Acura or Honda?
I had a couple of weeks of vacation time and decided to go abroad. My first week was in Hong Kong and now I’m in the Philippines. The weather here is great-the total opposite of the winter temperatures we have back home.
Cars here are the same. You have your Suburbans, Expeditions and Beamers. Then again some that we don’t have: AUVs or Asian Utility Vehicles. To me they seem like the offspring of a marriage between a 80’s minivan and a mini SUV. The one thing I didn’t see here were Acuras.
Acuras in other parts of the world are actually Hondas.
The Acura brand is sold only in Japan and North America. The reason for the rebranding was Hondas answer to their fear of being regarded as a line of “economy” vehicles, even for the Accords and to some extent Civics which are their higher end products. This concern was shared by the other top Japanese car makers-Toyota and Nissan. Hence we have the Lexus (Toyota) and Infiniti (Nissan).
Back home we have the RL, TL, TSX, MDX and RDX models. Here they have the Accord, Civic, Jazz, City, CR-V and Pilot. Acuras are actually based on the Accord and Civic platforms. The Jazz by the way is the “Fit” back home. The “City” is something I don’t think we have. It comes with either a 1.3 or 1.5 iVTEC engine and cranks out 100hp for the 1.3 and 120hp for the 1.5.
May 9th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Hi, nice blog. The Honda City shares the same platform (GD) with the Jazz / Fit. It’s called the Fit Aria in Japan. It’s basically a sedan version while the Fit is the hatchback version. The all-new City is also available in the EU.