Honda Accord

[Gnosis]

Honda has done a nice job with the body on this model.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/story/2012-09-10/honda-accord-mid-size-sedans/57720450/1

 

[McLovin]

Uses to much pertol.

 

[Ink]

McLovin, do you drive?

 

[McLovin]

McLovin, do you drive?

Yes, I do actually

I drive this car

not that colour though. Plus it's a manual.

 

[Gnosis]

Uses to much pertol

Is that what you call refined light sweet crude in the Land Down Under, 'cause we Yanks call it "petrol". No, actually we call it "gas" or "fuel". LOLOL

Nice ride, by the way.

 

[McLovin]

"petrol"
Nice ride, by the way.

Yeah, that.

Kinda like it, drives quite well

 

[Ramblin]

Ramblin

 

[Gnosis]

I did not fully appreciate a great car until I drove a Honda. Soichiro Honda was marvelous. He might have been Japanese, and proud of it, but as far as I am concerned he was as American as baseball and apple pie.

Honda was what initially inspired me to be aware of Japanese manufacturing. I soon learned that the Japanese, as a whole, are very gifted, dedicated, and humble. Japan is a magnificent partner in trade, and if it comes from there and has any combination of rubber and steel, or is an automobile, or electronic device; it all is second to none. The Japanese people believe in customer service and quality, not status quo and bottom line, though the means definitely justify the end.

If not for Soichiro Honda, I would have never known these things, nor cared to know. He was my personal gateway to the east.

 

[HeffeD]

I am going to tell you guys a story about the Honda Accord. I know of a Honda dealership in Miami, Florida that in the 80s their monthly allocation was about 200 cars a month. That meant that no matter how many cars that dealership wanted, American Honda would only supply them with the amount of cars that I mentioned. So, even if the dealership could sell 400/500 cars a month, the allocation was 200 and no more. The supply of Hondas in the US was so little in the early 80s that dealers would get not what they needed but an allocation depending on what they sold the previous year or quarter. There was never enough Hondas.

I wonder if this was the same elsewhere in the country?

I owned a Honda Accord in the late 80's. (Well, if you consider "owned" as, inherited parents old car, )

I don't recall them being difficult to come by, and don't recall the dealerships having a suspicious lack of Accord's in their lots.

But like they say, if you remember the 80's, you didn't live through the 80's. -Wait... That was another decade... :blush:-

 

[Ramblin]

Ramblin