Re: Why Re-badge ?

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Re: Why Re-badge ?

sparta300	13 Apr 2007 02:56
"Tegger" > Yep. Besides Canada/US, it's the only other place on earth where the > "Acura" brand is sold. China too, http://world.honda.com/news/2005/c050725.html

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12 Apr 2007 18:26

Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote in news:Xns99106C8A4274Fjyanikkuanet@
64.209.0.84:

>>> Why would some people re-badge an Acura to Honda ?????
>>>
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>
> Is there even an "Acura" namebrand in Japan?

Yep. Besides Canada/US, it's the only other place on earth where the
"Acura" brand is sold.

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Jim Yanik	12 Apr 2007 14:39
>> Why would some people re-badge an Acura to Honda ????? >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > swapping badges is also a way of pretending to others that you've got a > foreign model, which I guess is supposed to be a status symbol. Is there even an "Acura" namebrand in Japan? Signature Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net

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11 Apr 2007 21:25

> Why would some people re-badge an Acura to Honda ?????
>
> I mean what is the "logic" in these peoples brain to cause them to go
> thru the trouble of
> seeking out Honda badges, buy them, take off Acura ones, stick on
> Honda one....

It's just an effort to be "different".

Since Acura models are sold in most other parts of the world as Hondas,
swapping badges is also a way of pretending to others that you've got a
foreign model, which I guess is supposed to be a status symbol.

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firewolf	11 Apr 2007 19:03
Why would some people re-badge an Acura to Honda ????? I mean what is the "logic" in these peoples brain to cause them to go thru the trouble of seeking out Honda badges, buy them, take off Acura ones, stick on Honda one....

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