[Shop-talk] camry hybrids

Shannah Miller shannahquilts at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 21:39:54 MST 2013


I got rid of my Acura TSX because I
got really tired of the electrical problems.

Having the stereo (radio or CD, didn't matter)
cut out intermittently just added insult to injury.

Acura replaced my navi system 3 times, to
no avail.  It still had problems.

Shannah

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:26 PM, John Miller <jem at milleredp.com> wrote:

> I can remember my older relatives insisting they'd NEVER buy a Honda or
>> Toyota because 'the Japanese built garbage'. I think the Koreans were
>> just a few decades behind them.
>>
>
> In California Toyota took over the Chevrolet-position as the 'default car
> purchase of the car-ignorant' somewhere in the '80s.
>
> As far as I'm concerned Honda kinda elbowed them to second-banana a decade
> later and Toyota's never really caught up, though there's a fair bit to
> dislike about some of Honda's recent products as well.
>
> Honda went through a decade of even worse material quality than Toyota
> though they've mostly recovered from that, and the current Civic is too fat
> and too weird (and I think it's suffered in the marketplace for it.)
>
> But Honda usually manages to put a coat of polish on the driving behavior
> of their products that most other manufacturers can't manage.  Even truly
> hideous, ugly Hondas and Acuras usually drive really well.
>
> John.
>
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