Acura NSX NA1

The NSX forced the establishment to take usability seriously: an all-aluminium mid-engined coupe with a 3.0-litre C30A V6, good visibility, a clutch you could sit in traffic with and a service record that did not require a second income. Honda developed it with input from Ayrton Senna, and it is the chassis work rather than the power output that made its reputation. Later cars moved to the 3.2-litre C32B, though the automatic kept the 3.0 and the NA1 code to the end. US-market dating; sold as a Honda elsewhere.