Showing posts with label Acura. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acura. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2026
Monday, March 04, 2024
an NSX moved into the neighborhood... and it looks like they parked a truck in front, and a car behind, so it can't get stolen
I haven't seen an NSX outside a garage or museum in 16 years. This is very odd to find this not being protected from the rain and sun by a garage
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Acura made a series of anime commercials (1-4) here's the set in one video "Chiaki’s Journey"
This is news to me, and it's already 3 weeks old... I'm impressed that Acura would use it's budget this way, as I doubt this will contribute to sales. I'm often wrong though.. ..
But I am very impressed they went ahead and used animation like this to try. I hope more companies try this method, it's very entertaining - and what a Comic Con press pass application material item!
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
How focused is Acura on a good sound system? They hired Grammy Award-winner Elliott Scheiner as a consultant
Elliott Scheiner has spent a lifetime developing the right sound for the world’s best musicians: Aerosmith, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, the Foo Fighters, Beck, Steely Dan, the Eagles, Queen, and many more.
The most recent top-end Acura sound system, ELS Studio 3D, is a 16 speaker 710-watt option.
The market for premium audio systems is huge. According to research, U.S. buyers are willing to pay an average of $573 for a premium branded audio systems upgrade.
Sony, Bose, Beats, and Pioneer ranked as among the most influential brands globally, but the world of boutique brands includes Bang and Olufsen, Bowers and Wilkins, JBL, Lexicon, Infinity, Mark Levinson, and Harman Kardon
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/23076/automakers-and-audio-companies-are-pushing-in-car-music-technology-farther-than-ever
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
When Acura got a GT3 Porsche back from the dealership while using it to help develop the NSX’s steering, they found a note under the hood... "Good luck Honda"
Per common practice, when Acura bought a 911 GT3 for its test fleet, it did so anonymously, but Porsche saw who it belonged to when the service center accessed the car’s data, according to Automotive News.
It was at this point that Porsche decided to have a little bit of fun with its counterparts at Acura. “Good luck Honda from Porsche. See you on the other side,” read a note left under the 911 GT3’s engine cover, according to the NSX’s dynamics project leader Nick Robinson.
The NSX team also benchmarked a McLaren 12C, and although McLaren never figured out that Acura owned the particular car, the dealer in charge of servicing raised an eyebrow. “[The McLaren dealer] wanted to know ‘Where did you go 205 mph? What track?’,”
http://blog.caranddriver.com/porsche-left-a-note-for-acura-in-the-911-gt3-used-as-benchmark-for-the-nsx/
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Acura supercar from the Avengers movie, Tony Stark / Iron Man's super car
above 2 images from http://www.caughtonset.com/robert-downey-jr-mark-ruffalo-avengers/ which has incredible coverage of movie stars during the movie making process
below 2 photos I took at SEMA 2012
below infographic is from http://collider.com/avengers-movie-tony-stark-car-images/140630/ because the Sundance Film Festival was a location for marketing of the Avengers movie, and the car and the info were found by Collider.com who lists the info in text on the previous link, instead of you trying to read all the super spy/ high tech gadgets of the below photo. Some of the gizmos are a palm-scan ID steering wheel, enviro-clone projected hologram of surroundings, self-detonating recon drone, night-vision HUD windshield etc etc . Good closeups of the car at the Collider link as well
Similar thoughts about the Iron Man cars had me look to see if they are online somewhere, and I found that About.com has a full listing and some information about the cars in Tony Starks garage. Like the 32 roadster is actually Jon Favreau's. http://exoticcars.about.com/od/famousfilmcars/tp/IronMan2.htm who compared the cars in the garage in Iron Man one to Iron Man 2 and let us know that the Saleen and the Tesla didn't make it to the second movie.
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