Haven't see this posted here...if so, sorry about the double post.

2004 Tl pics on MSN Autos

 

haven't been posted but there the same pics on hondanews.com or every other site..

 

I must be the only one to have missed this group of photos. Thanks.

 

New TL is going to be launched as new HONDA Inspire soon.
HONDA Web site has an interesting picture.
http://www.honda.co.jp/newINSPIRE/scoop/index.html

Please move your cursor on the black picture.

 

No, that new inspire is based on TSX/Euro Accord.

 

Not saying your wrong, just wondering how you know?

 

I think I read it somewhere else (was it VTEC.net?). Plus, look at the shape/size of everything.

 

I am not sure what are the differences between new US TL and new Japan Inspire yet.
HONDA says that they will update the new Inspire in three weeks, then I will let you have the information about new Inspire because some of this forum members may be interested in it.

 

Yeah - it looks like an Accord.

 

It's based on US ACCORD. (Thanks to Edub for the job)

 

amfjabe, do you live where they make yokohama tires by any chance?

 

hold up~

looking at the picture.. it looks like the new Honda (JP) Inspire is the 2003 Honda Accord (US)

and if you look carefully at the Honda Japan site, the new Accord is the TSX design

 

sweetride01,

Do you like to know the manufacturing locations of Yokohama Tire?
Please find some informatation bwlow.

BTW, I have changed my tires to Yokohama DNA dB last month.
This tire is very silent and great in wet condition.
http://www.yokohamatire.jp/yrc/japan...dna/dna_db.jsp

Yokohama Tire plant information.
They have several manufacturing facilities in the world.
In Japan they have 7 plants but at 4 out of 7 makes tires for passenger cars.
They also have plants in north America and Asia.
Information follows.

[Japan]

Mishima Plant
Established: March 1946
Address: 8-1 Minami Futsuka-machi, Mishima City, Shizuoka Prefecture (120km west of Tokyo)
Tel. 0559-75-0800
Main products: Tyres for passenger cars and light trucks; racing tyres

Mie Plant
Established: June 1944
Address: 1038 Takamuki, Misono-mura, Watari-gun, Mie Prefecture (400km west of Tokyo)
Tel. 0596-28-3151
Main products: Tyres and inner tubes for trucks, buses, passenger cars, light trucks and industrial vehicles

Shinshiro Plant
Established: July 1964
Address: 1, Aza-Furuyashiki, Noda, Shinshiro City, Aichi Prefecture (300km west of Tokyo)
Main products: Tyres for passenger cars and light trucks

Onomichi Plant
Established: October 1974
Address: 20, Higashi-Onomichi, Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture (800km west of Tokyo)
Main products: Off - the - road tyres

[USA]
YOKOHAMA TIRE CORPORATION
Plant
1500 Indiana Avenue, Salem, VA 24153, U.S.A.
Tel: +1(540)389-5426 / Fax: +1(540)375-0213 / Toll Free: +1(800)433-9851

GTY TIRE COMPANY
Plant
General Tire Mount Vernon Plant
Highway 142 South, Mount Vernon, IL 62864-0022, U.S.A.
Tel: +1(618)242-7100 / Fax: +1(618)242-8977

[Asia]
YOKOHAMA TIRE PHILIPPINES, INC.
Plant
IE5, Clark Special Economic Zone Clark Field, Pampanga, PHILIPPINES
Tel: +63(45)599-36039 / Fax: +63(45)599-3613

YOKOHAMA TYRE VIETNAM COMPANY
Plant
Tan Thol Hiep Ward 4, District 12, Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM
Tel: +84(8)7171427 / Fax: +84(8)7171427

SC KINGFLEX CORPORATION
MIAO LI Factory
91 Chung Hsing Rd., Chung Hsing Industrial South Zone Tung Lo. Miao Li, TAIWAN, R.O.C.
Tel: +886(37)22-2986 / Fax: +886(37)22-2985

HANGZHOU YOKOHAMA TIRE CO., LTD.
Plant
Economy and Technology Development Region, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
(Start of operation, May 2003)

 

If you click this link http://www.honda.co.jp/newINSPIRE/
And hit the little red arrows a couple of times it looks like the Inspire has adaptive cruise control. I wish I could read Japanese.

 

I thought sweetride01 was joking.

 

No, I'm actually semi-serious.

(Thats half joke, half interest)

 

The red arrow explains about Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS) and E-Pretensioner seatbelt retraction mechanism that will be equipped for new Inspire.
Please find the detail at http://world.honda.com/news/2003/4030520.html.

 

Anyway, I am glad to know that you have interest in a Japanese tire manufacturer.

 

If you cannot jump to this link, please go to http://world.honda.com/news/2003/ and then find the news dated 5/20/03.

 

no need to look carefully, everybody knows the tsx is the euro/japanese accord.