What Does Honda Think Now?
#1
Posted 31 March 2009 - 02:34
Bummer.
#3
Posted 31 March 2009 - 07:20
http://forums.autosp...highlight=Honda
http://forums.autosp...highlight=Honda
#4
Posted 31 March 2009 - 09:46
#5
Posted 31 March 2009 - 09:55
?
#6
Posted 31 March 2009 - 10:33
Originally posted by netfetter
Just shows you what a decent engine in their car makes, how long before Toyota follow Honda out and then see success for whoever takes them over?
No, it shows what building a decent chassis does for you.
#7
Posted 31 March 2009 - 16:22
#8
Posted 31 March 2009 - 17:39
Hell, what does di Montezemolo think?
He had a standing and quite successful relationship w/Ross and could have had Ross leading the team.
Honda - in this most recent iteration - didn't get it anyway. It is Ferrari who let the genius get away in the first place and are the big losers here.
#9
Posted 31 March 2009 - 17:40
You beat me to that.Originally posted by Bernd Rosemeyer
Honda must think that Mercedes builds better engines than Honda.
#10
Posted 01 April 2009 - 00:28
#11
Posted 01 April 2009 - 00:43
#13
Posted 01 April 2009 - 01:28
Originally posted by dgduris
What does Honda think?!
Hell, what does di Montezemolo think?
He had a standing and quite successful relationship w/Ross and could have had Ross leading the team.
Honda - in this most recent iteration - didn't get it anyway. It is Ferrari who let the genius get away in the first place and are the big losers here.
I hate to say it, but I think your right. :
#14
Posted 01 April 2009 - 01:43
Originally posted by dgduris
What does Honda think?!
Hell, what does di Montezemolo think?
He had a standing and quite successful relationship w/Ross and could have had Ross leading the team.
Honda - in this most recent iteration - didn't get it anyway. It is Ferrari who let the genius get away in the first place and are the big losers here.
I think he's pretty happy actually, imagine if Brawn chose Ferrari engines rather than Merc.
Ferrari being beaten by its own engines would have been a disaster.
We don't know if Ferrari "let him go".
RB is not a designer.
Brawn GP had 18 months to design this car.
Honda are the only loosers here.
#15
Posted 01 April 2009 - 01:49
Originally posted by ascoli
Brawn GP had 18 months to design this car.
Honda are the only loosers here.
I didn't know Brawn GP existed last year.
"Looser"
#16
Posted 01 April 2009 - 02:22
Originally posted by dgduris
What does Honda think?!
Hell, what does di Montezemolo think?
He had a standing and quite successful relationship w/Ross and could have had Ross leading the team.
Honda - in this most recent iteration - didn't get it anyway. It is Ferrari who let the genius get away in the first place and are the big losers here.
I had the sense at the time that di Montezemolo was looking for Italian management at Ferrari.
#17
Posted 01 April 2009 - 02:56
Originally posted by ExcessIsBest
...The bee-hive mentality of Japanese industry creates competent, reliable, econo-boxes, but not excellent automobiles...
You live in Detroit...right? And I bet... never been to Japan, let alone a Japanese factory
Those competent, reliable, econo-boxes, are excellent automobiles
That's why so many people bought them
#18
Posted 01 April 2009 - 03:03
#19
Posted 01 April 2009 - 03:56
Tough times means tough decisions which some work and some don't. In this case they may have made the wrong call but then of course we ain't on the board of directors in Honda and so don't know the whole story.
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#20
Posted 01 April 2009 - 03:59
#21
Posted 01 April 2009 - 14:19
Originally posted by djellison
What's the Japanese for
?
Absolutely. It's the ultimate backhanded compliment. I guess I can now forget about a near Japanese-spec Civic Type R being brought to the USA now...
#22
Posted 01 April 2009 - 22:18
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