Anyone Know What Honda Has in the Works for 2005?

for the US market beside the new Odsyssey. Any chance will see an Accord
wagon?

 

A four door pickup based on the Pilot.

 

Do you believe a pick up based on a FWD car chassis will
sell to truck buyers?


mike hunt

 

heard roumours of a re-born CRX being in production over 2005. this is old
news, as honda was just toying with the idea when i heard. maybe they`ve
come to a final decision?

http://www.crxsi.com/resources/CRX_concept/

tim

 

I believe Honda knows more about the car and truck market than you do.

 

If they brought that back, it'd be awesome.

 

That may be. I believe that Honda will learn the hard way, as
Toyota did with the T100 and Subaru has with the Baja, that if
you expect to sell trucks to truck buyers and not just to woman
you better build a real truck.


mike hunt

 

How magnanomous of you.

 

It doesn't have to.

Why did you make the ASSumption that something that vaguely resembles a
truck must therefore be marketed to Joe Redneck to replace his F150?

That's the same thinking that made all the senseless CRV noise back in
97, when people heard it drove all wheels and therefore insisted on
comparing it to a jacked-up Jimmy.

Fact: Honda will sell all of these 4 door truck things they can make,
and they will be able to keep the price way up, too. It's the next
Odyssey--a market that hasn't been touched yet by Honda and which Honda
buyers want.

 

People said that about SUV's off car chassis.....but look at the success of
the Pilot, Highlander, CRV, RAV4, and others. Don't forget about the El
Camino and Ranchero of years past.

 

Whoops, there go my plans on getting an '04 Civic Si hatch.

I'm willing to wait for this new CRX.

Don't disappoint me Honda!

--
Claff
04 Hyundai Santa Fe LX 3.5 AWD
02 Hyundai Sonata
92 Mazda MX3 GS
71 MGB
and fond memories of 78 Civic 1200, 77 Civic 1200, another 77 Civic 1200, 79
Civic 1200, and 87 CRX Si
http://www.claff.net/claff/cars

 

Isn't the Insight conceptually a reborn CRX HF?

 

I love the Insight's interior. It has the same feel as the CRX's, but it's
much more refined. Unfortunately, the sporting aspect has been traded for
fuel efficiency.

When comparing a modern car to the CRX's attitude, I think the Celica GTS
comes closest. If Toyota was able to release a stripped down version of the
Celica while shaving off several thousand off the price, we would have
ourselves something that would be worth taking up the CRX's baton.

Pars
98 Civic Hatch

 

Sorry, I ONLY buy 4x4 trucks. Doesn't matter who makes it. I buy trucks for
work and play and would NEVER buy a FWD truck.

B

 

I's your money spend it were you wish, I could not car less.
I guess you never heard of the Subaru Baja 4dr truck? Not hard
to figure out why, nobody buys it either.


mike hunt

 

You are referring something intend for car buyers to stop them
from going to trucks, not truck buyers. The the El Camino and
Ranchero were RWD adn they never sold well either and were
dropped.

 

You are correct again, I have only one wife


mike hunt

 

I hear the Honda Accord hybrid for 05

 

I don't think Honda's going to make a FWD truck. It'll drive all wheels.

That's not to say it'll be a four-by in the classic sense. It'll be an
all-wheel drive vehicle, a la Pilot/MDX, with an open-air trunk.

We went through this 7 years ago with the CRV. There's a HUGE
difference between a Jeep driving all four wheels and an Audi Quattro
driving all four wheels.

Just because all four wheels are being driven, doesn't mean they're the
same thing or were ever meant to do the same things. Jesus, people.
Buy a clue.

And they wonder why I keep saying that people are idiots.

 

What about the FIT being sold in the USDM! Pretty neat but too small for
me.

http://www.vtec.net/news/news-item?news_item_id=195188