There is no reason that any of the sedans Acura has made in the last 10 year had to be so damn boring both visually or in driving dynamics. As an engineer, I flatly refuse to accept emissions as an answer.
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In fact, every single car you listed is short of the C8 falls into that category in this conversation.
Acura has really lost their way and not had an exciting product in a long long time.
Why is the Supra all of a sudden overpriced?
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I’ve owned 1 American car (a ‘99 Wrangler) and 1 German car (‘02.5 Jetta), the rest have been Japanese. I have 4 cars right now, all Japanese.
I want her to look at the 4runner but she [wrongfully] claims it is too much of a mom car.
The biggest expense of car ownership isn’t interest, it’s depreciation.
Point being, just buy at any time? I’m in no rush, I’ll gladly take the chance to “score on a desperate dealer”. If no desperate dealers exist, I still get the same deal at the end of the month.
“Four fill-up’s” at ~$50/each and “a motel or two” at $75-100 a night is $300-400. Which implies a shipping distance of 1500-2250 miles (2-3 days of driving), because any adult can drive 750 miles a day on US interstates.
Shopping at the end of the month is outdated as well. Unless the place is struggling, most have already hit their marks so the urgency isn’t any higher to close that last car.
If you never set foot in the dealer you have not seen their best deal.
Until you walk out with the keys anything is still possible. Until you do so, the deal is not done.
I live in Denver and have an affection for RWD sport sedans, so I’ve flown to Georgia for my last two Lexus GS’s (‘11 GS460, ‘15 GS350). But that’s on the used market, not new, and I can be in Georgia on a Saturday morning and pulling into Denver Sunday night. My ‘00 NSX was in Queens NY, that one took 3 days to drive…
The deal isn’t done until the keys are in your hand, so the term still applies.
Your biggest weapon is the ability to walk.
“Why is Honda not building more Civic Type R models? I have searched and searched in 100 miles radius of my area and every time, I only find 4 to 5 Type Rs for sale and they all have a markup of 4K to 10K.”
My issue isn’t with an inability to fix the issue after their customers are subjected to it. Although that appears to be part of the problem with these transmissions.