Hope you guys don't mind me starting a seperate thread as maybe other's in same boat as me in making a leap of faith with a different car choice or maybe it's not such a great leap or help justify buying a Acura.
My criteria for car choices has partly been due to single family income as have usually tried to get a economical car that's good at the gas pump.
Another factor is as from German heritage I stupidly have bought VW's most of my life as, well they are good German built car's and pretty reliable but not so good I have found years later as I try to hang on to a car for about 10-20 years. I find from year 10-20 usually alot of extra cost to keep car running on the road as had alot of power related problems, presently have a VW 2002 Jetta TDI(diesel), great on mileage around the 40-50 MPG. My car is 10 years old right nowand so far its actually been one of my best as it is loaded up,leather seats,power everything,sunroof etc. and had a pretty good sound sytem it for the time. My previous car's have been Jetta,Golf,Audi 5000(got from my Dad) and it was loaded with power everything(window's,sun roof,power seat's,heated sets,etc). Well all power related things started failing,all 4 window power seats did not work,heating in seats stopped working etc, I got rid of this car even though engine and body was solid.
In January I went for the first time to check out the ELS sound in a 2012 TSX and I was hooked, what a amazing surround sound system in a car.
Only way you can get the the ELS system is you have to get a fully loaded car,power everything so it worries me a bit, like how much extra expense do you have to put out for these car's over time.
The Acura's are a luxary car so gas mileage isn't that great on most of them so I have been leaning towards getting a TSX 2009 2.4 over the TL etc.
I would love to get the new 2013 ILX Hybrid but here in Canada that car comes in at 41 thousand so that's out of my price range.
Does anyone on this forum have experience with the Acura's 10-20 years with same car and are they fairly reliable.
I just found a 2009 TSX that only has 20 thousand miles on it and is going to cost around 25-28 thousand tax's in(our tax rate is 12% on used car's as well).
This car is a lease return(would have cost 40-45 thousand brand new in 2009).
My wife think's I'm nuts, why buy a car like this if it gets way worse gas mileage(local gas prices are around the 5 dollar mark per gallon) and main reason you want to buy the car is for the sound system(she's right on that one).
Her choice is to update more things in the house we live in as house is 15 years old now, does need some updating and start saving for children's wedding's etc
Sorry for long ramble but I don't know anyone around where I live who owns a Acura so have no knowledge as to how reliable these car's are and how much maint dollars you have to throw at the car over time.
Can anyone help me out with some personal fact's on car....
Are the car's such good build quality that extra cost at the pump can be offset by less maint cost years later.
thanks for reading.......
peter
My criteria for car choices has partly been due to single family income as have usually tried to get a economical car that's good at the gas pump.
Another factor is as from German heritage I stupidly have bought VW's most of my life as, well they are good German built car's and pretty reliable but not so good I have found years later as I try to hang on to a car for about 10-20 years. I find from year 10-20 usually alot of extra cost to keep car running on the road as had alot of power related problems, presently have a VW 2002 Jetta TDI(diesel), great on mileage around the 40-50 MPG. My car is 10 years old right nowand so far its actually been one of my best as it is loaded up,leather seats,power everything,sunroof etc. and had a pretty good sound sytem it for the time. My previous car's have been Jetta,Golf,Audi 5000(got from my Dad) and it was loaded with power everything(window's,sun roof,power seat's,heated sets,etc). Well all power related things started failing,all 4 window power seats did not work,heating in seats stopped working etc, I got rid of this car even though engine and body was solid.
In January I went for the first time to check out the ELS sound in a 2012 TSX and I was hooked, what a amazing surround sound system in a car.
Only way you can get the the ELS system is you have to get a fully loaded car,power everything so it worries me a bit, like how much extra expense do you have to put out for these car's over time.
The Acura's are a luxary car so gas mileage isn't that great on most of them so I have been leaning towards getting a TSX 2009 2.4 over the TL etc.
I would love to get the new 2013 ILX Hybrid but here in Canada that car comes in at 41 thousand so that's out of my price range.
Does anyone on this forum have experience with the Acura's 10-20 years with same car and are they fairly reliable.
I just found a 2009 TSX that only has 20 thousand miles on it and is going to cost around 25-28 thousand tax's in(our tax rate is 12% on used car's as well).
This car is a lease return(would have cost 40-45 thousand brand new in 2009).
My wife think's I'm nuts, why buy a car like this if it gets way worse gas mileage(local gas prices are around the 5 dollar mark per gallon) and main reason you want to buy the car is for the sound system(she's right on that one).
Her choice is to update more things in the house we live in as house is 15 years old now, does need some updating and start saving for children's wedding's etc
Sorry for long ramble but I don't know anyone around where I live who owns a Acura so have no knowledge as to how reliable these car's are and how much maint dollars you have to throw at the car over time.
Can anyone help me out with some personal fact's on car....
Are the car's such good build quality that extra cost at the pump can be offset by less maint cost years later.
thanks for reading.......
peter
