Conversion: '02 Targa to COUPE Type-R

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There's an amazing project thread detailed on prime here, building reproduction NSX-R seats. I wish they had started this project before I went hunting for seats in Japan.

Here's a photo from inside my car, with real R seats. For sure they look great, but I have to reiterate how nice they are to sit in.



...and, my comments to Vancehu's comments:

I'll second Vancehu's observations. R seats are as comfortable as OE NSX seats, amazing, but true. Recaro PP seats are nowhere close. I've logged over 100K miles in 7 NSXs over 19 years (now 50, 164lbs, 5-10), and can say that OE NSX seats were the very best I ever sat in...until I sat in real R seats in Tokyo. And, the other P and F cars honestly don't compare. Leather too stiff, bolsters feel like cement, ugh. My NSXs were all daily drivers. But yes, R seats are for slimmer guys.

Finally, sitting in R seats makes the whole NSX experience just that much better. The car feels more like a video game...almost faster (well...actually much faster, thank you Jon Martin). Dunno how Honda did it, but those R seats are like the Mclaren F1 road car...never going to be repeated again.

Don't know if I posted this one before (whack-job of a son/friend driving):

8-6-2010

Just a quick update. After my family returned from living overseas in 2007, we settled back into sunny South Florida. However, once you've lived overseas and traveled, you can never shake the itch. So mid last year, we sold the house, and are once again living overseas.

And, it's been all worth it. The family traveled over Christmas to Southeast Asia, specifically, Indochina. The four of us went around Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. We took an overnight barge down the Mekong River, slept in a hut in the Laotian jungles, drank cobra infused local hooch direct from the still, ate dog in Vietnam (and I can tell you, dog doesn't taste like chicken!), had a sobering day at the Killing Fields... but ate the best local food you can imagine. You just can't do all this, from Florida. You got to get out there in the world when you get the chance.

While I was in the US between 2007 - 2009, I was driving the NSX-RR pretty regularly. But since living in New Delhi, it's in safe storage at a friends garage someplace undisclosed near Fort Lauderdale. Next year, when we return back to the US, it'll once again be my daily driver. But, it's got some real competition as the daily driver... against my new love, a 1993 Land Rover Camel Trophy Defender 110. Yes, I guess I'm gettin' long in the tooth when I can say (in public) that tooling around in a ratty old Land Rover is sometimes nicer than this NSX. If that proves to be the case, sigh, I won't let the NSX rot. I'll just sell it, so that someone else can enjoy it. Yes, I'll lose money on it, but no, it won't be inexpensive.

This?

Or this?