shaf

If you haven't read this already, check it out! I'm pretty sure it has not been mentioned on this forum at all, so all the newcomers have missed out

http://hondanews.com/forms/acura/TSX...h+currentacura

Read the whole thing. There is a ton of information, from both an engineering and sales perspective. For every cool feature, it not only explains how it works, but why it was chosen to be a part of the TSX.

There are lots of random interesting facts. I like how the doors closing were specifically engineered to have the "thunk" sound because people always associate it with quality

larchmont

I see it's dated 3/6/03. I hadn't seen it before, but, as I remember, that basic information and impressions from it were posted on the old site around the early part of the year, certainly by March. The reason I say this is that even though I didn't see that stuff, I basically knew it all by then, and the old site was the source for almost all of my knowledge on the car. From that stuff, I felt I basically knew what the car would be like (just as you could get a very good idea by reading the stuff on that link). I was reserving judgment because you never really know until you try the car (as I've been saying about the new TL), but as it turned out, the TSX really is basically exactly what you would have guessed from that info. That's not always the case.

Count Blah

That's good stuff.

Brad

Thanks Shaf! We're always getting new members all the time, not all of whom have had the advantage of seeing these older articles--myself included!

larchmont

Oh, I almost forgot -- here's something interesting from the first part ("Introduction"):

Acura TSX target buyer demographics:

* percent male
* Median age 33 years
* 55 percent married
* 85 percent college educated
* $80,000 median household income

(That's verbatim. I didn't change anything.)

See what they did? They left out the number of "percent male." Must have been just an oversight, but it's funny because this has been one of the controversial things -- what gender proportion was Acura aiming at? On the old site, some people had a steel-cage match with a reviewer over it.

finalheaven

Hopefully minmum 70% males...