Sunday, April 19, 2009
taken from Honda Club forum by a forummer ... wht he sae is pretty true .. the days of Honda Twin cam engine VTEC roaring is probably over ... sad man .. hope it will not follow Toyota to be a "target at moderate buyers market" ..it is against the wish of Soichiro Honda which himself said, that "there is no Honda without racing."
extract from SHC by a forummer call "Spunkett"I've said it 2 years ago and it is prophetic now. Honda sux.
First they can the Integra Type R, then they tease us with concepts of the 'New NSX', the Acura ASC, only for them to abandon it in favour of a big front engine rear wheel drive cruiser. It's supposed to be an NSX dammit, the machine which took on Ferraris in its day!!! Then, they scrap that altogether. They start building lunchboxes.... Airwave, Stream, Edix, Crossroad..... fine looking cars yes. But where are the accompanying hot little screamers which used to fill up their product list? Then the Honda Ridgeline?!?! What on earth are they doing building pickups?!?! Ain't they supposed to be environmentally friendly? B16A, B18C, K20A, all given up in favour of environmentally friendly engines. Can you even find a Honda that will rev its engine in anger nowadays?!?! Oh wait, let's race in the pinnacle of fuel guzzling tree burning ozone depleting ice berg melting motorsports in a car painted blue and green to remind ourselves how much we love the earth! Dude.... we're in it to race!!! Not to finish last while wearing our hippy tree hugging colors! Takeo Fukui, I hate you. I was glad you left. But your successor was no better when he sold the F1 team to Brawn who won 1-2 barely 10 days later.... with a car which Honda fully paid for to develop!!!! Dude.... Brawn is as close to a modern day Colin Chapman as you can get! You employed him and you let him go after he creates his first car?!?! We were so close to finally getting onto the top step of the podium!!! I was happy when Brawn won. Honda gave birth to it, but now it wears someone else's name. Same mother, different father. But my heart wept a little as I sat there watching the race at the bar in my Mugen shirt. What could have been..... I even had the bartender design a freakin Honda drink. Championship white on the outside and a heart of red in a shotglass in the centre... flaming....
A little glimmer of hope though. They are still making the FD2R. A FWD which corners like a AWD, a machine that strikes fear in Evos round a corner. But even that is a lone soldier fighting a losing war. Back in the day, the Honda showroom was like going into a candy store. CRX, Civic VTi, DC2, Prelude, S2000, NSX...would you like that in Type R sir? I think I came a little just reading those names..... But now, even the S2000 is in its swansong year. And they have the balls to slap on a bodykit and a sticker then call it the 'Ultimate Edition'. No wonder I saw a Honda Freed this morning with a Red badge and a Type R emblem. That's all Honda is committing to exciting cars nowadays... a freakin sticker.
You know what the future of Honda will be? I can see it now. Honda will be building electric toasters and microwave ovens. Not just any regular oven. It will be mounted onto that dratted ASIMO thing so that the oven will walk to you when the food is ready and that perfectly articulated arm which shakes hands so competently will open its toaster belly and hand the food over to you. Perfect. Honda, the power of bread toasted to perfection dreams.
Let it be official now. Honda, you cheat my feeling for the past 17 years. Promised to let me rev and kui to the heavens but left me standing alone at the bar. Qi Pian Wo Gan Qing. Therefore I'll forsake you. I'll keep my little Honda screamer for as long as I can afford to. But after that, I'll buy a f-ing Toyota. At least they are honest about producing damp squibs.
Fade Away
4/19/2009 06:56:00 PM
