If oonly Acura would give this a shot
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If oonly Acura would give this a shot
For very little cost, Lexus gets a huge amount of publicity.
Enthusiasts pay for the design and mock up work and Lexus racks up countless extra sales. If Acura was smart enough to offer the same project then think of all the possibilities.
Oh well.
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Enthusiasts pay for the design and mock up work and Lexus racks up countless extra sales. If Acura was smart enough to offer the same project then think of all the possibilities.
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This is Acura we're talking about, remember? They'll never go for it.
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Back when I sold Acuras I met with a bunch of guys, some of whom didn't really speak English, about the ASPEC stuff. They had great ideas but from what I could tell they were badly underfunded and had to run to Japan for everything and didn't get the warmest of receptions. Road and Track just placed the IS-F 4th out of 4 in their roadtest.
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Originally Posted by CL6
Back when I sold Acuras I met with a bunch of guys, some of whom didn't really speak English, about the ASPEC stuff. They had great ideas but from what I could tell they were badly underfunded and had to run to Japan for everything and didn't get the warmest of receptions. Road and Track just placed the IS-F 4th out of 4 in their roadtest.
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IS-F is another miserable attempt to match performance german cars. Lexus tried to pull something similar with IS300 debut, but people quickly dissed it by saying, "good try but not quite". Same thing this time around. I've not driven IS-F, but it just smells like a poor mock up job that put a bigger engine in IS and a few body parts and they just called it a day. I am sure it performs good enough, but not enough to justify its cost, IMO.
Unless Acura takes the approach of building a real performance sedan from ground up, a mock up job would probably end up in disaster. I think we will just see something similar with what's happened to TL-S. Awesome looking car with many reported problems that Acura just turns its head away from.
Will Acura take the time to really make a mark on performance sedan? I doubt it from what I've seen in the last a few years...I am sure we can count on fancier accords and civics in the future though.
Unless Acura takes the approach of building a real performance sedan from ground up, a mock up job would probably end up in disaster. I think we will just see something similar with what's happened to TL-S. Awesome looking car with many reported problems that Acura just turns its head away from.
Will Acura take the time to really make a mark on performance sedan? I doubt it from what I've seen in the last a few years...I am sure we can count on fancier accords and civics in the future though.
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Originally Posted by xenonhid
I think LEXUS has perfected the art of Balancing LUXURY + PERFORMANCE.
Of course, this is merely one mans opinion, and as we well know, everyone's got one of those....
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It's also $20,000 more than the base IS350 and $26,000 more than the IS250. Load it up and you're over $65,000. I'd rather have an M3. Plenty of cars to choose from at that price.
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Originally Posted by lland
Load it up and you're over $65,000. I'd rather have an M3. Plenty of cars to choose from at that price.
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Originally Posted by CL6
It's not the car, it's the marketing of the car that matters to the unwashed masses.
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