The correct party to blame is not ‘the coronavirus’ or ‘cars being parked for extended periods of time’. It is ‘ass-holes, who don’t feel that working hard in order to buy something is a viable option’.  

It’s sort of comical how they try to spin it as more committed to the Accord and Civic and try to harken back to when those cars put Honda on the map.

Thank you. I came here to poke fun at the same thing.

My appologies if something I said rubbed you wrong. I think these sort of sites are littered with keyboard-warriors who choose to to just complain about things or make claims without ever suggesting how they would fix it or do it differently. I read your comment to be similar. In reality, it wasn’t clear to me if you…

Do you have a suggestion to accompany what I would call an absurd claim? How would you react in the precense of an angry mob with that anger directed at you?

I have a 78 Fiat 124 Spider that is currently a semi-retired Chump-Car. It’s sort of a Miata.

I literally have:

I guess the final step in their vision is that you have to swipe a credit card just to start the car... every time.

The best part about all of this is that you still pay for all of the hardware to support these bullshit features they will want you to pay to use. You can’t have an adaptive cruise subscription, if you don’t already own the hardware. So effectively, you are paying to use your hardware, that you already paid for.

So, I actually tried to go the extra mile and ask them for the MT directly. Surprsingly enough, they actually replied. I’m impressed that they took the time to at least tell me ‘no’. I doubled down and asked for a body-in-white program instead.

Agreed. Best look production car out there IMHO. Sadly, when I went wagon shopping: a) you couldn’t find one to drive b) they are very expensive and c) they only have two pedals. Instead I now have an unquestionably less attractive 2019 Golf SportWagen but it has AWD and a 6MT.  

When people really began to show their stupidity en-masse.  

Audi is going to sell something like 58 of these things becuase they are > $100k and you can’t drive one first. Then they’ll give up on wagons again, saying, ‘See, stupid americans won’t buy em!’.

This good news is that if you get in on your hands, it will wash of in about 6 months. 

If you didn’t want to waste time, you might consider having the machine shop check concentricity of the main journals.  If needed it could be line-bored.  I would call it cheap insurance. 

I will hazard a guess that your veiwpoint probably won’t resonate with most of this crowd, but I sincerely appreciate hearing from someone with direct involvement and actual experience, rather than the typical keyboard warrior often on this forum.

Not to sound like I’m playing violin for large corporations, but there are so many more factors invovled in what is happening than capitalism that your post seems disingenuous.