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What do you guys think of the Honda Element?

Any rumors of an Element hybrid in development?

TIA,
Sam

<barasch@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What do you guys think of the Honda Element?

I drove one.

Ups: Typical Honda quality...comfortable and ergonomic. Spacious for its
size, perfect for the light utilitarian.

Downs: Needs more power, and it looks like crap. The dealer called it a
"Mini Hummer", I call it an aborted Brinks truck. Not as ugly as an Aztec,
but not far behind.

> Any rumors of an Element hybrid in development?
>
> TIA,
> Sam

Not that I have heard.

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:36:22 -0500, "NetSock" <NetSock@nospam.com>
wrote:

><barasch@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> What do you guys think of the Honda Element?
>
>I drove one.
>
>Ups: Typical Honda quality...comfortable and ergonomic. Spacious for its
>size, perfect for the light utilitarian.
>
>Downs: Needs more power, and it looks like crap. The dealer called it a
>"Mini Hummer", I call it an aborted Brinks truck. Not as ugly as an Aztec,
>but not far behind.

LOL. I agree, the Element is ugly, but I think that was the idea.
Absolute utilitarian. But I think Scion from Toyota will be, hands
down, the fugliest thing on the road once it comes out.

What's still so bad about Aztek is that the ever so intelligent folks
at GM/Pontiac thought it actually was a good design. They actually
thought that it looked good. That's what makes it worse. With the
Element or the Scion, they both exude absolute utilitarian. "We don't
care about looks" type of attitude with the cars. But Aztek was a car
that they went out of their way to pretty it up and they still ended
up with that.

> But I think Scion from Toyota will be, hands
>down, the fugliest thing on the road once it comes out.

They're already out over here and they look far better than the Element.






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<barasch@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What do you guys think of the Honda Element?

There've been several general threads about the Element already.
Try being more specific i.e. telling us what you're looking for and why it
interests you?
What would you be using it for? Transporting what? How many people? Animals?
Sporting gear? etc.
I have a 2002 CR-V, already looked at the Element at the dealer and I will
be glad to help.

barasch@NOSPAM.hotmail.com wrote:
>
> What do you guys think of the Honda Element?

Its the bastard runt son of the Aztec and the Hummer.

The UGLIEST car ever made.

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In article <bnmgkp$2qj$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, "NetSock" <NetSock@nospam.com> wrote:

--> Downs: Needs more power, and it looks like crap

Needs more power???? I've routinely spun wheels in mine; it certainly is the
most powerful car I've ever owned. But I don't pretend to be AJ Foyt. The
one down is the pathetic gas mileage.

Believe it or not, the looks "kind of" grow on one, but as one for whom a
vehicle is a utensil or tool, it's irrelevant. If it easily carries my
bicycle to the start of the club rides, that's all I need.

Art

> The one down is the pathetic gas mileage.

What did you expect, the same milleage as a Honda Civic?
I find that my 2002 CR-V has a great gas milleage for all it can carry.
Try any big SUV and you'll cry everytime you pull to a gas station.
I drove some 2003 Ford Explorers and Expeditions. I would buy gas as often
as with my CRV but instead of getting 10 galons, it was 20 or 25 each time.

It's an ugly car, but has grown on me in a Dada kind of style.

Mileage concerns me, that's why I'd like to hold out for a hybrid.

Maybe next year...

> Its the bastard runt son of the Aztec and the Hummer.
>
> The UGLIEST car ever made.

Every SUV-like vehicle on the road is fugly, IMHO.. Is the element uglier
than a Lincoln Navigator or a Dodge Durango? Hardly. And it costs
considerably less with much better mileage, to boot.

Obviously, beauty is in the eye on your driveway.

--Monty