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carpal: Good choice with the EX-L 5-speed coupe, but then again I am biased. What color are you getting?
nowakj: I've heard that some dealers already have some here in Atlanta.
240HP would be nice but it's not necessary nor practical in our case. We drive too fast with 160HP, give us 240HP and a 6-speed and you might as well take our license as you hand us the keys.
Are others seeing a dearth of 6 speed 6 cy coupes?
I heard there were going to be very few of them.
Because it's a USA market-only car, there will be no "trickle" quantities of the CL if this is true.
Consequently, Accord 6M production should increase after June 03, althought I'm not sure if the Accord Coupe 6M is cross-shopped with the Acura CL 6m to make this an airtight prediction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=V- iewItem&item=2404793752&indexURL=5&photoDisplayType=2
By the way, did you notice the ebay 6MT didn't sell -- not even a bid at the opening $28k?
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Obi
Any word whether 04 will see more V6, 6 speed beasts?
Finding an aftermarket twin muffler setup shouldn't be all too difficult. You'd probably get a few HP out of the deal, not to mention a nicer exhaust note.
Also my local dealer has their in and is sold at sticker, they are getting 2 more which 1 of the 2 of those is sold at sticker.
IT CAN BE DONE!!!!!
$400 for moonroof visor I can buy for $70
$1k for the spoiler I can buy for $300
$1k for the front lip I can get for $150
$1k for the fog light kit thats $250.
holy smokes, can you imagine the labor costs on these parts? =oP
Awww, too bad it didn't sell.
i very recently leased an '03 v6 ex coupe. so far the car has been a delight except for a slight lack of headroom because of the sunroof.
anyway, i do have a couple questions. do any of you guys that own this car think the throttle is a tad touchy? also, i've noticed that when you are accelerating at a decent clip the 5-speed autobox upshifts nice and smooth, but when you only have light throttle application it's upshifts feel kinda "lurchy" for lack of a better word. the car i'm leasing does this, and a different one i test drove also did this. any of you notice similar??
If you like the '03 Accord, that's fine. I just can't seem to warm up to this car at all. In my opinion, it looks less expensive than its predessesor and too much like an '89 Ford Probe with Focus headlights.
Not everyone has to buy an Accord or they would sell a million a year instead of 400K.
And I think the new TSX/TL look are the bomb. So there ya go.
apparently you haven't seen many home market japanese cars...many of them are far uglier than anything japan has built for the US market!
The beef I have with newer Honda's and Toyota's is in the 80's and 90's they looked 100% Japanese now I notice their putting some American Car Designs in their style from Ford and GM. Ford and GM cars styling I never cared for except for a few exceptions here and there. Its just seems like a slap in the face to your loyal audience after 20 years to throw your audience off in the styling department like Honda and Toyota have been doing of late. Mazda and Nissan did that in 1995 and they suffered bankruptcy because of that.
Also, even if Mazda's problem is that they didn't have that many manuals on the lot in the beginning and they didn't sell, that many does that mean few people want the automatics. I mean when you have every variety of automatic sitting on the lot and everyone is wanting a stick then you are in big trouble later. Most of the U.S. market wants a automatic.
But then why are we discussing the Mazda6 in the Accord coupe room. The Mazda ain't even got 2 doors.
About the 6 and manual transmissions the BMW 3 Series and Honda Civic sell alot of cars with manual transmissions from what I understand. I would want an Automatic if I bought a car but as you saw in the 6 room when the 6 was released everybody was complaining about lack of 5 sp. manuals on the lot. Its not what makes me happy(believe me) its what I saw on the 6 board when the 6 was realased: where are the manual transmissions at?
If you look at the Mazda6 board you'd think that was the problem until the actual dealers say that that's not the problem. They will tell you the demographics of Edmunds has nothing to do with what they see in the real world.
Again even if several people wanted the stick, MORE people want the automatic and they had plenty of those. Yet the Mazda still is having a hard time. I seriously doubt the stick would put 10,000 more butts in the seats.
I've driven the 6 and Accord coupe. There's no comparing them as far as from-the-factory handling prowess. The 6 feels like an athletic monster when held up to the Accord.
I love the Accord's ample power and nice luxury appointments but it'll take at least wider tires/bigger rims and a thicker swaybar to make the Accord a comfortably handling daily driver - figure 2-3k. for the 6 I think a good swaybar could be enough to bring it at least to a level where the car's neutral in corners - figure 200-300 dollars.
Another thing...Like the Acord, the Altima is pretty big. That makes it and awesome family hauler. That's another area where IMHO the Mazda falls short. The basic job of all these cars is to cart the family to and fro. The Accord and Altima are great at this primary job first while being able to give sports car like thrill when you stomp the go pedal. The Mazda on the other hand concentrated so hard on the sporty they seem to have considered being a family sedan a second thought.
On the Altima the interior is too cheap for a Nissan. The 6 is a more complete car than the Altima. Mazda's has always had less room than Honda and Toyota. I think the 6 is good for smalll family's.
So what if the 6 looks like a Millenia : nothing wrong with that since the Accord front end looks like a Civic.
I'm not trying to dog Honda or anything but it hurts me for them to get so bland like that. When I was younger I always thought Honda do no wrong. Now there just messing up a good thing they had going in the 90's. They could have done alot better job on styling the Accord.
You are right about Toyota being rejected by the younger set. But they are still a serious company to recon with in the world auto market.
As far as styling on the Accord. That's so subjective. And since even the Element has gotten a warm welcome from the buying public, I don't think they missed their mark there either. I find the Accord quite attractive. As most CamCord design, it'll probably wear much longer than most designs.