Amid dwindling sales and little respect amongst the luxury crowd, Acura execs have decided to retreat from their past goal of competing head-to-head with the Germans and will instead downgrade.  Honda’s upscale division already had to cancel its rear-drive V-8 platform, as well as a halo exotic in line with the Audi R8 and coming Lexus LF-A.  Acura will resurrect a lower-end Civic-based compact in the RSX mold and a larger coupe along the lines of the defunct CL.

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Honda originally planned to show off the next generation NSX to the seething throngs at last year’s Tokyo Motor Show. But due to bad reviews of the car, Honda’s designers headed back to the drawing board to redesign the front clip housing the 550 hp, 4.5-liter V10. The NSX is slated for production in the fall of 2010. The new NSX will supposedly kick off Honda’s first serious attempt at producing rear-wheel-drive vehicles to rival BMW, Mercedes, Lexus and Infiniti.[Source:Auto Blog]

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Acura
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Aston-Martin
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Audi
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BMW
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Cadillac
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Chevrolet
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Chrysler
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Dodge
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Ferrari
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Ford
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Honda
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Hummer
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Hyundai
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Infiniti
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Jaguar
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Lamborghini
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Land Rover
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Lexus
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Mercedes-Benz
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Mitsubishi
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Nissan
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Porsche
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Subaru
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Toyota
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So you want a nice elegant Jaguar, you want a nice English car you think American cars are bad, well guess what Jaguar is owned by Ford. Here is the chart to see who owns who[Source:Cars!Cars!Cars!]

Rolls Royce

Chrysler owns:
-AMC (brand discontinued — Chrysler bought AMC primarily for the Jeep brand which was owned by AMC)
-Chrysler
-Dodge
-Eagle (brand discontinued)
-Jeep
-Plymouth (brand discontinued)

Daimler/Chrysler owns:
-Chrysler (small percentage)
-Maybach
-Mercedes-Benz
-Smart

Fiat owns:
-Alfa Romeo
-Ferrari
-Fiat
-Lancia
-Maserati

Ford owns:
-Aston Martin (SALE PENDING)
-Ford
-Jaguar
-Land Rover (bought from BMW)
-Lincoln
-Mazda (Ford owns 33% of Mazda)
-Mercury
-Volvo cars

Fuji Heavy Industries owns:
-Subaru

General Motors owns:

-Buick
-Cadillac
-Chevrolet
-Daewoo (GM owns 44%)
-Fiat (GM has decided to divorce itself from Fiat as of Feb ’05, but will retain 10% ownership.)
-GMC
-Holden
-Hummer
-Oldsmobile (brand discontinued)
-Opel
-Pontiac
-Saab
-Saturn
-Suzuki (2.5%, from 20%)
-Vauxhall

Honda owns:
-Acura
-Honda

Hyundai owns:
-Hyundai
-Kia

Isuzu owns:
-Isuzu
(Mitsubishi Corp., Itochu Corp. and Mizuho Corporate Bank owns part of Isuzu.)

Mitsubishi Corp. owns:
-Isuzu (13.6%)
-Mitsubishi Motors Corp (13%)

Nissan owns:
-Infiniti
-Nissan
-Renault (Nissan owns 15%)

PSA Peugeot Citroen owns:
-Citroen
-Peugeot

Porsche owns:
-Porsche
-VW (~31%)

Renault owns:
-Nissan (Renault owns 44%)

Toyota owns:
-Daihatsu (~51%)
-Fuji Heavy Industries — Subaru (Toyota owns ~20%. Toyota bought this from GM in late 2005. )
-Isuzu (5.9%, announced 7 Nov. 2006)
-Lexus
-Scion
-Toyota

Volkswagen owns:
-Audi
-Bentley
-Bugatti
-Lamborghini
-SEAT
-Skoda
-Volkswagen
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Honda has announced with much delay finally that the NSX will make its debut in 2010. It looks kinda weird something from a Spielberg movie but hey in 2010 it should blend in good. I hope they perfect on this and put a big engine in this like a v12 or v10, I really didn’t like the previous NSX which looked like the same car, i mean identical from 1990-2005, and i’m glad they stopped it. I really didn’t like that car at all, the way it looked and sounded with that Mitsubishi 3000gt looking spoiler. Do you like this body or the older one? [Source Auto Blog]

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