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How do they return to their former glory?
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>>28899164
>go back to making fuel inefficient shitboxes that are uncompetitive and send the company spiraling into bankruptcy rather than innovate!
Kill all retarded millennials who think the world begins and ends with them. now honda will be in their glory days in the eyes of a younger generation.
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>>28899164
Bring back the hot hatch, it doesn't need to be a 9k screamer, emissions regulations won't allow it anymore, just make like a Honda Fit sized car or smaller and a crap load of boost, 350hp at 2600lbs two door hatchback
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>>28899232
I didn't say I wouldn't it just that it doesn't need to be one, as much as I want one, I recognize modern emissions bullshit won't allow it, maximizing horsepower through displacement per minute was the game before emissions bullshit
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>>28899266
>t. retard
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>>28899356
refer back to>>28899276
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>>28899399
As per my last post:
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>>28899401
>retard ignores reality
yawn
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>>28899404
>faggot can't accept the truth
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>>28899276
>10 year old car
Tik tok unc soon you'll be 30
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>>28899164
Start making kei trucks again.
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>>28899509
How about a FWD s2000?
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>>28900410
absolutely not. any 2000s car and any car designed in the 2000s and sold in the 2010s easily looks dated. only the NSX can stand against a brand new C8, 992, Ferrari SP90, etc, and still look like it came out alongside them.
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>>28900620
Dude, we get it. The NuSX makes your PP feel funny. It's still a twisted soulless mockery of true perfection tho.
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>>28900623
we get it. you're another retarded millennial who doesn't even know what NSX means.
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>>28900857
>i cant think of anything else
no shit lol, youre a fucking wrenchlet. i bet you know all about LEDs and glue on lips kek. you are not the one to consult on hondas contributions to racing and engine technology. what do you want to talk about now, how about that uniiversal batman wing that fits all your favorite auto only nog cars huh you littel faggoty ricer?
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>>28900895
They're losing money because greentards were forcing ev's down everyone throat in 2030 and now they've backed off because they found that there was no fucking way in hell anyone's electrical infrastructure would be able to take it.
So they had to cut way back on EV production which cost them bigly.
EV bullshit lost every manufacturer across the board.
Ignore greetntards is the message here.
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>>28902069
>We want cheap civic back
We have cheap Civics, Anon, adjusted for inflation, a shitbox Civic EX from 1995 cost 34,000 in today's money, nowadays you can trick out a touring hybrid civic for a little less than 33 grand and it is so much car than that single cam piece of shit could ever be.
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>>28902998
Why is it Honda's fault we live in a society? there's costs of materials and shit, Anon... The fuck do you expect them to do? sell cars at a loss? the profit margins are tight as it is, the way these cars are priced to sell when you're competing with not only toyota who makes good fuel efficient cars, but a Hyundai that is making good fuel efficient cars as well. We're at a point where pretty much every car is "nice" so to even get a Civic LX base car with a 2.0L engine for a little under $25,000 is really incredible.
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>>28903010
I'm just saying that accounting for inflation does not mean that it's cheaper. When someone says they want cheap Civics back, they mean affordable Civics. That tricked out touring hybrid Civic that you're using as an example doesn't qualify.
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GIVE ME BACK THE TABLE
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All the Japanese car companies should form a cartel for parts sharing. Unified engine development, unified transmission development, common wiring harnesses, etc...
Toyota can make the boring cars, Mazda can make the slightly upmarket cars, Honda the kind of sporty cars, and Nissan can make the poverty tier cars.
This is literally the only way to compete with China. Yes, the future is bleak, deal with it.
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>>28903329
more importantly, why did it outsell the LFA? that was supposed to be Toyota's big halo project and the only people buying those were dealerships.
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>>28903333
The LFA is on a completely different level. The NSX is a more mass produced vehicle than the LFA by a long shot and that was by design, during the decade long planning phase of the LFA it was determined it was going to be a car produced at a loss with only 500 units. Compare that to the near 3k units produced of the NSX. Sure the NSX is a halo car but the LFA is a unicorn, originally a concept car but eventually conceptualized as an artistic showcase of Japanese engineering talent more so than a performance monster like the GT-R. The NSX is more a platform for technological implementation instead of engineering prowess (LFA) or performance metrics (GT-R)
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>>28903473
>artistic showcase of Japanese engineering talent
So true, as much as I love the GT-R for how much it costs, the thing sounds like a vacuum cleaner and has typical Nissan switchgear (not a bad thing), but the LFA is a real luxury item, they actually cared to make it sound beautiful when you cranked it up, where the GT-R doesn't.
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>>28903478
>oops went the wrong way sorry guys
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>>28903473
They couldn't even sell the 500 they coped with building because they knew it wasn't going to be popular, and it was even less popular than they anticipated. you conveniently ignored the part that most of them were bought by dealerships because the car was a flop and you're just using flowery nothing-burger language to explain away what is basically just your arbitrary personal bias. You act as if the engineers and designers of the NSX weren't just as autistic and talented given what they did and how much the industry copied them.
You tried to use sells as a reason to dismiss "EVs and Hybrids" when the LFA couldn't even sell the 500 units it had despite not being either of those things.
>>28903492
Why would they ever need to do that when it takes longer to build an NSX than an R8 to begin with because there's much more quality control involved with the NSX than an R8.
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>>28903542
>entire point and comprehension goes over his head
>"old" honda had balls by cucking their Halo car out of the V12 everyone thought it should've had and giving it a trannyverse mounted V6 that made the whole car a paper tiger on and off the track
This is the IQ level of people who seethe at the new nsx.
yikes.
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dont mind me just being a cool car over here
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Don't mind me, just being the same thing but newer.
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Love my 2016 Honda Fit. Had a Nissan Pathfinder before it, and the difference is night and day. The Fit has has as much or more cargo space, gets more than 2x the mpg of the Pathfinder, and almost no issues with needing work, breaking down, or passing inspection. I'll probably own it another ten years.
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>>28899164
Honda has a massive image problem, with the exception of the Civic Type R, all their image cars were massive dick softening disappointments since the S2000 was discontinued, so they need a new image car, quickest way would be making a new CRX by taking the civic and making it into a shorter coupe-like 2 door hatchback, make the base versions use the same hybrid bullshit the Prelude and the Hybrid Civic already use, top spec is just the Type R drivetrain, bam, done, it's clear Honda can't make anything more advanced than that, if they could they'd have done for the Prelude, a car so embarrassing that even the world's biggest shills feel safe enough to shit on it
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>>28899164
>build a reliable engine that's economical enough for normies while also being extremely satisfying to rev
>drop said engine into a series of affordable small cars for young people
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>profit
There, I saved Honda.
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>>28903755
Maybe if you're the kind of person that gets panic attacks if someone looks at you the wrong way, therefore making this place the only way you can communicate with other people, or a Honda employee, otherwise you'd know people have been talking about it
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>>28906039
Even non turbo 4 banger can have big balls torque if you undersquare it, Honda stroked out their K20 to 2354cc way back then and everyone loved the linear powerband of the K24, midsize cars back then moved their fatasses around quite nicely for a non turbo non V6 engine.
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>>28903095
Cars can't be as affordable as they used to be because of regulations mandating a certain level of crash protection and safety technology so they cram them full of cheap tech and shiny plastic to give the impression you're getting a more premium product
I don't know if there are actual stats out there, but I'd bet there's more than double the amount of raw material in the A-pillar of a modern civic compared to the toothpicks holding the roof onto the older ones. That's where your affordability went
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>>28906052
>That's where your affordability went
It's really incredible the price a normal econobox is at when you consider the costs of making the motherfucker, to get a base model Civic for $24,000ish dollars with all that nice audio, safety, midsize car, traction and stability programming, cruise control, infotainment and still extremely reliable is amazing, I have a base Honda Accord that would've cost $29,000 back when freek a leek was on the radio and you were happy to have that featureless midsize car with a CD player, power windows and cold air for all that money.
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>>28909209
>It's underpowered
They've move down the road like a freight train Anon, a very large and faggy Honda Accord does not need a lot of RPM do it's thing, you can get it going with a bunch of 0 rpm torque and then the 2.0L engine just kinda fades in seamlessly, it's the nicest car ever if you're not trying to feel sport of any kind.
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>>28903755
It's not just on /o/, for the first time in 70 years Honda closed a fiscal year with a loss
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/honda-expects-fy202526-loss -up-43-bln-review-ev-strategy-2026- 03-12/
They lost their touch, they can't make exciting cars that regular people can buy anymore
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>>28899164
Rear wheel drive civic with dimensions of ek9 and ice model of :E
Call it ICE Cube
>>28899213
I agree that basedlenials should be genocided but nsx was fucking cool
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Redpill me on the 2024 Honda Accord Touring hybrid.
Is it worth it?
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>>28899164
You can't
Cars are too expensive for the average person to buy new and Nissan proved that shoveling cars into the hands of the poor with massive monthly payments really brings down your brand image and doesn't actually make you a ton of money
Everything they could do to make money would be anti consumer
They have to make their cars shitty enough that people get rid of them but nice enough that their drivers will come back and buy another
Pandering to enthusiasts doesn't make you money either
And they have to do all this while competing with Chinese cars
Whatever happens. It's not going to be good for drivers
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>>28911061
You're kinda right Anon, the masses are so broke these days, that all the brands are basically becoming Nigsan with the way people are drowning in payments, you used to look at a Honda or Toyota owner and say "that person has to have decent credit and financially stable enough to get a car like that, but it's not uncommon to see a brand new Tundra driven by an owner who's literally struggling and wants to get out from underneath his truck payments, and if people can't afford their payments, you know they can't do any maintenance on the car or look after it in some capacity, so expect to see a lot of big altima energy with all the brands.
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They can't.
They rose to fame in the '80s and '90s due to DOHC, VTEC, cheapness, wishbones, and short gears. They were limited by displacement so got creative. At the time V8 Mustangs were running like 15s, there wasn't much competition outside of Japan, so they really looked like a winner and got upwards of 40s mpgs to boot.
Now the displacement limit is a real limit because even V8s have DOHC with variable valve timing cam phaser shit. Now Hondas are relatively expensive, but they're absolute shit in comparison to everyone else. Real VTEC hasn't existed in at least a decade, and they're all heavy aids shit now so enthusiasts don't care.
Getting enthusiasts excited in 2026 won't help them anyway. They just have to focus on making solid, reliable, cheap cars with sedate appearances and they should be fine.
At least the new Accord looks nice.
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>>28911066
And it sucks really bad. I'm american, so my view is burger-centric but people just don't have the same amount of disposable income as they used to world wide
Things are getting more expensive and your dollar, pound, euro and yen doesn't stretch like it used to. This means in the US even people with new car money are buying cheaper (market shifts to cheaply made cars and makes need to accommodate)
Poor Americans just buy used shit boxes
In Europe and Japan, cars are luxury items so many zoomers just aren't buying cars.
All this while the price of the average automobile CONTINUES TO RISE
Not to mention gas and maintenance
Car enthusiasts are not a large part of the market anywhere and pandering to them does not pay the bills. Middle class people will buy the new shit box and be happy when they roll their debt into a new shit box in 5 years
Poor Americans will buy used 90s and 00s cars and drive them without oil until they lose a piston
Poor euros and Japs will buy a yearly transit pass instead of a car
It's lose lose lose
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>>28911074
Wishbones and vtec are based, but holy shit, fuck short gears, those old GS-R/ITR Integras are ass at cruising, you're doing will over 4000 rpm to go 75 mph, thankfully modern 6 speed transmissions with close ratios and a long overdrive gear as well as the 10AT have fixed that problem.
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>>28911061
>Pandering to enthusiasts doesn't make you money either
That's bullshit made up by executives so manufacturers could push crossovers since they're cheaper to manufacture and have bigger profit margins, there's a shitload of money in the enthusiast market, Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep survived for years based only on the enthusiast market, Ford kept the Mustang around because it sells, same thing for the F-150 Raptor, they even brought back the Bronco because they knew there's a market for it, same thing for Toyota, they invested on both TRD and GR to pander to enthusiasts because there's money to be made in there
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>>28911515
>push crossovers since they're cheaper to manufacture and have bigger profit margins
This, car companies know how to make cars, and it's not like the masses woke up one day and said "I want a lifted heavy gay version of a car", it's because these companies are being strangled by EPA regulations, that making a an LTX category vehicle is the only way to make anything, and even for the consumer right now there's really no value like a crossover right now for daily use, even though it gets worse fuel mileage because it is so big.
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Except Honda "enthusiast" are all low IQ spics who won't buy anything unless it's some outdated piece of shit from the 90s. Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep updated their cars, and honda retards don't like when honda tries to stay competitive. GM made the Corvette a Hybrid and everyone loved it. Honda made the NSX a hybrid and honda spics hated it. the C8 hybrid used the NSX hybrid as a benchmark.
Honda "enthusiast" don't want honda to make anything other than exactly what appeared in initial D. the GR products don't sell, either. the Nupra GR sold like shit and didn't make toyota any money. neither did the GR Yaris/Corolla.
American car companies can actually make money off enthusiast because they can recognized when it's time for change. when the Corvette and Mustang changed greatly from what they used to be, their fans still supported it. Only honda spics can't accept any change and demand exactly the same shit from the 90s which wouldn't be competitive today.
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>>28911937
>Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep updated their cars
Shit nigga are u retarded? Dodges and Chryslers are still based on '90s Merc platforms and have been in production for 20 years and Jeeps are still trading off their WWII rep.
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>>28911519
>it's not like the masses woke up one day and said "I want a lifted heavy gay version of a car"
Except it was literally like that. BMW made the X5 and Toyota made the Rav4/RX300 and everyone decided they wanted to buy those instead even though the sedan equivalents still exist. Hell still exist to this day. At the end of the day it was still the free market that chose to buy an Escape instead of a Focus and a CRV instead of a Civic.
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>>28911987
Juan is the one who hates progress.
>>28912034
>Dodges and Chryslers are still based on '90s Merc platforms
Nope, they never were. and they got a mid cycle refresh in the 2010s basically ditching what few merc parts they even used.
>>28912088
If you repeat the LX platform = merc lie you're retarded.
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>>28912389
I wouldn't be talking about punctuation when you don't know how to get dubs.
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>>28914373
wrong on both accounts. it shared some merc engine and transmission options, but like the LX cars, is entirely it's own platform, and got a mid completely new update in early 2010s meaning it now shares absolutely nothing with 2000s daimler.
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>>28914481
You can't make money selling outdated slop to people. this is how GM went bankrupt. Honda would go bankrupt trying to do the same.