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TonyEX
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Don't get me wrong.. on a smooth dry road the RSX-S is really fun.. but.. the world is not made up of smooth dry roads.... if it were, I could live with a 300 bhp Mustang -reliability and insurance issues aside.
I realize the 05 is supposed to be much better, and yeah... I suppose I could change my longstanding policy of changing only the tires as needed and exchanging the car before I gotta swap the wiper blades... but...
Our 03 RSX-S overall has been a big let down after the Prelude SH and GSR. Even the Si has a much better sorted suspension. I noted the springy back end the very first time I drove the car... I even had my wife drive the same loop and sure enough she noted it too.... It was a surprise.. and I though we'd get used to it. But noooo.... I just can't bring myself to throw the car into a turn on account of the rear suspension and the crappy tires.
Should the Type A be the stock setup? OF COURSE! If you want a soft set up, buy the base car, but remember the GSR offered a stiffer set up than the base Integras and it was somewhat hard to live with on a long drive, but man! the GSR could be thrown into turns with its Michelins with full confidence. Indded, we kept the GSR for five years... after replacing the shocks at -with OEM of course- at 80K miles we put in a set of Nittos (third set of tires) and the performance went up a couple of notches... incredible car that was.
The RSX-S should be the same.
No, I think the marketing guys at AHM really screwed this one up. It seems like they tried to sucker us with the Type A as a short term fix ( to pay to fix what should have never been wrong ) and now with the 05 they are fixing it half way. The car has huuuge potential, so it seems, but the Type S - GSR buyer is not interested in full boat comfort nor the ability to put on lipstick while driving. That's either the base RSX or the TSX AT type of buyer.
Perhaps that's one the reason why RSX sales are not so good... the car is damn poor compromise.
Let's not even go about the 15 inch rims in my 03 Si either.. but THAT's a different story. At least the Si is predictable, the RSX-S is not.
That's why when time came to get trade it in... I didn't fight too hard to get the 05, settling (?) instead on the Accord Coupe V6 MT.
BTW- blue too? Nice color.
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RyanDL
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Your RSX posts confuse me, Tony. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that your opinion wavers on the car. Have you driven it recently? When you post negatively on it, it usually means you haven't driven it in a while. Go for a drive a re-post, please. ;-)
In all honesty, I agree and have posted similar observations. The stock suspension was too soft and the rear is just weird. Maybe if all goes well when I'm at the dealer next, I'll try to steal a drive in an '05 to compare. I've never driven an Si, so no comment there.
But alas, all this commentary is almost meaningless: the RSX is toast in the next 1-2 model years.
Ryan
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TonyEX
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Yes my opinions about the car are all over the map, ain't it?
That's because WE really love driving it. And I've been driving it a lot lately, BTW. It's just that the car feels so good, that it's few foibles stick out like a truckfull of giant sore thumbs. If only, if only AHM had put real tires and fixed the suspension... I mean, how much would it have cost them... probably nothing.
This car drives me nuts. When I drive it I understand how Richard Burton must have felt about Elizabeth Taylor... twiced married, twice divorced... Love and Hate. I hate it because I love it.
I suppose it's all in the expectations.. our RSX-S has around 25K miles by now and the motor has broken in beautifully... you can hear, feel and touch the "mechanicalness" of it all... what with a muted intake growl and the sound of the machinery.... the steering is quite good... the 2nd gear grind has gone when the car warms up....
I've been driving a lot lately... I will be sad when it goes, that's for sure.
Toast in two years?
Well, that's another car I've done gone and killed: CRX, Vigor, CL, Prelude and now RSX.
RyanDL wrote:
Your RSX posts confuse me, Tony. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that your opinion wavers on the car. Have you driven it recently? When you post negatively on it, it usually means you haven't driven it in a while. Go for a drive a re-post, please. ;-)
In all honesty, I agree and have posted similar observations. The stock suspension was too soft and the rear is just weird. Maybe if all goes well when I'm at the dealer next, I'll try to steal a drive in an '05 to compare. I've never driven an Si, so no comment there.
But alas, all this commentary is almost meaningless: the RSX is toast in the next 1-2 model years.
Ryan
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