4 cylinder better than V6?

I am 100% positive that Honda deliberately built not one but TWO
versions of an inferior transmission, and deliberately pushed it out to
its customers who had other expectations based on Honda's reputation.

Honda has shown that it is not against trashing its reputation to make
money--or at the very least, Honda has shown that senior management is
not on the stick with regard to protecting its reputation.

In short: as far as I'm concerned, while I don't put Honda into the
GM/Ford category, they're not looking out for me one itsy bitsy bit.
They've shown that they are capable of not caring what I think of them
six months after I've bought the car.

They are now in a position of earning that back--and it's FAR harder to
earn a reputation than to lose one.

I sincerely hope someone at Honda lost big during those years they let
the beancounters run the show, and ignored the engineers wholesale.

 

Yeah. Like the transmissions they put on their 6 cylinder engines,
all
the way from the 1998 model year through the 2004 model year.[/QUOTE]

Of which I have 2 vehicles that have both been repaired and had the
warranty extended as well.

Bean counters run businesses. It's unfortunate, but they (businesses)
don't run on conscience. Just think Pinto.....

 

Prior to the mid-90s, Honda understood the balance of beancounting and
engineering.

It's when they let the beancounters tell the engineers to "**** off,
build what we tell you for the money we tell you" that things went to
hell. In many very OBVIOUS and bad ways.

 

how those same pinto assholes got away with the same kind of financial
sociopathy that killed thousands of americans with the exploder fiasco
is beyond me. those vehicles should never have rolled just because of a
flat tire. and they shouldn't have had the cabins crush when they did.
but frod knew they would and calculated that potential payouts were
trivial compared to profits. thus, just like they did with the pinto,
they decided to continue rather than redesign. americans died for frod
profits. execs should be in jail for that. period.

 

We are in perfect agreement on this.

 

Unfortunately as much as Elmo's post seems like conspiracy theory, but
it has some truths to it. It's kind of like Rebates - the companies
are banking that not everybody will remember to return the rebates, or
they make mistakes by sending in the wrong this or writing the wrong
information on rebates so they can deny it.

I've actually read a study on this in a car magazine a few years ago.
Not everybody gets a recall notice because of change of address,
change of ownership, etc. Therefore, the owners of these
Hondas/Acuras will go to their local shop to fix the transmissions
because it's cheaper than the dealership. Beancounter wins.

 

Prez Obama's in charge, and now he owns the American car companies. US
Government, who answers to nobody, now are in the business of
producing cars.... can you say PINTO II!