What Automotive Hero Do You Regret Meeting?

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We each person automotive heroes. Dream cars, supercars, cars we'd emotion to conscionable get 1 chance to thrust earlier we shuffle disconnected our mortal coils. Sometimes we're moreover fortunate capable to do so, to return nan instrumentality and genuinely meet those heroes — to understand their power, handling, and driving dynamics. But, unfortunately, that's not ever a bully thing. Sometimes, gathering your automotive leader conscionable leaves you disappointed. 

Today, we want to know: What automotive leader do you wish you'd ne'er met? Whether you climbed down nan instrumentality of a DeLorean only to find nan styling wrote checks that nan motor couldn't cash, aliases you imported an Autozam AZ-1 earlier learning you're simply excessively gangly for its gullwing doors, today's mobility is for you. What car do you wish had remained successful cleanable bedroom-poster shape successful your mind, unmarred by each of nan manufacturing issues, cost-cutting, and parts-binning of existent cars?

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I've been fortunate enough, successful my years connected this earth, to thrust some generations of Acura NSX. Neither thrust was nether perfect circumstances — I did astir 40 minutes of road successful an NSX Type S, and drove astir Brooklyn successful a first-generation car — but they were capable to springiness maine wildly varying opinions connected nan 2 cars. The second-generation NSX is almost surely nan champion car I've ever driven. The first generation, nan 1 truthful beloved by all... isn't. Now, nan car I drove had nary powerfulness steering. Its alignment could champion beryllium described arsenic concerning, and it collapsed soon aft my thrust (for reasons that were not my fault). It was a privately owned car, not 1 maintained for illustration a depository piece, but it was still a disappointment to really drive. Maybe I'll thrust a mint 1 someday, and get to update that opinion, but for now nan NSX stands arsenic nan automotive leader I wish I hasn't met.

What conveyance do you wish you'd ne'er driven? Cars, bikes, anything's connected nan array here. Leave nan automotive leader you wish you'd ne'er driven successful nan comments below, and I'll cod my favorites later successful nan week. Bonus points for stories.