The End of An Era
12-23-2022, 11:06 AM
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12-24-2022, 06:15 PM
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12-24-2022, 07:45 PM
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Absolutely no doubt about that, especially after talking to Lexus and BMW owners. If I do wind up with a 2022 or 2023, I want the Phytonic Blue with the Cognac interior. I've seen that Blue around and I love it. The car before the TL was a 1989 Accord SE-i coupe in blue-green that was a take-off on the Accord Export Edition which Honda made in Ohio and shipped to Japan. It was the only Accord ever built to have audio controls on the steering wheel and a stick in the same car prior to 2002. The BMW Phytonic blue is the closest to that.
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12-25-2022, 11:40 AM
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Met a friend of Paul's this morning who used work at a local Acura Dealer and used to be on AcuraZine. He said Acura's days are over since they haven't kept up with the rest of the industry, hybrid technology, extreme lack of color choices,etc. . He had a 2018 X3 which he let me drive, and I instantly hooked! Then he told me how BMW treats him every time he comes in, just like Lexus. He says Acura s gradually been losing customers and they could take lessons in customer support from Lexus
12-25-2022, 11:48 AM
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He told me what a small world that he bump into you and Paul, I do agreed with him tho as Acura lost their way with not only customer service the current line up are lack luster in term of performance and Techs. Acura treated the market has been frozen in time as if we are still in 2015.
01-07-2023, 01:02 PM
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ouchbummer
ouch. Kinda looks similar to the deer strike I had Dec of 2021.
only caved the drivers headlight and neatly spun the goof around to take out the passenger side, cracking up the bumper cover along the way BUT SPARING the belts and AC grill (but not rad), caving in the pass. A pillar with skull/antlers and shearing off the pass. ext. mirror on the way into the ditch. A-pillar cave in (bloody HARD METAL, prob leave it, too deep to spackle) also meant windshield fractured not caved in though.
Hard to explain the 'fortunate' level of damage and wrap around kind of damage, no frame straightening needed, wheel alignments, etc. Baffling but as far as damage goes, am ok with it. No critical and hard to get parts other than junkyard drivers HID cover and rad of course, repaired and primed up the bumper myself.Just a bit of driver side front 1/4panel skew still at the drivers mirror...
A borrowed come-along brought the top of the rad support framework forward into place again (he was scooped along by the hood as well)
decided not to paint the dark blue junkyard hood replace. , didt look too bad actually, kinda copcar like blending into dark glass and dark sunroof patterns
I was hoping to keep this Canadian '04 TL for the rest of time, dont think we get a choice now the pos ruining canada is soon going to ban combustion engines any way
Guess you become a lexus 'zine member now?
01-07-2023, 04:35 PM
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One on the right for me
He told me what a small world that he bump into you and Paul, I do agreed with him tho as Acura lost their way with not only customer service the current line up are lack luster in term of performance and Techs. Acura treated the market has been frozen in time as if we are still in 2015.
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01-09-2023, 08:47 AM
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I really wanted to get another Acura (made a relatively unplanned new car purchase last week) but was not impressed with the current line up and the pricing. I considered a TLX Type S but no plug in hybrid option. Acura didn't get more than 1-2 minutes of passing consideration. Oh well.
01-09-2023, 09:30 PM
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One on the right for me
I did look at the Integra (had two when I was younger) but not with any serious intention to purchase. Still have the TL when I want to drive stick.
01-10-2023, 06:55 AM
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The consensus is what I expected, the new Teggy just a newer tech car with nothing to write home about. The only thing let it stand out in 2023 is manual trans which most of us here prefer the 3G TL manual trans anyway.
01-10-2023, 07:18 AM
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