Autocar, whose programming and editorial content we like very much, has a nice recurring segment called “Meet the Ancestors.” Couple of recent ones:
Don’t love this car (give us the NSX, instead), but it deserves respect for what it is, and what its competition largely isn’t: a technological tour de force, AWD barnstormer, and legitimate supercar challenger in a five-figure package. That said, we tend to be more old school, stripped-down guys (we like our Miatas, our E30 M3s, our aircooled 911s) and less “vorsprung durch technik”- hence the NSX (although it doesn’t escape us that the NSX itself was on the cutting edge of technology at its time).
Motoring Con Brio 
