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Old 03-21-2007, 10:05 PM
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Default Re: Honda is building airplanes?

Goundhawg,
I agree its one nice looking plane. IMO its best to buy things from manufactures that specialize in that one item. Honda builds cars (and some other things), but their bread and butter is cars. If and when they get in to planes if they do not feel they are successfull they might pull out leaving the plane owners hanging. I think its too risky to dump 3.5 mil in to something until the company making it is established and proven that they are not going anywhere.

We have a boat from Toyota. Talk about a mistake. Its nicely put together, the engine is great, and performance wise the hull is fair. But, Toyota pulled out of the boat business, completely ****ing over every one of the boat owners. I cannot get service done for the boat anymore, and for the last two years have had to get all of my parts from Atlanta Georgia. I cant get a dealer to take the boat on trade, and I cant pawn it off on someone in a private sale. Imagine if the same thing happened with a plane, only istead of having 40K to lose you have over 3.5 million.
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