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It appears your comparison of the Legend and ‘Presara’, is academic, at best. What I mean is simply to put aside a feature like AWD as not being value of money – is quite laudable at best. Thats the whole point of having different classes of vehicles! I’m sure you’d agree that the Rolls Royce or Maybach isn’t value for money, but to let you in on a surprise, for every person who owns one of these, it is value for money. Its a marketing thing. This applies for everything in life. If you buy something, you will always find it value for money. It is upto the marketer to convince you of the same (prior to sale and often even afterwards).

If you compare the same vehicle, ‘Presara’ to a Merc E class or a BMW series 5, you’d find a lot of similarities in the feature list, even the lower end models of the German brands might have a ‘smaller’ features list. Does that make it comparable? I wouldn’t say so. I hope you’ve got the point.

Last of all, if you’ve had a bad experience with Honda, sorry about that. But I’ve personally had a great experience with Honda and a less than great experience with Toyota, but having that prejudice for some model of Toyota, isn’t being fair to Toyota, similarly, I hope you wouldn’t be prejudiced, by past experinces (good or bad), the best would be to go and check out the car yourself. Personally I would like to own one, though still I’m only considering it and not finalized yet (the Legend). But this forum has greatly helped me, especially by those who own it. I don’t expect it to be perfect in all features, but I expect it to do it pretty well and last a lot longer than most of its competitors.

GOD Bless!

PS: No offence inteded Paul, I hope you take it all in the right spirit!

I was founder of a software house that had the good fortune to sell out for a substantial amount last year. I continue in the business on a day to day basis and find the Legend is perfectly suited for this. I had enough trouble with our clients after they saw the press release about our sale without making them even more jealous ! I must admit I would like, and could afford a Bugatti but there is a limit !

For your interest the original Press Release about us is below.

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Reasons for buying were to get a car that is different. It’s good to have a car that is a bit different to the Mercs and Audis of this world. If you are a noter buy the Audi. Disappointments are the lack of bluetooth and the $4,000 price tag for the Sat Nav. I got the larger wheels and parking sensors that work brilliantly. Larger wheels add to road noise though but improve handling.

I think there is little point in trying to compare with vehicles such as Aurion. The Legend is a true luxury vehicle and much of the extra cost over the Accord V6 goes into the AWD. This is very sophisticated and as the PR blurb says the only other car in the world that has a similar system is Ferrari.

The lack of a 6 speeder hardly ever surfaces. The car is very torquey and because of the low noise threshold you hardly notice it change gear. The tiptronic style changer is pretty irrelevant as well.

The AWD really comes into its own in the wet. you can corner at seriously scary speeds and it never feels as if it is going to lose it.

Having had it for a year I have no complaints at all. By the way my other car is a 2006 Aston DB9 that is fun for the weekend. During the week the Legend is perfect for work and I must admit I tend to drive it more and more at the weekend as well !