No, I just drive by them in the woods broke down. If you ride aggressively, the weakest link in the P1 is the A arm's and connecting points and shock's , you up grade A arms and shocks the next thing to go is your A arm mounts and so on. I have came to terms with our P1, it's no high speed thrasher, so where will the Talon fall in line, will it be a bruiser or ???????????????? If it beats out said competitor, I'll have one!
Yea, I remember when I was starting to mow the yard, parents bought a Honda because they were one of the first to have the blade that stopped when you released a handle.... that thing ran for close to 25 years and I bet it would have gone longer if we had changed the oil regularly.
This sh*t just kills me. Seriously... Is this real, or a joke? If it's real, I'm completely flabbergasted! They've spent the time, money, staff, and parts, and made the effort to get through 6000 layers of bureaucracy to get approval to do something like this Ridgeline thing, and even more incredibly, a 130 m.p.h. lawnmower, but the new P500's get a couple new colors, and still no 50" machine to compete with anyone???... do they all smoke crack every morning? W T F ?!?! I'm starting to think this company hates winning... well, aside from the lawnmower.....
I would love to have heard the meeting that got the approval for allocating the funds to build a 130 mph lawnmower.... "So, you want us to spend money to build the fastest lawnmower?" "Do you think that'll improve our lawnmower sales?" "Probably not, but it's really cool" " Sounds good, let's do it!" "So what about the Pioneer line, and our marine engines?" "Well we've gone all out on those product lines, and have some really exciting stuff!" "Really!?" "You bet- we did a huge market study, spent a lot of money y'know, and found out that all we needed to crush the competition is more colors!" "That's it!?!" "I know, right!?" "So, we added White to our flagship outboards, and two new colors to the Pioneer lines!!" "Wow, you guys knocked it outta the park!" "The competition is getting caught flat-footed this time!" "We're going to put in for substantial bonuses for the whole team"! "Outstanding work everyone!......." "Now let's go smoke some more crack, and just sit back and enjoy our sky-rocketing sales"!!
The Talon's gonna have to be insanely outstanding for Honda to pull anyone away from the competition, or even be more than a blip in the market radar...
This sh*t just kills me. Seriously... Is this real, or a joke? If it's real, I'm completely flabbergasted! They've spent the time, money, staff, and parts, and made the effort to get through 6000 layers of bureaucracy to get approval to do something like this Ridgeline thing, and even more incredibly, a 130 m.p.h. lawnmower, but the new P500's get a couple new colors, and still no 50" machine to compete with anyone???... do they all smoke crack every morning? W T F ?!?! I'm starting to think this company hates winning... well, aside from the lawnmower.....
I would love to have heard the meeting that got the approval for allocating the funds to build a 130 mph lawnmower.... "So, you want us to spend money to build the fastest lawnmower?" "Do you think that'll improve our lawnmower sales?" "Probably not, but it's really cool" " Sounds good, let's do it!" "So what about the Pioneer line, and our marine engines?" "Well we've gone all out on those product lines, and have some really exciting stuff!" "Really!?" "You bet- we did a huge market study, spent a lot of money y'know, and found out that all we needed to crush the competition is more colors!" "That's it!?!" "I know, right!?" "So, we added White to our flagship outboards, and two new colors to the Pioneer lines!!" "Wow, you guys knocked it outta the park!" "The competition is getting caught flat-footed this time!" "We're going to put in for substantial bonuses for the whole team"! "Outstanding work everyone!......." "Now let's go smoke some more crack, and just sit back and enjoy our sky-rocketing sales"!!
The Talon's gonna have to be insanely outstanding for Honda to pull anyone away from the competition, or even be more than a blip in the market radar...
Just wait until the Talon comes out in it's second year! Can you get a 40 foot toy hauler!Buy 1 and let me drive it...
Yup, heard it from my rep many times. The Japanese think we're idiots. They absolutely do not understand Americans, or particularly what we want. I was told it was a major battle just to get Honda to make 'repair kits'. They could not grasp the concept of putting all the needed parts to repair a water pump (for instance) in one box. For some reason, they seemingly choose to ignore cost in time it takes to look up, or inventory 15 separate pieces vs, one box with all the pieces in it to do the job. Yamaha is much the same way in that respect. It took literally years for Honda to get that simple (to us) and logical move accomplished, but they still don't get it. If I order a carb kit, quite often it will include all the screws (that never need replacing) for a carb, but no intake or air box gaskets. Some carbs have fuel pumps built into them- a carb kit will not include any of the parts in the kit for the fuel pump. Crazy. Another example is their V-6 outboard gearcase. They have a known issue of being difficult to shift out of gear when a higher than average pitch prop is installed. They've had the issue since they started producing the V-6 platform- many years.. The fix is truly a simple change that Honda refuses to make. Period. Same issue to this day, and we've lost customers over it, because who's going to believe that the $20,000 (plus) outboard they just bought should take two hands to pull out of gear?
I’ve never said what Sport we will have the following year. I love Honda and have had a bunch but I’ve learned something with the Wolverine.
That's exactly what I've been trying to say! I'm a Honda Guy!
I heard it was going to have the old Mazda Wankel motor, in revised form!
