Acura Legend -- How costly is it to own one?

[Jesda]

When I see Legends come through the auction, they looked thrashed. The leather is always badly cracked and heavily worn and supposedly these cars are known for head gasket issues.

Does the engine have to come out to remove the heads on a 2G Legend?


I also found this rolling time capsule with just 78,000 miles:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1995-ACU ... 517wt_1167

Too bad it isn't a coupe!

[NolimitZ32]

I've been in love with these since I was 14, I always wanted one but certain things would always steer me away when I got older (mainly the lack of manual trans).

[frapjap]

A woman I used to work with was donated (through her church) an Acura Legend coupe with a 5 speed. Interior was pretty beat, but the engine ran great. I think it was a '92 or something.

[krash]

SOMEone had a car phone

So these were front-wheel-drive with and engine facing the right way? Whats the advantage of that?

[Kompresshun]

I know very little about them, but our realtors(husband and wife) have matching ones. They've been driving them for at least the 4 years we've known them and they still look fairly good. I've never heard them complain about reliability either.

I personally have always liked the styling of them, but it seems so wrong for them to be a FWD layout and I think that's why i've always steered clear of them.

[gwoods]

strange to be FWD with the engine facing the right way. That car you found is in amazing condition if your planning to buy one you should buy THAT one. One of my buddys in highschool got his dads when he was done with it. The car was really used up, I had a Caprice that was also really used up. We normally rode in my car because the AC worked.

[Jesda]

strange to be FWD with the engine facing the right way. That car you found is in amazing condition if your planning to buy one you should buy THAT one. One of my buddys in highschool got his dads when he was done with it. The car was really used up, I had a Caprice that was also really used up. We normally rode in my car because the AC worked.

If it was a 5-speed coupe I'd put an offer in.

[Bubba1]

If it was a 5-speed coupe I'd put an offer in.

I always preferred the coupe version too. Was a pleasant cruiser in its day.

[Jesda]

Is Honda-Acura.net still the go-to place for information? Have all the F&F kids grown up and moved out yet?

[Ace2cool]

Or Hondatech.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I'm going to be the jerk who pops in and says that he never saw what everyone loves about the Legend. It always seemed a little fat, a little goofy-looking, and a lot wrong-wheel drive. If I was going to get a classic Acura (what a weird combination words...we are getting old, aren't we?) I'd get a Vigor. Smaller, leaner, far more nicely proportioned, and with a torquey (for a Honda) 5 cylinder just to keep things quirky. They both have the irritating wraparound backlight and matching c-pillar, though. Kills the sillhouette.

So these were front-wheel-drive with and engine facing the right way? Whats the advantage of that?

Probably packaging. Transverse V6 setups tend to be wide (look at the 3000GT). Putting the transaxle behind the engine keeps the engine bay packaging narrower without necessitating the more expensive platform-design concessions that come with RWD (and which are the REAL reson FWD is so popular these days).

Lots of Audis are the same way. Longitudinal engine but FWD. Usually it's the bigger cars with bulkier engines. Though GM never saw the need to go longitudinal with the Northstar in FWD cars. But then they were WIDE cars from the start.

[Ace2cool]

My buddy had an Audi Coupe GT. I thought it was RWD will we had it on the lift. 5 cylinder longitudinal.