LexFather

Why would Honda do this to Acura (again). Acura has as tough enough time differentiating themselves and it just occured to me as I was reading about the vehicle the new Honda vehicle's name is the FCX "Clarity".
Why would they put a 3 letter name on a Honda? Why not just call it the Honda Clarity. Why put the 3 letter name FCX with it????
Acura CSX (Canada) Civic
Acura TSX Euro Accord
Acura TL
Acura RL Honda Legend
Acura MDX
Acura RDX
Honda FCX

Acura/Honda NSX is gone but was the first with this type of name. Then you have Honda S2000.
These are the simple yet big mistakes that plague the brand.

Why on EARTH would they name their new Honda FCX?????? That should be reserved for Acura no???


Now you have Acura TSX and the Honda FCX. Why would they do that???

Faymester

never mind that ... who wants to drive a car called a "Clarity"? ... 'yes, i drive an act of being clear' *doh*

Allen K

iTrader: (4)

Isn't the FCX their new fuel cell vehicle?

LexFather

Way back in the day, the Honda CRX

I should cancel my EVO subscription for forgetting that :laugh: :laugh:

So we have
Honda CRX
Honda CR-V
Honda FR-V (Europe)
Honda HR-V (Europe)
Honda FCX
Acura CSX (Canada)
Acura TSX
Acura NSX (discontinued)
Acura RDX
Acura MDX
Acura SLX (discontinued)
Acura TL
Acura RL
Acura CL (discontinued)

mmarshall

Yes....and there have actually been two different versions of the FCX, still undergoing testing with selected drivers and some local governments.

Nextourer

Yeah but NSX actually stood for something - New Sports eXperimental.

The rest of the Acura lineup don't seem to stand for anything.

Don't forget the Acura EL that was replaced by the CSX and of course the RSX/Integra.


Running out of names I suppose or just too lazy.

Btw, MDX stands for Multi-Dimensional Crossover and was based of a rhino (I kid you not). Hard on the outside, soft on the inside.

Don't believe me? Google the 2001 MDX for yourself and see if you can find info on the "design theme"

bruce van

FCX.....damn!

All along I thought it was just Honda trying to get away with
saying *F#KS.

IS250SoCal

I can see it now.......

"Coming in 2009 the Honda HI-V"

Coconut

LOL, Honda must love SeX and DiX.

Solo_D33A

Exact same goes to Toyota and Nissan for putting some letters for their US counterparts of their Japanese cars....

well, when you think about it, it goes about the same as others...
ie:
Merc with it's C, E, S, ML, GL, G, etc.... If I guess, it's like C=cheap, E=elegance, S=supreme or something like that, but GL? etc???
BMW, it's simple, larger number, larger car, but 8 series as a coupe, I know it's more in it, but really, that's lazy by all means to me.

mmarshall

Not quite, bruce.

FC simply stands for "Fuel Cell". "X" in this case, does not necessarily mean experimental, like with aircraft......it is just a more or less standard Honda designation for many of its vehicles.

Lexmex

I like numbers on vehicles, never really could get used to names, though somethings like Mustang and Corvette, I like, even Fiero.

Nextourer

Classic.. it's called classic hahahahaha.

Brilliant!

Funny thing is that they have two cars with the FCX name. This one and the other based on the EV Plus.

Lil4X

Alphanumerics have been carried to the extreme. For the numerically-challenged like me, we can't tell the brands apart. I'm sure it works well in a global market where a sprinkling of numbers and letters defines a model, but it really doesn't SAY anything about the vehicle. (OK, Fairlady, while an outstanding watershed car, didn't translate into anything but silliness - it had to have a NUMBER transplant - 240Z - in order to sell in the testosterone-soaked US market)

In the sixties and seventies we ran the gamut of farm animals - Mustang, Colt, Maverick, Pinto (thankfully no Chicken, Goose, Pig, or Cow), before branching out into large iconic game animals - Impala, Eagle, Cougar, Barracuda, etc. These connoted freedom, power, and strength (no Hippopotamus or Giraffe).

Place names from Monte Carlo, Monaco, Del Ray, Coronado, Biscayne, Daytona, and Aspen produced a classy, sportive note - if we kept this up we would have the Dodge El Segundo and the Ford Passaic by now - probably not the "image" name they were aiming for originally, but they were running out of glamorous places to name cars for.

That was the problem with names that spoke of the romance of the automobile - with "new" models having to be introduced every year, we ran out of names. We couldn't seem to stick with a name for many years - but there were exceptions - Impala lives on - still outrunning lions on the African savanna, Corvette never produced a Frigate (probably for the obvious reason) and the Mustang, although in continuous production, has returned to its roots.

IS 350, RX 400h, Mk VIII, 335i, S550, even the late lamented Five Hundred fail to inspire me. Give me a name - even a monumentally silly manufactured one like Tiguan . . . it's something I can visualize - even though it may make me giggle. What's in a name? Steven Vincent Benet said it best in American Names.

cpone

FCX = Freaking Crazy eXtreme

or

FCX = Fluffy Car eXtacy