Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "5 Controversial \"Supercars\" That Are(n't) Supercars!" video.

The 348, like the 308 and 328 that preceeded it, was intended to be a two-seater sportscar. Actually the "supercar" segment had been created by the Lamborghini Miura, and Ferrari's answer to the Miura had been first the 365 GT4 BB and then the 512BB (and it's successor had been the Testarossa/512TR), those were supercars. The 8cylinder Ferrari were not intended to be supercars, but affordable sportscar, for how much "affordable" a Ferrari could be.
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Except that the 348 was not a supercar either. All the 8 cylinder two-seater Ferrari (308-328-348-355 ecc...) were meant from the start to be sporty two seaters, not supercars. Even in the '70s you needeed to have a +300hp engine to make a supercar (The Miura, the first supercar, had, the Countach had, 512BB had, the Bora had, even the Pantera had). In the NSX's years Ferrari's supercar was the 512TR, and it's competitor was the Diablo, those were supercars.
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Judging a supercar by the number of cylinders, to me, miss the point. A naturally aspirated engine, to deliver power, needs displacement, and so has to be pluri-fractionated, but a turbocharged engine can produce +500bhp from 1.5l displacement. In this case to have more than 4 cylinders, is even detrimental. The 4C is not a supercar simply because they didn't push the engine enough. Had the four banger produced more than 400hp from the factory (like, with some tuning kit already on the market, it already does) the 4C would have been fully in supercar territory.
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Not all the Ferrari are supercars. Actually the "supercar" segment had been created by the Lamborghini Miura, and Ferrari's answer to the Miura had been first the 365 GT4 BB and then the 512BB (and it's successor had been the Testarossa/512TR), those were supercars. The 8cylinder Ferrari were not intended to be supercars, but affordable sportscars, for how much "affordable" a Ferrari could be.
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The NSX, like the F348, F328 and F308 (and all the 8 cylinder Ferrari) WAS NOT A SUPERCAR. All of them were sporty two seaters of the same class of the 911. Even in the '70s you needed more than 300hp to make a supercar (the Miura, the first supercar, had, the Countach had, the 512BB had, even the Pantera had). Ferrari's supercar back then was the 512TR, (that succeeded to the 512BB), and it's competitor was the Diablo. To make even more clear what the real target was, the NSX was even priced like the 911. It was not intended to be exclusive. It simply didn't sell. Almost half of the total production of the car in its 15 year lifespan had been made in the first year, because Honda grossly overestimated his potential sales, and so the plant that assembled them was way overbuilt. The interior argument is wrong. It's not the shape that makes a luxury interior, it's the materials, and the NSX was ergonomic and well built, but the materials were noting exceptional in respect to what Porsche and Ferrari used even in their sporty two seaters (not supercars), like many reviews of the time pointed out. The Merak, like the Urraco and the Ferrari/Dino GT4 was obviously not supercar. They were 2+2 mid engined sport cars, meant to be daily drivers. Maserati's supercar back then was the Bora.
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It's like saying that, since the Leon is the the fastest Seat, then the Leon has to be a Supercar. They were sporty two seaters. As with sedans or coupès, there are more and less fast of them.
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@cronoz-sensei4259 "reliability" is a broad term. What's unreliable in a car? If it's the electrical system I.E., then it has nothing to do with tuning the engine. THEN, even if an engine is more reliable than another, that doesn't mean the first can be tuned up,and the second can't. An engine can be reliable, but every part of it so tightly fit that you can't gain a further HP without screwing something important, while another one can be unreliable thanks to an easily replaceable/fixable part and, once it had been done, it can be pumped at will.
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It's like a famous enologist paid to help developing an energy drink saying "I think it's better than Brunello di Montalcino". It's advertising.
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@Redstoneprime316 The 300SL was a GT coupè, like a Ferrari 250GT, that had even a more powerful engine.
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Except that the 348 was not a supercar either. All the 8 cylinder two-seater Ferrari (308-328-348-355 ecc...) were meant from the start to be sporty two seaters, not supercars. Even in the '70s you needeed to have a +300hp engine to make a supercar (The Miura, the first supercar, had, the Countach had, 512BB had, the Bora had, even the Pantera had). In the NSX's years Ferrari's supercar was the 512TR, and it's competitor was the Diablo, those were supercars.
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Anton Peterson. Honda's target were surely the mid level Ferrari (the 328 originally, then the development took so long that the 348 was already an old model when the NSX came out) and the 911 (not by chance the NSX was priced directly vs the 911). At that time, the F40 had already divided that market in three, the Hypercars (street legal cars whose performances on a track could be compared only with another Hypercar), the Supercars (512TR, Diablo...) and the sporty two seaters. Nowadays, the former "sporty two seaters" (that would be the Huracan, or the F488) became so effective on track (they can easily beat former hypercars only few years old) that the name really doesn't give them justice any more. They can be called "performance oriented two seaters" (and that's why the Alfa Romeo 4C doesn't belong to this category either. That's a real present-days "sporty two seater", but it lacks at least 100hp to bring its 0-60 time well under 4sec and compete with these monsters).
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