oonowindoo

If Ford offered 30 Pintos in orange color, i am sure there will be 30 idiots out there to "reserve" it.

AZuser

30 cars in 24 hours. That's 1.25 cars sold/reserved per hour.

We're suppose to be impressed by that? Pfft!

4,190 Jeep Gladiators ($60,000) sell out in 24 hours. That's over 174 sold per hour.

3,500 Ford Bronco's sell out in under 24 hours. That's over 145 sold per hour.

500 Ford Mustang R-Spec's ($100,000) sell out within 24 hours. That's over 20 sold per hour.

80 Lincoln Continental's ($110,000) sell out in 48 hours . That's 1.67 sold per hour.

SSFTSX

Acura is selling special paint at much higher price for a car that is already out for 2 years.
The other are just new coming out or special versions.
Civic Type R special version also sold out very soon.

civicdrivr

iTrader: (9)

So you admit the only thing special about the RDX is the paint.

Glad we agree.

SSFTSX

Acura didnot claim any thing else apart from manual manufacturing. I am sure they have space as NSX is not selling in same volume. so it gives worker to practice manufacturing.

oonowindoo

So you are basically telling me that those ppl who bought are fucking idiots

oonowindoo

So you wanna pay more for something that has been practiced on?

civicdrivr

iTrader: (9)

But I thought the NSX was a premier supercar with excellent Honda engineering and Acura can't build them fast enough? Why do the workers have time to build a limited edition, nothing-special-but-the-paint small crossover when they are used to building high performance supercars?

Seems... weird.

oonowindoo

Acura only built 3, that is why they only sold 3... that is how you get exclusivity.

SSFTSX

its good to distribute skills around with different products as future there will be high performance models of every model.

kurtatx

So Acura is Lululemon now?!

civicdrivr

iTrader: (9)

Define high performance. Feel free to use benchmark examples from other brands.

SSFTSX

Honda Passport is higher performance vehicle. when you consider its height, its 20inch all season tire setup with non-turbo 280bhp engine.
Acura RLX hybrid is high performance vehicle. Honda has tremendous experiance for high performance vehicles in each category.

civicdrivr

iTrader: (9)

The Passport is a 2 ton crossover with little off road ability and a rough ride.

The RLX doesn't exist anymore. I guess it was just too good for the masses.

oonowindoo

Early 2000s Escalade with 26" Dubs must be Ultra High Performance vehicle.. it is taller than Passport with bigger wheels and tires and non turbo V8...

SSFTSX

it is relative to bhp. for 280bhp and non turbo engine. considering its size. Honda Passport is high performance vehicle in its category.
MDX hybrid also high performance vehicle for 7 seater and only 321bhp.

oonowindoo

So pretty much every car on the road is some kind of high performance vehicle

00TL-P3.2

I can't think of any metric in which any Honda SUV is 'high performance'

civicdrivr

iTrader: (9)

The Chevy Tahoe makes 420hp from its non-turbo motor. Therefore, it isn't just a high performance vehicle, it is a super truck.

-SSF logic

SSFTSX

Chevy Tahoe is very competitive but prices rising to $80K. it is getting closer to luxrious and more capable Offroaders.

Its all about price and category. You cannot expect Mclaren performance from Civic Type R as price points are widely different.

what is ground breaking about new Acura TLX is it has same turn radius as previous generation despite much wider, larger tires and wheel base with wide tracks.
just look at turn radius of wide sport cars. Alot of competitors dont publish turn radius. Acura/Honda right publish it.

look at Porsche Macan. It has shorter wheel base but longer turn radius than TLX.
https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/m...-models/macan/

SSFTSX

Not many electric and Plug ins in line up.

Honda achieves all-time high September deliveries in China
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Honda said its China retail sales volume leapt 22.3% from a year earlier to 168,872 units in September. In the three months of 2020's third quarter, the Japanese automaker consecutively achieved highest-ever unit sales compared to corresponding months of previous years.

justnspace

iTrader: (1)

you are contradicting yourself.

you just said you cannot expect mclaren performance from civic type r.

yet, you then compare the tlx to a macan.

no wonder why no one takes you seriously, except for YEH

SSFTSX

base Macan price is closer to TLX loaded.
while there is huge diffrence in Civic and Mclaren price.

justnspace

iTrader: (1)

no, sir. that's not how it works.
you are a walking contradiction

no one takes you seriously.

SSFTSX

Yeh how is fast moving in electric vehicle coming now?

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/10/12/...ery-fire-risk/

Hyundai Kona EV recall for battery fire risk expanding to N. America, Europe

kurtatx

Voluntary recall.

It’s better than the 0-60 in 6.5 seconds from Acura’s “sports sedan”

SSFTSX

This fire risk is associated with more and more vehicles presumbly with LG chem batteries. i will not buy fully electric vehicle untill solid state batteries are widely deployed.
Most people who will test drive TLX before buying it at dealer will not know major difference between V6 and this engine. plenty of oomph for 90% of people.
It didnot impact sales of RDX.
TLX you can buy with performance red pearl with beige interior while Tesla model does not give you that choice. nor i can stand this huge glass starting from back and with this big touch screen in middle. people are strained enough from computers.
Totally worthless product.

TSX69

https://acuranews.com/en-US/releases...-sales-results

American Honda Reports October Sales Results

• Release

November 3, 2020

• Sales of Acura cars increased 9.1% in October, fueled primarily by robust sales of the TLX (up 8.1%) as the all-new 2021 model completed its first full month on the market
  • Honda Passport sales gained 12.4% on the way to a new October record
    • Sales of the Honda Pilot climbed 22.1% in October, while Ridgeline jumped 28.5% for the month

American Honda Total

126,987
-3.4%

Cars

50,262
-6.9%

Trucks

76,725
-0.9%

Total

13,790
-1.2%

Cars

4,036
+9.1%

Trucks

9,754
-4.9%

Total

113,197
-3.7%

Cars

46,226
-8.1%

Trucks

66,971
-0.3%



See accompanying spreadsheet for complete results.





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SSFTSX

Honda is on roll in China. Plug In hybrids and Electrics are coming next year.

Honda?s China business posts 22.3% YoY jump in Oct. deliveries
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Honda Motor Co.,Ltd. said its China deliveries jumped 22.3% over a year earlier to 180,655 units in October, for the fourth month in a row achieving highest-ever monthly sales.

YEH

For Q2 (July-Sept), Acura incentives boosted to $6,334, while ATP basically remained flat at $40,172.

Incentive spending is slightly higher than for Lexus ($6,325) which has an ATP about $10k higher ($50,089).

Throw in the dealer discounts, and that's a lot of Acuras that can be had for cheap.

YEH

Yep.

Only an idiot would think that people living in such ultra-wealthy enclaves would be OK with the level of luxury and appointment something like the MDX provides, much less the RLX (oops!).

When it comes to CUVs/SUVs - it's the X7, GLS, Range Rover, Cayenne and the Model X, and for those going larger, the Escalade and Yukon XL Denali, with a spattering of the G-Wagon and Bentayga.

And unlike you, don't pull anything from arses.

Geeze, you're clueless.

Porsche has the highest margins in the industry by far (aside from solely supercar makers).

Porsche makes on average, $17kon every vehicle they sell.

In contrast, how much do you think Acura made last Q after hefty $6k+ incentives despite ATP stuck at $40k?

SSFTSX

Honda operating profits are $2..7B versus $3.8b operating profits. remember do conversion of pound and euro and operating profits can remove alot of fixed costs.
https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publ...n-sales/207934

Honda profits rose 28.5 per cent in last quarter despite drop in sales

However, the Tokyo-based company said its July-September operating profit was 282.9bn yen (Ł2.1bn), up 28.5 per cent year-on-year, despite sales revenue falling by 2.1 per cent to 3,651.3bn yen (Ł26bn).

Quote:

https://carbuzz.com/news/volkswagen-...tomakers-rally

Just like Deutch banks, Diesel gates, Sales manipuations (Aka BMW). Germany corporate world is full of crooks and all the figures are highly suspect.

Quote:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany...ve-11596056696

YEH

And one continues to sell at around a 4k/month pop and the other one was discontinued (even among low ovrerall RLX sales, the "high performance" hybrid was an even slower seller).

SSFTSX

I live around there. Dont make fool of yourself. I can easily take pictures of people driveways as it is hilly area.
There plenty of venture capitalists on Sand Hill road that have Acuras
German so unreliable crap that no one will take it for trips.


https://www.autoevolution.com/news/f...tsx-25276.html

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Drives an Acura TSX

SSFTSX

YEH

LMAO! !

Only someone as deluded as you would think Zuckerberg driving around in a TSX (and an older one at that) is typical for such enclaves.

Zuckerberg is also known to drive around in GTI and Prius.

He drives around in such modest vehicles to escape attention (it's like attorneys who drive to court in their other car, something like a Buick, because they don't want the jury to see them rolling up in their Benz).

But while Zuckerberg is not a car collector like Bill Gates, he still treated himself to a $2.5 million Pagani Huayra (funny how you completely forgot to mention that), and also has a custom Mercedes van when he gets driven around by his security detail.

You really think someone who owns a $150 million dollar yacht is driving a TSX or GTI or Prius if it weren't for a specific reason (to avoid attention)?

Steve Jobs didn't want to put regular plates on his car, so every 6 months he would get a new car with temp plates (either a 911 or AMG).

SSFTSX

Larry Elison also used to gift Acura NSX every year. These people are influenced by venture capitalists who drive the wealth but with stealth.
There plenty of Acuras in parking lots of high salary people in Bayarea. Thats the reason Acura has more dealers than any one else in SF bayarea.
Anderson Honda is largest volume dealer in Northern California and it is located in Palo Alto next to Audi dealership.
Your continously embrassing your self by talking about things where you no idea.

SSFTSX

Obama highest officials who rescued Wallstreet and Auto manufacturers were driving Acura/Honda.

YEH

Please, the people who buy Acuras are mostly in San Mateo, Redwood City, San Carlos, etc.

In places like Hillsborough, Atherton, Woodside, may see a few MDXs, but other than that, any Acura is for a kid or the nanny's vehicle (often the RX, MDX or a minivan).

Acura barely sells any vehicles in the $60k+ price-range nationwide.

There's always the exception of people who don't care about cars and just drive an old beater no matter whether they can afford something a Bentley or Rolls (or drive their bearer as their daily and have a Porsche or something even more expensive as their fun vehicle.

SSFTSX

Do you live there that making baseless observations?
Its the lease and reliability that matters to people here who change vehicle often. There weekeneds are too important to deal with vehicle pick and drop at dealers. They dont care what is final price of the vehicle.

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