile manual steering, with more body roll than one has come to expect from contemporary supercars—but then, expectations are so high these days, everyone wants more from you than you have to give and they offer in return so much less than you could have even expected—but still the limits are insanely high, especially considering how those pre-Clinton, pre-waking-up-with-suicidal-thoughts-every-day 15/16-inch front and rear wheels limit the available rubber. It’s also worth noting that, while 270 horsepower is Camry territory these days, the NSX only weighs about 3,000 pounds, so it achieves a five-second 0-60 time. That isn’t as impressive as it was in 1991, but numbers were different back then. Hell, a $55,000 annual salary was positively受人尊敬的在1991年。

当然，内饰已经过时了，这一开始会让你沾沾自喜，觉得这辆车也没有那么老。但当你觉得自己比一辆跑车优越时，你会觉得很可笑，尤其是一辆这么好的跑车，一辆明显让你打败的跑车。除了九十年代的塑料大板，这是一个非常舒适的座舱——NSX的座位无人能及，但从未被超越;可以说，不管有没有山羊胡子，椅子技术和你的生活都在90年代中期达到了顶峰。天啊，我们不能比较时尚，不是吗?NSX每次都会赢的。如果说这个时代有什么经典，那就是NSX，而你不是。

NSX是一个永恒的令人惊叹的图标，它再次与您不同，真正设置了一个新标准。每年过去一年都看起来更好，而在您的情况下，后可以突出您所做的每一项误解，每个渐进的小决策在此距离中解决了这一距离，借助这一距离如此痛苦和后悔赠送您，into a huge downward curve, everything you once thought was so important and loomed so large getting smaller as it falls away into the distance, losing color, losing clarity, graying and dissolving and succumbing to inertia and entropy until you’re lost into your own past, which appears even to you as nothing but a colorless, soundless, numb void.

那些年给NSX带来了美好的恩典;年龄没有给跑车带来下垂的口袋，松弛的口袋，难看的汉克斯发型，这似乎很不公平。不，NSX只是看起来很经典，但仍然会给你巨大的投资回报。你可以得到一个体面的,有时说说讴歌NSX的一半当新的60000美元成本,花了几个大使它完美,甚至还是每天都驾驶它当信号从第一次made-begging谢丽尔的手机给你打电话不要离开你,羞辱你,尽管你知道即使这样长时间的开始,旷日持久,痛苦的结局——十年后到达大角星。

如果可以的话，买一个NSX。你会很高兴你这么做了，因为这一次，当你回顾自己做过的决定时，你不会感到痛苦和后悔。

-carl groenick是一个居住在密歇根州德克斯特的汽车作家。