regfootball

i don't necessarily believe we all have to buy American at all costs....what i do think is people need to evaluate each purchase a little more completely and at least consider the American makes. test drive everything and weigh all the pros and cons of each model and try to give some weight to the notion of supporting your country more. Not everyone can or should buy a domestic car, but in stead of going to the toyota dealer with consumer reports in hand and not testing anything else, i think there needs to be a much better balance there. And the other part to this is GM and Ford etc need to continuously get more competitive and make fewer excuses for some of their crap products.

nah, we know BM goes to the spa for cucumber facials and laser skin peels. and he uses oprah's best plastic surgeon! admit it BM! at least if he doesn't now he will be when those enclaves start filling the dealerships.

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!

ah, they days. my green buicks with green interiors, or GM cars with crushed red velvet interiors.......

yeach. that looks cheap.

O c'mon. Everything from Navigators to Durangos to escalades drink less fuel than the RDX. It's pretty ridiculous to ever ration it out. Bottom line, Honda has no clue about turbos and how to get it to work without drinking gas like a 6000 pound SUV. They can't make 4 cylinders with enough power to pull a heavier car around without it drinking gas either. Clearly, Honda is out of its ELEMENT here. In fact, the Element gets terrible gas mileage too. Honda has been successful with zippy light small cars with no torque so they've been able to get good mpg. Now they try to build what is by today's standards an average weight car/suv (honda's making porky cars now?) and they simply failed big time in both power and pricey 91 octane fuel consumption. Honda should have realized the v6 was the better option here for their porky little compact suv. In this application, they would have gotten a real motor under the hood with better mileage because it would not have been working so hard. the crv got screwed too, because that should have got a six as well. Look at the RAV4's destroy the CRV.

BRILLIANT!

silly boy, ! ( imeant the 4 popper but i spose the 6 does too)

if the female teen (18, at least) is drunk too then things become more 'dangerous'.

for 27k i'd much rather drive an Altima SE 6 speed manual that will crack 6 seconds zero to 60 and won't be some frickin rattle trap prius sort of thing. then i can do smoky FWD burnouts. or, conversely, i could buy a nice econocar, still top 30 mpg, and pocket 10 grand.

yeah, but its a cultural thing. those who work the least but make the most have a very self defeatist attitude about US stuff. Some of it is warranted, a lot not. Most of that sentiment is based on the past and the grass is grenner mentality. A product of our own people is not good enough. I am a better person than all you rednecks, so i need to show it by buying things imported. legitimately though, a big problem is simply that domestics haven't filled as many product niches or built as mnay desirable products. and GM and Ford always seem to lag in features and technology. Although, GM is starting to snap out of this. Your wife is loyal, pretty, fun to be around, cooks a mean dinner, etc.....but that sexy redhead neighbor chick is so much sexier. our US and business culture today is one of personal reward first. not much about growing communities, or building families, or strengthening our country. 'i work hard, so i will get what i deserve at everyone else's expense'. 'they screw me, so i will screw them'. No one wants to contribute to the success of others in this country; we are so competitive and so needing to come out on top ourselves, that part of that recipe has to include tearing everyone else down who is a threat. "in order for me to be successful and keep my bitchen job, i have to make sure that those people below me lose their jobs or never ascend to a good position, this is how I stay on top so i can buy nice sh1t for myself. nice imported sh1t." subsequently its ok to fuel foreign economies because 'they are so third world, let them do the cheap manual labor for me, as long as they never threaten my position and they keep those high paid union jerks here from ascending to any sort of position better than me". Many folks would rather see jobs go overseas because they do not see it as a threat to their own personal standing. they still think of people in china and india and stuff is inferior so its ok to USE them to make their sh1t, and keep our own citizens down here, so they can be better than them.

yes, because of so many revs and so little torque.

kumbaya. now everyone hold hands.

why's that? That vue gets at least 2.5x the gas mileage.

BM looks so glossy there. Almost like he's had some nip/tuck.

I like the Ion. I love plastic panels too. I've driven an Ion Redline. It's sweet. no need to be ashamed. The Ion is nifty.

they could have put a HEMI in the RDX and it would get better mileage. now you know why Honda hasn't done turbos till now. They suck at it. Couldn't make one powerful without it drinking fuel.

LMAO seriously though, does thing crack 10 mpg of 91 octane in the city? doesn't matter, its got VTEC........ my aztek does get 20 mpg in town, up to 25 on the autostrada, and that's driving it hard, although not as hard as the edmunds crew track testing an RDX at the Nurburgring or whatever. that whole piece is too funny for words. I am shooting in my pants its so funny...... "SHAWeD" LMFAO!!!!!!!

maybe so but I don't see the RL burning up the sales charts.......

I FEEL FOR YA. truth.

hell hath froze over. edmunds gives a gm product a good review.

oops, thought it was a new test, it was on edmunds front page. 11! ours goes to 11!

acrua sure does a nice job peddling rebadged hondas

an 11 mpg compact luxury suv with prop rod.

Edmunds RDX test like spinal taps says, ours goes to ELEVEN. SAD! FRICKING SAD!