A V6 just isn’t special enough for a supercar, hybrid system or not. Especially when your competition is the sonorous R8 V10, or the spaceship 570S.

It’s a real Honda/Acura unlike the Supra which not a real Toyota.

I’ll admit the NSX (insert difference here), but that’s not worth 100 grand.

but can someone explain why it hasn’t really resonated with people?

Was the real point of his tweet, completely unaddressed by the article. In the days that we’ll be talking about this one event, many more will die in other ways that don’t get a single mention.

The Honda/Acura I fell in love with allowed for easy swapping of components because so much of it was a shared platform. Taking an existing larger/more powerful engine from another vehicle in their lineup and putting into a something smaller is a quick and easy fix. This is something that Acura has passed up and…

Look at their most recent example with the Stinger. A quick and exciting car that in the right trim will beat a Mustang GT. All that while still being attainable.

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.

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?

the W stands for “WHY?”

FTFY

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Shopping at the end of the month is outdated as well.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.