Ayrton Senna has always made excellent choices in his personal vehicles. One of them was the 1991/1992 Honda NSX Type R, a model created to rival the Ferrari at the time. The Japanese sports car had the participation of the three-time champion in its development. It is currently owned by an Englishman who put the rare vehicle up for sale.
The sports car imported from Japan is being advertised on the British vehicle buying and selling website Auto Trader, for the value of 500 thousand pounds, equivalent to about R$ 3.2 million in direct conversion. The owner, Robert McFagan, has had the model for more than ten years.
The car was given to Senna during his time at McLaren, but he didn’t use it much. When the partnership between McLaren and Honda ended with the entry of Ford into the team at the end of 1992 to 1993, the automaker requested the return of the car.
The NSX’s engine is a 3.0-liter aspirated V6, which generates 273 hp and 29 kgfm with a five-speed manual transmission. Currently, the former driver’s Japanese sports car has about 63,000 km on the clock.
The red NSX was Ayrton Senna’s personal vehicle when he visited his mansion in the Algarve, Portugal. However, this wasn’t the Brazilian driver’s only NSX. In Brazil, he also owned a black Honda NSX, with the license plate “BSS 8888”, which he used on his visits to the country, as well as another NSX acquired by his then manager Antônio Braga, which was stored in Portugal for 17 years.
The current owner of the red NSX, Robert McFagan, acquired the car in 2013 and has owned it ever since. “I first bought the car in 2013 during a trip to the Algarve in Portugal and have owned it ever since, where it is proudly stored on my property in East Sussex. Senna’s red NSX was given to him by Honda, with whom he had a business partnership, and Senna used it frequently and was photographed with the car during his stays in Portugal.” McFagan is believed to be only the second owner.
May 1st marks the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna da Silva’s death, which occurred in Imola, Italy, when the driver crashed at the Tamburello curve at more than 230 km/h.
