Question on 21 year old buying a car

[Runner]

I honestly don't understand why Honda discontinued their V6 accord coupes. Other manufactures still make some "get up and go" V6 coupes, but not anymore.

The same reason their new Prelude will be hybrid with an automatic: They don't care about drivers anymore, they just want to make appliances.

 

[WinterDeere]

The same reason their new Prelude will be hybrid with an automatic: They don't care about drivers anymore, they just want to make appliances.

They just want to make what they can make most profitably, due to a combination of costs, sales, and governmental safety or efficiency impositions. If they've dropped ICE's with manual transmission, it likely has nothing to do with caring about drivers, but rather some combination of insufficient sales with comparatively expensive governmental impositions.

 

[Sigarms]

The same reason their new Prelude will be hybrid with an automatic: They don't care about drivers anymore, they just want to make appliances.

My son pointed out the TypeR civic.

That is a NICE care, manual speed, but they only make it in a 4 door which blows me away (along with the price point LOL)

 

[Runner]

If they've dropped ICE's with manual transmission, it likely has nothing to do with caring about drivers, but rather some combination of insufficient sales with comparatively expensive governmental impositions.

That'll be their excuse, sure.

 

[WinterDeere]

That'll be their excuse, sure.

Public companies are machines, they don't have feelings or ethics.

 

[Oaktree]

This is the funny thing...

My dads V6 Honda Accord (which gets up to 40 MPH driving 55 on long highway trips) can go just as fast as a V8 '72 Cuda.

We complain about technology (and sometimes rightfully so) but at the end of the day, it's not as bad as we think it is.

I always shake my head when I visit classic car forums and see the number of posts from guys who go on and on about how much "better" cars were in the good old days. Even todays cheapest, entry level grandma special econobox will run rings around 'most anything from 50 years ago...certainly fuel economy, handling and reliability. For sure, that 'Cuda is waay cooler than an Accord will ever be though...

 

[Oaktree]

His first car he really looked at buying new was a Mazda Miata after my mom passed (he saw one in the mall we were walking in together and he liked it). I took another drive up to Pa to visit him, we went to Allentown to test drive one. Top down, in the summer, and we come to a stop light, and I look at my dad hoping he might like the car, and ask him what he thinks of it.

Word for word his response was "my f***ing balls are roasting!"

I knew right there he wasn't going to buy one LOL

Sister in law had one for a couple years, bought it as sort of a midlife crisis gift to herself when she turned 60. She said it was a fun car at first, but wasn't very practical, was bad in snow, didn't like to drive it at night because the headlights were so bad, and my BIL (who was a pretty big guy) could not fit in it comfortably. Got rid of it after a couple years.
It seemed very out of character for her.

 

[Eagle1]

I always shake my head when I visit classic car forums and see the number of posts from guys who go on and on about how much "better" cars were in the good old days. Even todays cheapest, entry level grandma special econobox will run rings around 'most anything from 50 years ago...certainly fuel economy, handling and reliability. For sure, that 'Cuda is waay cooler than an Accord will ever be though...

All true and today's tractors are light years ahead of yesteryear but a 50+ year old tractor will still bring a smile to your face, well until you try to do something. Still has a cool factor.

 

[ultrarunner]

I always shake my head when I visit classic car forums and see the number of posts from guys who go on and on about how much "better" cars were in the good old days. Even todays cheapest, entry level grandma special econobox will run rings around 'most anything from 50 years ago...certainly fuel economy, handling and reliability. For sure, that 'Cuda is waay cooler than an Accord will ever be though...

It could be they are comfortable around old iron?

Not everyone wants a computer on wheels that depends on sophisticated dealer only equipment to troubleshoot codes if something simple like a battery going dead requires programming.

 

[ultrarunner]

Sister in law had one for a couple years, bought it as sort of a midlife crisis gift to herself when she turned 60. She said it was a fun car at first, but wasn't very practical, was bad in snow, didn't like to drive it at night because the headlights were so bad, and my BIL (who was a pretty big guy) could not fit in it comfortably. Got rid of it after a couple years.
It seemed very out of character for her.

My retired fighter pilot friend loves his 911 but daily is a Miata… no snow to worry about here.