The Honda NSX was a classic the day it was born. With its perfect proportions and those sleek lines, it is the archetype for the mid-engined sportscar.

With hypercars spilling out of Italy and England, it's all quiet on the NSX front. Why?

While the supercar world is buzzing away with LaFerraris, Venenos and P1’s, Honda’s NSX concept remains in its own alternate universe, where things move with slightly less urgency. The urgency, that is, of a glacier on downers.

The NSX may be older than the Czech Republic and have a fraction of the horsepower of a whopping 945 hp compared to the Ring’s latest darling, the 1,200-horsepower Koenigsegg Agera R, but here’s what it can do in capable hands and under capable feet: a 7:56 lap.

Russian dict-, excuse me, President-elect Vladimir Putin is well-known for striking an incredible array of James Bond poses for the camera, including but not limited to driving a Formula One car and riding a trike with a gang of bikers.

When Ferrari introduced the 599 GTB at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show, they introduced with it a graceful and elegant piece of aerodynamics: Gothic flying buttresses for C-pillars. They are gone on the F12 Berlinetta, the 599’s just-unveiled successor, but Honda is here to pick up the slack with the NSX.

That blue tarp in the shape of a supercar reflected in the glare of Honda’s teleprompter is the car we’ve been waiting about a hundred years for. It’s the new NSX moments before its reveal! We’re very pleased to be here with it too.

There are 22-year-old cars and then there is Honda’s ethereal NSX, still as mellow and brutal, as sleek and industrial as back in the day when Ayrton Senna was still around to contribute his magic to its chassis.

Specifically, a yellow Acura NSX equipped with a snorkel, a diffuser, and a track pass. You figure it out. Just please don’t leave it by a dumpster.

This Acura NSX is all alone in the big bad world, left next to some dumpsters to rot. Well, it can't actually rot since it's all aluminum, so like other supercars left to die across the Arabian peninsula, it's decorating yet another forsaken Dubai development.