NSX APPEAL

摘要

FINESSING THE MOST UNDERRATED OF SUPERCARS. JAPANESE ENGINEERS are talking up the new features of the 2019 Acura NSX, but my eye keeps straying to the slow, inexorable progress of the squat, rectangular Miimo robot cutting grass behind them. We're at Honda's Takasu Proving Center on Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, where, along with various test tracks mimicking California freeways and European country lanes, there are vast swaths of lawn to maintain. The robot halts at the trunk of a birch tree, seemingly stumped. I imagine its electronic brain frantically calculating a new route. After a few seconds, it reverses and resumes its journey. The scene is a metaphor for the path taken by Acura in recent years.