It's good to have the real Acura back! It always seemed to me that Honda lost their focus after '95. They seemed to be shooting for some ill-defined, middle ground instead of leading. Before the '04 TL arrived, I had actually been looking at Audi and BMW for my next car and I was ready to defect to Lexus for fit and durablity even though I thought their styling rather drab.

I believe a car contains too high a concentration of resources to be considered disposable. Therefore, I tend to keep cars for at least ten years. Over the course of a decade true quality makes itself known. My wife is now driving my '95 Legend, which has just hit 100k miles, and I am driving a new TL.

In a couple of years, when our Legend is finally retired, I will probably look at the current RL (Real Legend). I, for one, feel it looks wonderful and would make the perfect family sedan for the next decade.

 

Yeah right! I'm kidding, it is fun. i saw the 06 GS at the auto show and it is very improved over the current model. I don't know why, but it just did not hit me??? I did like the M45. I think that the M45 will be the RL's competition. BTW the Infiniti web site has the M45 on it, with pricing...

 

The RL's main competition will be the M35/M35 AWD. Not sure why people keep insisting that it goes up against the V8 M45.

 

I don't know about low 40s, but price dropping and adding features from one gen to the other isn't unheard of. Anyone remember what happened from the 98 to 99 TL ????