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Eh? Acura doesn't skip a beat by being a Honda company. From a casual observer, you may not like a few things about the cars themselves, but if you're a customer, you gotta love this company.
As it was told to me by a former employee: Honda LOVES their customers and will step on their employees to please them.
It starts when you buy the car: Their pricing is so much simpler than everyone else's. Let me use the TL as the example because I think it's success will prompt them to use this method for every vehicle they come out with from now on. When you buy a TL, you aren't given a price, then asked to fork over tons more cash for extra features that you want, but aren't included in the base price. The TL is the same all around: fully loaded. The only factory options you can ask for are the navigation system and summer tires. This makes buying one SO much less stressful.
Look at cheaper cars like the Accord and Civic. They have like 3 packages to choose from with very little extra kickers that will raise the price that you came in expecting to pay. Simple.
How about other cars? On the Cadillac CTS, you can look up the base price online, but did you know you'll be charged an extra $1000 if you want an automatic? In fact, even though the base price of the CTS is competetive with the TL, if you want to add features to equal those of the TL, you'll end up spending about $8000 more.
On the Nissan Maxima, even on the highest model, a moonroof is $900 more than the base price. No-brainer features like a full-size spare are also much more.
Please don't knock Honda. I have tremendous respect for them for the respect they've given me and my family... we've own many Honda cars and there is a reason why we keep going back.
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