At $13,000, Is This Low-mileage 1992 Acura Legend A Historic Deal?

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The seller of today's Nice Price aliases No Dice Acura Legend claims to person only driven it erstwhile nan upwind extracurricular was nice. As a result, it only has 86K connected nan clock. Let's find retired if this babied sedan tin still thrust a difficult bargain. 

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Hey, are you each excited astir nan weekend? I don't mean 'The Weekend,' though I deliberation 'Timeless' disconnected of 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' does slap. Come to deliberation of it, that might, successful fact, make for a coagulated group disconnected opus for a Friday nighttime cruise aliases play day-trip. The mobility is, would you want to do that successful a sports car aliases a luxury saloon?

According to nan ad, nan proprietor of today's 1992 Acura Legend L has been doing conscionable that, driving it connected nan weekends while keeping it safe from nan dangers of workweek unreserved hr traffic, tucked nether a screen successful nan garage. And for illustration schoolhouse kids, it stays successful connected snowfall days. The seller says it besides has ne'er seen rain, truthful its wipers person been wildly underutilized.

This benignant of dedicated driving schedule intends that nan Acura has only accumulated a specified 86,000 miles complete its 33 years. That's an mean of astir 2,600 miles each year, aliases astir 50 miles each weekend.

Sterling condition

The consequence of that observant curation of usage has resulted successful a car that, while 3 decades old, looks for each intents and purposes for illustration caller successful nan ad's pictures. That advertisement besides claims nan car's colour to beryllium 'custom,' though it looks for illustration a modular Rosewood Brown metallic, a colour that was celebrated connected some nan Acura and modern Honda Accord astatine nan time. Based connected nan pictures, nan bodywork is cleanable and free of immoderate noticeable dings, dents aliases nonaccomplishment of nan apical coat. That each rides connected alloys from a Vigor GS, which look for illustration they've been kept good distant from curbs. The car's original 15-inch wheels are shown successful nan advertisement and will travel pinch nan car.

In nan cabin, things are conscionable arsenic nice. This is nan middle-of-the-pack L model, truthful it's nicely equipped, but not rather arsenic fancy-pants arsenic nan top-of-the-line LS edition. Still, location are leather seating surfaces, powerfulness windows and locks, and a moonroof. There's besides nan accepted Honda build value and worldly choices that make these cars consciousness special.

One basking commodity

A downside of nan car is nan ambiance control, arsenic nan seller notes that nan A/C is nan fritz. They declare to person been told that it would costs astir $600 to fix, but you know, if that were nan case, they would person conscionable gotten it fixed earlier trying to waste nan car. It is summer, aft all, which makes moving A/C a important positive erstwhile trying to move nan metal, arsenic they say.

Everything other connected nan car is said to beryllium working, pinch nan seller claiming it to "drive for illustration new." Power is provided by a 3.2-liter alloy SOHC V6 that, erstwhile new, made 200 horsepower on pinch 210 pound-feet of torque. That's not a batch by modern standards, but it's capable to move nan large sedan acceptably. Interestingly, nan motor successful this procreation Legend is mounted longitudinally, for illustration nan five-pot successful nan modern Vigor, and not transversely for illustration nan centrifugal successful nan first-generation cars. The succeeding RL kept this layout for its first generation, but switched to transverse engines successful its follow-up. Behind nan motor is simply a four-speed automatic shifted via a console-mounted lever. No proviso is made connected these '90s cars for immoderate manual-shifting monkey business.

A reliable sell?

According to nan seller, who has owned this Acura for a claimed 30 years, it's reliable for them to portion pinch nan car. They opportunity that they want to waste it to personification who will admit it arsenic overmuch arsenic they have, but they don't springiness a logic for why it has to go. It does person a cleanable title and a Carfax study indicating it to beryllium accident-free and having ne'er been successful request of important repairs. That raises nan question, though, of nan car's attraction schedule, specifically whether age-related items, specified arsenic nan timing belt, person been replaced contempt not rather gathering nan mileage requirements.

That's to beryllium hashed retired betwixt prospective buyers and nan seller, but earlier they tin get to that, we person to get to this Legend's $13,000 asking price. The seller asks for offers, but has group that value arsenic their starting point.

What do you deliberation astir that and this Acura's clip capsule-like appearance? Does that look for illustration a bully woody connected a luxury play cruiser? Or does that make this Legend a loser?

You decide!

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