charleswrivers
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- Charles
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That's salesmen talking to try to sell cars. I've heard a salesmen say that an Accords traversely mounted VQ35 variant made the car "the same as a 350Z" years back when I was looking at Xterras but took a minute to check out an Accord while I was there. When I asked if that meant the Xterra was better because it was a VQ bored out to 4.0 jokingly, he replied "yes". After that, I stopped listening to anything he said and when I went back later to look at them again, when that guy wasn't available, I said I'd work with anyone else because that guy didn't know anything about the cars they were selling.Thanks for the reply, yeah there is differences sometime large. I guess that is why it bothers me they keep making it "less special" by throwing around they all got type R engines when they dont. They should do more to control thier brand. I mean I've been at a honda dealer and have had them tell me oh this accord has the same engine as the type R.. no..no it doesn't.
So far as the "less special" aspect... it's just the world we live in. The K-series engine has been around a long time and the present redesign has been used to power the CTR... and other variants are also replace the J35 where they can for CAFE... along with dumping their 6 speeds for the 9 speeds Acura had been using and the new 10 speed that came out in the last year or so. It's the engine they have available to accomplish it's goals. So far as the "K20C1"... the CTR is the only car Honda has that gets it. Outside of Honda... the crate variants are going to some very impressive cars that would seem in no way to dilute it's appeal... in my opinion.
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