On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:57:13 GMT, John Horner <jthorner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>JXStern wrote:
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>> I still wish Honda/Acura would put out some V8 vehicles, but the RL
>> body is probably just a little tight for it, and the cost of building
>> on a new body is too high.
>
>I doubt we will ever see V-8 powered Hondas. Honda's view seems to be
>that the V-6 is all the motor any street car ever will need.
Well I know, and that's probably true, now that they're finally
getting into turbos, too, if only with the 4 so far here in the US,
.... but I can still wish!
> Remember
>that Honda is led first and foremost by engineers, everyone else is
>sup****ting cast.
Yeah, I grok marketing, at least a little. I admit, from an
engineering point of view, there's little need.
> The engineers see a future where more fuel efficiency
>is needed and don't see any reason to make bigger more fuel thirst
>engines. They really don't care that this means ignoring certain market
>segments.
Yah.
>Toyota and Honda obviously have different operating
>principles. Toyota is focused on the mission to provide a vehicle for
>every purse and purpose, as Alfred Sloan of GM's great years famously
>said. Honda is a rifle shot competitor which takes as it's prime
>directive "being a company society wants to have exist".
Yes, well, I sup****t and admire Honda for their vision, but even so,
as a skeptic or cynic or something, and this is a marketing and
finance perspective, they simply target the highest-return segments.
But note there have been and are exceptions, the NSX being the
biggest, but I wonder if the S2000 turns a profit, either. Doubt it.
A V8 would come in under the same heading, only it would probably cost
much more.
If Honda ever decides to open a product branch of $100k++ automobiles,
that would justify the V8. No straight 5's or V10's, please, it just
ain't natural! And not having a straight six, I can't see them jumping
to a V12. Just as well. Unless they want to get into $200k++.
Y'know, something for Paris Hilton to drive to the store to pick up
some cookies, and run out of gas in on the way home.
J.
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