Showing posts with label Acura Rumours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acura Rumours. Show all posts

Photoshopped pic of a Acura TSX Wagon

As per previous post on this, found this 'shopped' pic on Autoblog, being that I deal with Honda's it pains me to see an 'A' on that front grill instead of a 'H', but beggers can't be choosers....
Source;
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/10/report-acura-considering-tsx-wagon-for-the-u-s/

Acura “Closely” Considering TSX Wagon

Wagons have been in the news quite a bit lately—Cadillac is soon to launch a CTS wagon, Mercedes-Benz just unwrapped the eccentric E-class wagon. We’ve now heard that Acura may be on the verge of bringing out a wagon version of the TSX.

“We’re closely, closely looking at it,” said John Watts, senior manager of Acura product planning. Watts believes that the younger part of the target market for the TSX—specifically the Gen Y portion—might be open to such a variant. “Boomers, and [the older among] Gen X, who had wagons as kids don’t want one, but the new kids do,” he said. Count us in that group, too, Johnny.
It wouldn’t be hard to develop, either. A wagon version of the TSX already is sold abroad as the Honda Accord Touring. All Acura would have to do is rebadge the thing and get it approved by the feds . . . the automotive equivalent of flickin’ a (somewhat costly) switch. And with everyone looking for handy, stylish, and thrifty alternatives to gas-guzzling SUVs, we think the time is right for said switch to be flicked.

Source;
http://blog.caranddriver.com/acura-%e2%80%9cclosely%e2%80%9d-considering-tsx-wagon/

Acura Rumour: Acura TSX V6 To Add AWD?

Here's something interesting, personally I don't think that this will come to fruition - it would cannibalize the TL too much.
Although not confirmed yet by anyone at Acura, the possibility of an all-wheel drive version of the V6-powered TSX looks good. When asked if such a car was in the works at a press event, one Acura executive said they've definitely looked at such a setup, but nothing was set in stone.

So it's hardly a done deal, but Acura's doesn't go around '"looking at possibilities" without having some kind of solid game plan behind it. We expect to see an all-wheel drive version of the TSX V6 by next year.

Source;
http://blogs.edmunds.com/straightline/2009/08/acura-tsx-v6-to-add-awd.html