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It is the supercar Oracle founder Larry Ellison used to give as a gift.
The adventures of former Oracle CEO Larry Ellison are recounted His assets include everything from luxury mega yachts to fighter jets to its own Hawaiian island.
However, what is even more interesting are the things that titan of Silicon Valley chooses to give as gifts.
Ellison has long been a fan of Japanese culture, it owns a 86 million villa in Kyoto, Japan, and up to 500 Japanese art pieces It should come as no surprise that vehicle with four wheels favorite the founder of Oracle is one that many believe to be the Japanese supercar par excellence, the Honda Acura NSX.
In fact, Ellison would buy some of those 80,000 rides per year 15 years of the model production cycle to give to friends and top employees as gifts and premiums, Complex magazine and USA Today report.
So what makes the NSX worthy of adulation Ellison Well, for one thing, it's a pedigree.
In late 1980, the parent company Honda -Acura - was unbeatable, but in the world of Formula One racing drivers of company drivers propelled six consecutive world championships and five drivers Constructors World Championships.
To celebrate its success, the company has built what it believes to be the perfect supercar would be fast, high-tech, lightweight and accurate in processing would also help bring a level of reliability and usability unseen in European supercars day.
The NSX 2004 3 2-liter, 290 horsepower V-6 Acura.
Power of the NSX come from a 270 horsepower - later 290 - V-6 in charge of engineering derived from Honda's F1 adventure.
To make the car agile, Honda has built most of its supercar lightweight aluminum.
To manufacture the sleek body of the NSX, the company relied on its lead designer Ken Okuyama, a man who would turn Ferrari to create a million dollar Enzo Ferrari hypercar a decade later.
With the manipulation of paramount importance for Honda, the company asked its stable of Formula One talent to help frame the NSX was introduced by none other than the great Ayrton Senna, who is unfortunately no longer with us, he died in a racing accident in 1994.
F1 legend Ayrton Senna has the NSX prototype to the test on an Acura test track.
From 1990 until he was arrested in 2005, the cult favorite has remained relatively stable, with only a lighthouse design before update in 2002 As a result, the NSX has remained true to its original theme of lightweight precision , Japanese.
In an age of high-powered supercar, the NSX goes about his business in a Japanese way really underestimated No V-12 engines Turbos No No AWD - and for a long time, no power steering Just pure driving pleasure.
So why Larry Ellison loves NSX Probably because he is taking provocative Honda for its European and American competitors.
the brash and aggressive style Knowing Business Ellison, that sounds like something he would understand.
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