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QUOTE=civicdrivr;16737198]Like everything you post - you're wrong.
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you seem to be another recarnation of @YEH who constantly needs spoon feeding. I showed 200mph from Acura website and there are videos of it going above 191mph but i reserve it for @YEH when and if she enter NSX discussion. if speed is fixed at 191 mph than it shouldnot go even 1mph above it right?
you seem to be another recarnation of @YEH who constantly needs spoon feeding. I showed 200mph from Acura website and there are videos of it going above 191mph but i reserve it for @YEH when and if she enter NSX discussion. if speed is fixed at 191 mph than it shouldnot go even 1mph above it right?
thats brand image and excitement of car. people buy and post video with 180 degree turns. No one bothered post video of aka floating boat G80 that need 275 series tires. and with non rotational sizes. they wears sooner and louder.
That Honda badge is playing with Aston Martin, Ferrrari, Lambo in Europe. with sky high resale values and high registration fees (high CO2 impact) that only upper class can afford. it is not hybrid or electric power to save money.
keep it simple with minimum electronics and no free stuff like at home pickup and delivery for free maintenance like in aka Genesis. No long term warrranties.
When brand does not have image than it put kitchen sink into vehicle and all kind of customization options with too many colors with too many wheel options.
Acura take it with 20inch rims. there is no small or big option on TLX Type S.
I prefer they produce even high powered TLX to compete with Honda Type R and sent it to Europe. They will gladly pay $100K. NSX is too expensive and limited support infrastructure.
I am still waiting for @YEH to join. as she used to babble about Acura sedans in another thread all the time. plenty of margin of safety relative to speed that is old pics. and those are current figures. not like 40K mile C&D tests.
How many Honda/Acura does someone like Shmee, or Ed Bolian, Casey Putsch own? The latter 2 being (multiple) Lamborghini owners.
It does not matter.
Honda/Acura only targets the secretive, none flashy, the unknown ultra riches who want to spend $100k on a sedan that no one would understand why. That is the goal...
These people want to spend a lot for the sake of spending a lot.
Honda/Acura only targets the secretive, none flashy, the unknown ultra riches who want to spend $100k on a sedan that no one would understand why. That is the goal...
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Yes, the secretive, none flashy, the unknown ultra riches who do this...
Kelley Blue Book data show Acura buyers cross-shop Toyota, Honda, Ford, Nissan and Mazda more than any premium brands, underscoring the gap between Acura and its intended rivals.
i Know you will show up here. There are owners of Honda and Acura whose insurance payments are more than there yearly BMW lease payments.
90% of tech IPOs and over 90% of tech unicorns concentrated in SF bay area and here Honda / Acura has the most and biggest dealers.
even if working for tech frim they have another S corp for family business and cars are titled on it.
All the S class sales have that TCP sticker behind it.
only Acura has brand image that people trade new Porsche. Only Honda can afford bigger dealership next to Audi.
LOL that guy is a moron. Acura has the most dealerships my ass. They don't even have a dealership in San Francisco. You have to tredge down to Colma to buy one, a bum city that literally has more dead people than living. The only other locations in Silicon Valley are in Redwood City and San Jose. So 3 total. Audi has 4 (SF, Burlingame, Palo Alto, SJ), BMW has 4 (SF, San Mateo, Mountain View, SJ), Mercedes has 3 (SF, Belmont, SJ). Hell even Land Rover has 3 (SF, Redwood City, SJ) and Volvo has 4 (SF, Burlingame, Palo Alto, SJ).
And Autobahn Motors (Mercedes/AMG) in Belmont and Peter Pan BMW in San Mateo make the Acura dealership in Redwood City look like chump change.
The Audi/Porsche dealership in Burlingame isn't as swanky, but doubt that Porsche buyers care that much as long as they can get their hands on one of the special Porsches.
LOL that guy is a moron. Acura has the most dealerships my ass. They don't even have a dealership in San Francisco. You have to tredge down to Colma to buy one, a bum city that literally has more dead people than living. The only other locations in Silicon Valley are in Redwood City and San Jose. So 3 total. Audi has 4 (SF, Burlingame, Palo Alto, SJ), BMW has 4 (SF, San Mateo, Mountain View, SJ), Mercedes has 3 (SF, Belmont, SJ). Hell even Land Rover has 3 (SF, Redwood City, SJ) and Volvo has 4 (SF, Burlingame, Palo Alto, SJ).
Do you really think Acura stupid enough to built dealership inside SF?. where is Lexus dealership inside SF?. SF is called 7X7 for reason. The Honda dealership inside SF are old one.
Colma has more dealerships than SF.
Acura has Marin dealership. Acura has new Oakland Dealership. outside Oakland.
The Acura and Ford Redwood city under same family and that dealership is near to Ferrari dealership. that is inside old Redwood city not the outside dump of JLR by 101.
Honda has San Carlos dealership new built.
Honda has San Bruno dealership deals with Millbrae.
Honda has Burlingame dealership deals with Hillsborough.
Honda has Palo Alto Dealership.
I am not going to count the East bay cities that has newly wealthy moving out. Unfortunately for Genesis they built dealership in that lovley place aka Richmond. where Acura will not even built dealership for free.
Must be why Acura barely sells anything at the $60k+ price-point and has the lowest ATP by far among the lux brands.
Gee, if that were the case, then why don't I see more Acuras in places like Atherton, Hillsborough and Woodside?
See tons of the GLS, X7, Range Rover, Cayenne, Model X - don't see too many MDX's and the few are usually owned by retirees.
Heck, see way more Escalade and Yukon XL Denalis than the MDX.
See more Odysseys than the MDX.
Honda is still selling that old 3.5 engine (timing belt) for higher price. that is called brand image.
while Hyundai and Kia has to bump up engine to 3.8 with 10 years warranty and introduce timing chains.
you dont have brand image thats why you need all kind of technology , free maintenance and long warranties to sell vehicles.
which Dealership has bigger and more premium land?. Both dealerships are on same road.
People and technicians test drive vehicles all day as all dealers are on same road next to SF.. so they need to built dealership that is more quieter and less road pollution.. infact the Acura dealership picture is not even correct. it is much further away from the road and up the hill. they made sure Honda dealership next to it is at lower level. This is called investment for higher brand image
Carmax is not up the hill relative to Acura. it was previous body shop there and they convert it. it not a ground up investment to create a land with a slope (i have the picture).. learn foundation and Soil Mechanics.
CarMax is dark cheap cave (Cannot afford cooling if make it glass building. This area gets fog and less sun. so even solar is not efficient).. where cars are overflowing in front. you are irrelevant babbling and dont even understand what i was writing about. and cannot contradict a single statement that i made. so much Germanic and Hyundi crap in the picture.
i Know you will show up here. There are owners of Honda and Acura whose insurance payments are more than there yearly BMW lease payments.
90% of tech IPOs and over 90% of tech unicorns concentrated in SF bay area and here Honda / Acura has the most and biggest dealers.
even if working for tech frim they have another S corp for family business and cars are titled on it.
All the S class sales have that TCP sticker behind it.
only Acura has brand image that people trade new Porsche. Only Honda can afford bigger dealership next to Audi.
1st, let me explain the reasoning for where I put the car seats. Wollie, who rides in a front-facing Britax Frontier high-back booster seat, often gets dropped off at the curb for school and camp — and I'm often the one doing it — so the passenger side makes logistical sense. I don't want him stepping out into traffic.
The occasions that I put Lola, who rides in a Maxi-Cosi Mico 30 infant car seat, in the Acura are rare. She doesn't have as many activities, and when she does, the whole family is usually involved. In such instances, my wife drives — she easily becomes carsick as a passenger. Plus she's got a bigger vehicle to better accommodate both kids. After all, that's why we bought a Hyundai Palisade. Furthermore, one of us has to get her out of the car, which is usually the driver, so the driver side makes sense for that reason, too.
The passenger seat in front of Wollie sees me with my knees close to, but not touching, the glove compartment. I could eat up a little more of Wollie's legroom to give me some more, but he's got big feet, and nobody likes getting their seat back kicked. Giving him that space looks like this for me (and this is actually my wife's normal seating position ... I just have long, weird legs):
Getting the larger car seat isn't too difficult, I just have to angle it in head-first before setting it in place. Then I have to install it. I've got a little room to work around the seat — or the car seat base — which help keep me from getting sweaty and angry (though the ventilated seats could remedy that after the fact).
The rear LATCH point is a little tough to reach with the booster's headrest in the way. This is actually the most tedious part of installing Wollie's car seat in any car, but in this sedan, I don't have to go around to open the rear liftgate and hope there's no cargo blocking the anchor point. In the TLX, I appreciate that the cover doesn't have to be removed. It's easy to lose those damned things.
I use the seat belt to secure the rest of Wollie's seat, but I use the lower LATCH anchors for installing the infant base. The lower anchors are hidden behind flaps of fabric that aren't held in place by anything. They're a little tricky to find by feel when you're reaching over a seat or base to attach to it, but it's never quite as difficult as I expect it to be when feeling around blind. I appreciate, again, that there are no detachable covers to lose, or attached covers to break. Once Lola's infant base is installed, it usually stays in place for multiple weeks at a time, so it's not something I have to deal with often. As for Wollie's Britax, which gets removed much more often, that seat is super easy to install with the seatbelt, so the lower LATCH anchor ease of use is a moot point.
After having a seat tethered for a couple weeks, the leather looks wrinkled. Not surprising, considered any car seat leaves its mark on pretty much any seat for some time afterward. It goes back to normal, eventually, especially if you have an adult sit on it for a while afterward.
When Lola's not in the car, I'm able to put my seat way back, as is my wont. At 6 feet even, my legs are long compared to my arms and torso. The photo on the left below shows how far back my seat sits normally. The photo on the right shows the amount of space I need to leave with her seat installed. I have to sit about 5.5 inches further forward to accommodate her. The tricky part is, I always have to move the driver seat forward first before I put her in. If I'm in my driveway, I can just set Lola down for a moment. If I'm on the street, I hold the weight of her and her seat in the crook of my arm while I adjust my seat to accommodate her. I love her.
Here's that what the driving position looks like normally, versus with the infant seat in place behind me. Normally, I've have the seat far back, with the steering wheel all the way down and telescoped out as far as it will go. With the car seat behind me, I push the wheel in and up to clear my bent knees.
As dramatic as that difference looks and feels to me, I can still drive an hour or two at a time like that. It feels odd at first, but it's not particularly uncomfortable, especially when using cruise control on the highway. It's navigating parking lots that's a little awkward with that steering wheel right in my lap and my legs more confined.
This wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me if I were considering a TLX as my daily driver. For my purposes, the occasional, minor discomfort isn't a terrible thing, especially with a larger vehicle in our stable. Sitting in front of a rear-facing car seat is almost always a compromise, with large midsize or full-size utility vehicles being the exception. I like the TLX enough — and it is roomy enough that I'd be happy to sit closer on short drives, and swap the positions of Lola's and Wollie's car seat for long drives.
And if I did that, I'd be a lot more comfortable. Here's what the high-back booster looks like behind my normal driving position.
I tried this out for a change, and I had to move my seat up an inch or so to give his clown feet some space, and to make it easier for him to get himself in and out, but that sure beats moving my seat forward almost 6 inches.
I love TH, started watching them more than Straight Pipes lately. Seems like the TLX-S is more of a disappointment than anything else at this point.
TH (and Thomas in particular) gives you way more feedback in terms of driving dynamics (and how the vehicle being tested compares to its competition) than TSP.
Cliché corner really doesn't tell you much of anything.
The S-Type just barely beats the turbo-4 Sonata to 60, only ties the N-Line in the 1/4 mi and gets beat by the N-Line in the roll and to 100 mph and 130 mi, as.well as getting bested in the top gear runs -- how sad.
Imagine if Hyundai had stuck an LSD in the N-Line like they should have done - the Sonata would walk away.
We all knew that TLX-S wont be the performance leader even before all the reviews, but I was not expecting it to be this bad.
Waiting for SSFTSX to come in and tell if that IF the Type S had skinnier tires and 18" rims or if the Sonata had 20" rims and wider all season tires... then TLX-S would run circles around the lowly Hyundai.
And I just noticed How Acura managed to give the MUCH BIGGER TLX significantly less passenger volume and a small trunk than the Sonata is beyond me..
07-13-2021, 07:35 AM
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The best seat in our long-term 2021 Acura TLX is the driver's seat (though it could be more supportive). It's a fun car to drive. But what if you have a family of four, with two children in car seats?
for the fat boy.
