Saw a new Accord sedan in the flesh

[Vinsanity]

I just have to say, I think it's completely retarded that depreciation is calculated even before a new model comes out - based purely on the name of the car - people are just assholes.
(not your parents, just all people (BTW, I'm not saying your parents aren't people - I'm sure they are good people (I hate people, but I'm not saying I hate you parents (I don't even know your parents))))

don't you be talkin bout my momma, fool

edit: I agree with you. Depreciation sucks balls. It's the reason I allowed them to convince me out of a 2007 Anything.

[Hev]

Saw a black one yesterday and it looks pretty good in real life, a bit on the big side....definately not ugly, just not the emotion a mazda 6 carries.  Honda consumers wanted a bigger and roomier accord and honda delivered.

[omicron]

How is Toyota able to use the name "Innova" to name this Indian market car, if Honda already had the name?

Provided it's not used in the same country, you can have two cars on-sale in the world with the same model name  - depending, of course, upon legal agreements between the manufacturers. For example, in Canada you have the Toyota Highlander, and here we have the Hyundai Santa Fe Highlander (we get the Toyota as the Kluger). Honda may not even own the Innova name any more - I believe that model was discontinued in 1996, to be replaced by the Ascot.

[93JC]

(we get the Toyota as the Kluger).

Kluger? Get that cough looked at, mate.

[omicron]

Kluger? Get that cough looked at, mate.

It's an awful name, isn't it.

[Soup DeVille]

It's an awful name, isn't it.

Not quite as bad as "Ascot."

[omicron]

Not quite as bad as "Ascot."

I just can't stand the double A - HondA Ascot. Unless I throw in a rogue R to make it a Honda Rascot, it becomes two disjointed words that don't sound right together.

[TheIntrepid]

I just can't stand the double A - HondA Ascot. Unless I throw in a rogue R to make it a Honda Rascot, it becomes two disjointed words that don't sound right together.

Yup. I always find it comical when Clarkson says Hondur Accord.

[Soup DeVille]

I just can't stand the double A - HondA Ascot. Unless I throw in a rogue R to make it a Honda Rascot, it becomes two disjointed words that don't sound right together.

It just sounds like tis begging for a bad joke. "Ater driving 4 hours in my new Honda, My Ascot sore.

[TBR]

My parents wouldn't look at the Passat Wagon because it was German, and my dad's side of the family is German.

[Soup DeVille]

My parents wouldn't look at the Passat Wagon because it was German, and my dad's side of the family is German.

It's been so long since I've heard anything like that, I have to ask (even if it is none of my business), what's your mom's side?

[omicron]

It just sounds like tis begging for a bad joke. "Ater driving 4 hours in my new Honda, My Ascot sore.

I think your Ascot Innova your head.

[TBR]

Not really sure, perhaps Polish though. In which case it would make a little bit more sense, but it would still be rather silly. I think they mainly just wanted something built in the USA.

We bought a Japanese car, which as Americans should be as much of an issue as a German car, but then it was assembled in America.

I don't know, the logic behind stuff like this can be bewildering.

[Soup DeVille]

Not really sure, perhaps Polish though. In which case it would make a little bit more sense, but it would still be rather silly. I think they mainly just wanted something built in the USA.

We bought a Japanese car, which as Americans should be as much of an issue as a German car, but then it was assembled in America.

I don't know, the logic behind stuff like this can be bewildering.

There's a large conservative Jewish population in a town very near me. Many of them drive Saabs or Cadillacs and won't have anything even remotely German in their houses.

Even that though seems to be fading, and Volkswagens have been steadily creeping in among the younger residents.

[Raghavan]

I just have to say, I think it's completely retarded that depreciation is calculated even before a new model comes out - based purely on the name of the car - people are just assholes.
(not your parents, just all people (BTW, I'm not saying your parents aren't people - I'm sure they are good people (I hate people, but I'm not saying I hate you parents (I don't even know your parents))))

[Raghavan]

don't you be talkin bout my momma, fool

edit: I agree with you. Depreciation sucks balls. It's the reason I allowed them to convince me out of a 2007 Anything.

My dad doesn't care about depreciation as he runs all of his cars into the ground and gives them to charity like 15 years later.

[TheIntrepid]

It's been so long since I've heard anything like that, I have to ask (even if it is none of my business), what's your mom's side?

It's none of your business.

[SVT666]

It's been so long since I've heard anything like that, I have to ask (even if it is none of my business), what's your mom's side?

What's so surprising about that?  There are plenty of Americans who refuse to even look at an American car.

[ifcar]

What's so surprising about that?  There are plenty of Americans who refuse to even look at an American car.

Right, but not for political reasons.

[SVT666]

Right, but not for political reasons.

I'm sure there are some.

[the Teuton]

I'm sure there are some.

I know of some Jews who love muscle cars, but won't go near a Chevy that says SS on it.  No kidding.

[FordSVT]

I'm sure there are some.

I can see some Americans buying American cars for political reasons (Buy USA!), but Japanese?

My grandmother is 94 and she would never have bought a Japanese or German car. I think as the WW2 generation -the ones who actually lived through it and remember it well- dies out that philosophy dies out too.

[etypeJohn]

For years I swore I would never buy a Jap car because of the Panay Incident, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, The Phillipines, etc.  Eventually we bought a Mazda, but only because Hiroshima had been cleansed on 9 August 1945.   

[Vinsanity]

For years I swore I would never buy a Jap car because of the Panay Incident, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, The Phillipines, etc.  Eventually we bought a Mazda, but only because Hiroshima had been cleansed on 9 August 1945.  

Which is why it surprises me that my parents ended up with (and still have) their Mistubishi; Buicks may have the depreciation curve of a falling rock, but at least they weren't the kamikaze plane of choice for trying to invade the rest of Asia

[the Teuton]

My mom won't buy Japanese for all the same reasons.  Apparently she had a family friend who looked sickly after surviving the Batan Death March.  It took up til last year before I finally convinced her to look at Subaru because the company was founded in 1955.  We shall see if that goes anywhere.

[Maxxum]

Are they still using Michelins as their factory tires in the Accord?

[JYODER240]

Are they still using Michelins as their factory tires in the Accord?

My 03 had Bridgestones. I'm pretty sure the S2000 runs Bridgestones as well.

[TheIntrepid]

Are they still using Michelins as their factory tires in the Accord?

My '99 Camry came with Michelins.

I hate my current sumer tires. Drifts are uncontrollable.

[JYODER240]

My '99 Camry came with Michelins.

I hate my current sumer tires. Drifts are uncontrollable.

You don't "drift".

[TheIntrepid]

You don't "drift".

That's right. I skid on purpose in slick conditions.