[QUOTE="ACAR"] Here's the trick; find a shop qualified to fix an Acura NSX. Only a very few shops in my area are. Your insurance company will know these shops as should any Acura dealer. [/QUOTE] good idea - will do. btw, in a fit of nsx enthusiasm, i dug up this article: http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/cars/nsx.html my favorite quote is: "Oh, and by the way, I loved the comment about the NSX being engineered by "people who went to college." However, that's not quite accurate. Japanese education is a meritocracy, with entrance exam scores allowing you to get into a good Jr. High, High School, and University. Once you get into your college or university, though, you have nothing to study for four years. Instead, it is the Japanese citizen's one chance to kick back for a while and goof around. The passing of entrance exams into a given rank of college is the indication of the graduate's mental ability, dedication, perseverance, etc. No field-specific knowlege is really picked up, so you will find job applicants coming into engineering, for instance, with degrees in everything from biology to English to History. This may be a good thing. New engineers come in as complete neophytes, and soak up their company's particular style, method, and priorities. However, perhaps the bigger strength is that employees in Japanese companies are not engineers for life, as we do in the US. Workers will be moved from Engineering, to Sales, to Personnel. This may sound wasteful of talent, but the result is that most of the senior management of a Japanese firm will have the big picture. As Philip's article starts out commenting, people at the top will tend to think that the solution to problems is more people like themselves. This is true in Japan as well - but it doesn't mean "more MBAs." It means more generalists. And that is the main strength of Japanese firms, and their products, such as the NSX or Supra." i hope honda get back to that "generalist" thinking, because they sure did lose it a few years back with over-enthusiastic bean counting and under-enthusiastic engineering.