GFunk said:
Can someone explain to me why it is cool to re-badge an Acura as a Honda? Isn't it like re-badging a Lexus as a Toyota?
No offense, just curious.
Good question. I don't exactly understand it either, but from what we're heard on these boards, it seems like it's kind of a snobby reverse-snob thing.....
I'm sure my phraseology is going to get "corrected"

but it goes something like this: Acuras are really just Hondas, and even though most people are stupid and don't realize it, WE know it, and we're not gonna let the world think that we don't, and besides that Hondas are great cars (which they are) and what kind of stupid BS is it to put a different name on it for prestige, the whole thing is BS, and we're not about BS. And we're proud of it!
Larchmont, who thinks Acuras are legitimately different from Hondas in the N.A. market and that the distinction is meaningful.
But knows that the "reverse-snobs" have a point.
