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#1095 of 1099 Re: Questions around title [home4sale2] by kyfdx HOST Jul 17, 2009 (3:25 am)
Replying to: home4sale2 (Jul 16, 2009 10:34 pm) I'm not that familiar with Illinois, but a few weeks sounds about right.. Did you buy a car that had just been traded in? Replies to this message: home4sale2 (Jul 17, 2009 6:23 am) kyfdx (Jul 17, 2009 6:29 am)
#1096 of 1099 Re: Questions around title [kyfdx] by home4sale2 Jul 17, 2009 (6:23 am)
Replying to: kyfdx (Jul 17, 2009 3:25 am) Yes, it had just been traded in a few days prior. Replies to this message: kyfdx (Jul 17, 2009 6:29 am)
#1097 of 1099 Re: Questions around title [home4sale2] by kyfdx HOST Jul 17, 2009 (6:29 am)
Replying to: home4sale2 (Jul 17, 2009 6:23 am) Sounds reasonable..
#1098 of 1099 do they even make RL by inspectoring Nov 21, 2009 (2:40 pm)
what is going on - nobody is buying RL anymore??!! Replies to this message: tonycd (Nov 22, 2009 5:49 pm)
#1099 of 1099 They make a few. [inspectoring] by tonycd Nov 22, 2009 (5:49 pm)
Replying to: inspectoring (Nov 21, 2009 2:40 pm) And unfortunately, that's pretty much the case: nobody is buying the RL anymore.   It's a terrific car, but several things brought it down:   •People with nearly $50k to spend wanted a bigger car, a bigger name, rear wheel drive, and a V8. The RL has none of these. It was designed in Japan for Japanese executive buyers' wants, and didn't fit American tastes as well as the Lexus and Infiniti flagships.   •The Acura TL was cheaper by $15,000, and so good that nobody -- not even Acura salesmen -- could really make the case for paying more. In fact, the RL was better built from better materials, rode better and had the world's most sophisticated AWD system. But that's all subtle stuff and didn't impress the neighbors.   •Acura overreacted for 2009 and slaughtered the styling of the car, most notably with its buck-tooth grille that everybody hates. That grille probably looks even worse on the RL than on any other Acura, partly because it's grafted onto a car that wasn't made for it.   •Now there's a new TL, and it steals whatever thunder the RL had left with an option package that borrows the RL's trick AWD system. With the RL itself demoted to an ugly nose outside and fake wood inside (except on the very top trim level), there's now officially pretty much no reason left to buy one.   Buying a USED RL, however, is a screaming deal. They're not ugly like the new one, and the car is so underappreciated that the price has dropped like a stone. That's where the real sales action is today in RL's.

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