I always accounted the low sales to the insanely stupid price tag they put on it when it first came out. That, coupled with people's perceptions of a japanese "exotic" sports car at the time really hurt them in the US.

Did it fail in the US market? Yeah, pretty much. But sales aside, it's still a hell of a car, performance-wise. If it wasn't still a fundamentally good car, I doubt Honda would have kept it essentially the same in their home market for as long as they did.

I'm sure Honda sold more than enough Accords in the US to float anything they lost with the NSX, so it's a tad moot.