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View attachment 62814 The German car stories make me wonder why the Japanese cars tend to have slightly lower prestige in the market place. Lexus is up there reputation wise but Acura, not so much. Yet our experience with Acura has been stellar. I will say I am not a great fan of the new automatic transmissions they are currently using, but blame that switchover on EPA fuel economy regs. Like others, would not want to own an out of warranty Audi. Would not think twice about a well cared for old Honda product. Once you establish a relationship with a good dealer, Japanese cars become great values, even if you trade them often as opposed to driving them into the ground.
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Acura has not done as good a job of going full luxury like Lexus did.
I had a 124 spider for 2 weeks in high school the PO was kind enough to give me my money back... never again... that was after my dad talked me out of a 240Z....I had a Fiat X1/9 in high school.
Spent considerably more time under it than in it, but I still miss that car.
Acura has not done as good a job of going full luxury like Lexus did. They purposely stay one step down to avoid direct competition with the German brands I believe. I traded my 2009 MDX on the 2018 MDX at the Acura dealer and they gave me CAD$11,000 for it with over 150K miles (only paid CAD$42K for it in 2009). The dealer told me that they export them overseas and can get top dollar for them there.
I like the 9 speed auto in the MDX, but it there are a few harder shifts than some cars. In normal driving its great. The sport mode is a bit to high revving and sharp shifting IMO. But the regular one is very smooth. The one in the 2009 MDX was great. The worst transmission I have had was a BMW X5. If you slowed to say 5 to 10 mph going around a corner and then floored it coming out of the corner, the transmission/engine "bogged" and there was a long delay before it would start to accelerate. Same in a straight line. I complained about it every time I brought it in for service so it would be "on record" if something failed later. They could never fix it.
My son bought his 2006 BMW 325Xi in 2015 with about 90,000 miles on it for just over $10,000. The car was spotless. He traded it in 2 years later on a 2017 Subaru WRX and they gave him $4500 on trade. It had about 130,000 on it by then and he did hit a deer in that time. The insurance paid for the repairs but it still showed up on the carfax with a $3500 accident claim.
On to the next part, he bought the WRX brand new. He looked at used ones but they were almost as much as a brand new one. My daughter also bought a brand new 2016 Wrangler but had looked at used ones. They were only a couple thousand less than a brand new one.
Yikes ...I used to have a 2007 CLS550. It was a great car ...never an issue and man did it GO! I do miss that car, but glad I got rid of it before anything like this happened.
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View attachment 62872 [QUOTE="Creekwood, post: 1028360, member:]. I traded my 2009 MDX on the 2018 MDX at the Acura dealer and they gave me CAD$11,000 for it with over 150K miles (only paid CAD$42K for it in 2009). The dealer told me that they export them overseas and can get top dollar for them there