My Insight

[Eddie6th]

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It's better if you don't talk to me about Hondas....I'll drive you bananas!

[MyFirstES300]

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It's better if you don't talk to me about Hondas....I'll drive you bananas!

Actually, I am not too thrilled with the newer direction in body styles Honda has taken. I used to like the Civic until they overhauled it in 07'. I do not like the "cab forward" design where you cannot see the hood. Call me old school, but I like to be able to see some hood in front of me. I lost interest in the Accord after 2002.

I like Acura more so than Honda. My favorite all time car to date was my 1989 Acura Legend and to this day today I still miss it. It was my Dad's. I acquired it with 80,000 miles on it, put another 100,000 on it and decided it had to go when the nickel and dime repairs started to turn into the hundreds. I sold it in 2002, and that's when I started to get into Toyota's with my first 2002 Corolla which I still have today.

[Eddie6th]

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Actually, I am not too thrilled with the newer direction in body styles Honda has taken. I used to like the Civic until they overhauled it in 07'. I do not like the "cab forward" design where you cannot see the hood. Call me old school, but I like to be able to see some hood in front of me. I lost interest in the Accord after 2002.

I like Acura more so than Honda. My favorite all time car to date was my 1989 Acura Legend and to this day today I still miss it. It was my Dad's. I acquired it with 80,000 miles on it, put another 100,000 on it and decided it had to go when the nickel and dime repairs started to turn into the hundreds. I sold it in 2002, and that's when I started to get into Toyota's with my first 2002 Corolla which I still have today.

The new designs are very different.I like the new civ's.(typeR).The only ones I thought were a bit plain in appearance were the 6th gen's.I love the Integra(the older,early '90s).S2000 is beautifully designed,and it's a shame they stopped production of the NSX(especially it's involvment with Ayrton Senna)...The legends.I havn't seen one of them in ages!

You mentioned Acura. I know a little. It's american based. Are the hondas taken to acura, and then changed a little,like interior fittings etc? I'm interested to know about this.

I opened up a thread in the break room for eg5's,if you want to add your comments in there.

[agp423]

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How's the gas mileage treatin' ya?? I wish my car could get over 20MPG in the city haha

[Andrew C.]

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Nice work and nice pics, I like the angles you used!

[Maserati Mario]

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Ha! Thought you hade some words of wisdom! Insite, get it?

[Eddie6th]

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Ha,thanks for that. To be honest,I didn't really bother to much with close-up pics with this one,as it's a new car......but black!!!! It's hard to keep on top of it!

My civic is really easy in comparison.I'll be doing that soon,as soon as my exams are finished.

now + , next week.......

[Eddie6th]

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Nice work and nice pics, I like the angles you used!

thanks for the photographic compliments! I used to be into photography years ago(SLR's with film),but had to drop it,simply because i didn't have the time.

I think it shows how good these cameras are nowadays,I use it on dum-dum mode.Again,I just don't have the time to play around with them.The one thing I love using for photos is 'artweaver',but i don't enhance the car pics at all,unless it's a bad pic which is grainy or to dark/bright.The good thing with that program,apart from being free,is it's ease of use.It's user freindly,not like the pro. art programs.

Cheer's.ed.

[Eddie6th]

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How's the gas mileage treatin' ya?? I wish my car could get over 20MPG in the city haha

I had to get my conversion table here: It works out at about 51mpg (I hope?) .I know it's about 18Km/L. In this area there are a lot of hills and quite a bit of overtaking to do,so I could get even better,if I drove it differently.

Caddy---Nice ride! I'd have to be loaded to afford the gas,insurance and road tax over here.

[MyFirstES300]

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You mentioned Acura. I know a little. It's american based. Are the hondas taken to acura, and then changed a little,like interior fittings etc? I'm interested to know about this.

I don't think so. Acura is just a whole separate division. It's their "upscale" version of Honda, as Lexus is the upscale division of Toyota. Not to mention, a lot more expensive!

[Eddie6th]

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I don't think so. Acura is just a whole separate division. It's their "upscale" version of Honda, as Lexus is the upscale division of Toyota. Not to mention, a lot more expensive!

What would be a fair estimate/comparison between a civic typeR and an Acura equivalent,if that's possible?

[Eddie6th]

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Ha! Thought you hade some words of wisdom! Insite, get it?

That's quite clever!