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Old 01-09-06, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by GS69
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...lines-business

State to Get Acura Site for Design
From Bloomberg News

Twenty years after introducing Acura premium vehicles to the U.S., Honda Motor Co. has chosen California as the site of the brand's first design center.


The new design center will open next year in Torrance, home to Honda's U.S. headquarters, Fukui said. More than a dozen automotive design studios run by the world's biggest automakers are based in California.



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Let's hope it works better for Honda than it did for Nissan. Nissan recently announced they are leaving CA for TN, primarily because of high costs in CA but also to be nearer its existing plants in TN and MS.
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Old 01-09-06, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by enigma354
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The NAVI systems are really close, but Lexus' takes the cake for refinement and beauty. I agree the Acura has some more functions, like NavTraffic, but the computer synthesized voice is less natural, and the screen design is not as good as Lexus.'

That said, Acura dumbs down its image seriously with the new Canada only CSX.
I dont think anythign could hurt its image more than the 1.6 EL. Very few people know of this canada-exclusive car, but it was literally just a civic with acura emblems on it.
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Old 01-09-06, 09:13 PM
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nice, what else can't we see in cali?
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