solutions to problems that don't exist.
the belt is a perceived weak point ~. Now put one in an affordable machine
I get that the cost is out of control.
But remember this is just the flagship vehicle, it's there for you the customer to Ooo & Ahh over while picking up something cheaper.
It's like looking at a Talon R4 Live Valve while picking up a p500...
The cost that bugs me is the p500 is priced above what the p700 used to (and still should) cost.
Problems that don't exist, some honda engineer back in the early 1970s put an extra wheel on a small motorcycle creating the ATC.
The profit from that over the next 15 years financed selling and making cars in the USA taking honda from an also ran to a major car maker in the world.
Maybe headlights wouldn't make or break a SxS, but I bet the steering sensor was already in the EPS and all it took was a little computer coding to execute this.
Non belt trans (no-homo) in a SxS.
I bet honda engineers look at the CVT in other brand SxS and wish they could spend the difference in cost to the DCT on something cool that mattered.
Man, a 12 inch screen head unit with tunes, GPS, captured service manual linked to the DCT codes and a payment calculator built in...