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Old 10-25-2015, 11:09 AM
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Seriously?

I just received a 5" x 8" envelope from Acura containing a full color, single piece of cardboard about "Innovation". In the fine print it talks about the RLX as Acura's new flagship vehicle, and then says "Soon, it will be available in a Sport Hybrid SH-AWD model...". Seriously?
Old 10-25-2015, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by fsmith
I just received a 5" x 8" envelope from Acura containing a full color, single piece of cardboard about "Innovation". In the fine print it talks about the RLX as Acura's new flagship vehicle, and then says "Soon, it will be available in a Sport Hybrid SH-AWD model...". Seriously?
Are you seriously surprised?
Old 10-25-2015, 02:16 PM
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Further proof that Acura's marketing of their supposedly RLX Flagship is a big fat mess.
Old 10-25-2015, 03:12 PM
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Shaking my head. Wow.

Acura's marketing on the RLX sometimes seems as bad as my Cleveland Browns this season.

At least Acura sent me a 1st anniversary card for my lease in the last week. They can't be all bad.
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Originally Posted by holografique
Are you seriously surprised?
Not surprised, but amazed after all this time.
Old 10-25-2015, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by neuronbob
At least Acura sent me a 1st anniversary card for my lease in the last week. They can't be all bad.
Yes, I got one of those 1st anniversary cards last week, just days before this mailing announcing that (my) RLX SH-AWD would be out real soon! WTF? Are these mailings from the same company?
Old 10-25-2015, 05:14 PM
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I love getting mailers for the car I already own (RDX in this case).
Old 10-26-2015, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by neuronbob
Shaking my head. Wow.

Acura's marketing on the RLX sometimes seems as bad as my Cleveland Browns this season.

At least Acura sent me a 1st anniversary card for my lease in the last week. They can't be all bad.
or the Houston Texans.
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Originally Posted by miner
or the Houston Texans.
Indeed. No SH SH-AWDs to be had, or so I was told.

I get the feeling that Honda would just rather Acura fail
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take a pic!!
Old 10-27-2015, 09:42 AM
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Super duper marketing and sales people go where the money is. Unfortunately the money isn't at Acura right now. Kia, Hyundai and Mercedes are magnets for the extremely talented marketing and sales people these days, simply because there is tons of money there. For Acura to fix their marketing issues they need to attract top marketing talent and for that to happen they should throw tons of money at it, which I doubt.

PS. I get f*k all in the mail up here in Canada. Actually I don't think I even got the latest Acura magazine. Did they stop mailing those out too?
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