Yahoo Autos Acura Chopped Up a Ferrari 458 to Study How it Was Built While Developing the NSX
Last month, we learned a funny story about the Porsche 911 GT3 bought by Acura for benchmarking against its new NSX. Now, we've just heard a story about another competitor's car Acura bought, but this one has a much sadder conclusion.
Acura bought a Ferrari 458 while it developed the NSX, which it subsequently chopped into pieces once NSX development was finished, per an Autocar report. The 458 was taken apart so Acura engineers could benchmark its aluminum construction, and pieces of the car apparently remain in bins at Honda's facility. An anonymous source told Autocar that Acura engineers were "quite impressed" with the 458's construction, for what it's worth.
Where Porsche responded with humor when it found out Acura was benchmarking one of its cars, we tend to doubt Ferrari will feel the same way about this.
