Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
In the mid 80's Honda released the larger, luxury brand Acura Legend, bigger, more power and more luxurious. By the late 90's the Honda Accord was all that and more. Soon the newest Accord will be an Audi competitor and the Acura's might be a brand with no place to go.
They still maintain a bigger gap between the CRV and the RDX, can't get a V6 in the former like you can in the Accord. Toyota salespeople told me they saw the RAV4 V6 (RAV6) as stealing sales from the Lexus RX350 and the V6 option got dropped from the Toyota in the last redesign. I liked the RDX and might be driving one if not for a "why not?" test drive of an FXT while my daughter was at softball practice followed by an Acura sales manager being really offensive towards me when we started talking price and trade. Maybe I would have liked it better, who knows...I have read that the CRV/RDX AWD system is nothing to write home about, but I suspect I would have preferred a V6 to a turbo 4.