2005 NSX meets 2017 NSX

It's not every day you get two amazing cars together like this.

This is a 2005 NSX, 290 horsepower and one of the last imported to the US.

The two share a lineage and a core concept: the everyday supercar.

We got them both on the track at Thermal Springs, in California.

The new car is immensely fast, far more so than the old car.

But it's the old car that's just that much more engaging.

Both are amazing weapons, though.

And amazing cars.

Consider yourself lucky if you get to drive either.

And this is the new NSX, a 573-horsepower beast with impeccable engineering.