Yes, after weeks of not posting on Clunkerture, I’ve decided to publish something. I agree that it’s probably not something interesting to much of the audience (if there even is one). But since people do come here to read things, it only makes sense to provide a review of yet more reading material (in this case a 400+ page book), in between the weeks it takes me to put up a new post on Clunkerture.
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Clunkerture Must Reads: Arrogance and Accords
It was by chance I came across Arrogance and Accords. At the time, almost any article on The Truth About Cars that had Honda/Acura news tended to reference Arrogance and Accords and the "Honda scandal." At the time, I had no idea what it was, and thought it couldn't be that bad for the company since Honda did phenomenally well throughout the 1980s and even the 1990s, when the domestic automakers were floundering. I was wrong. After reading this book, you'll learn a great deal about how relationships between auto manufacturers and dealers work, and how the crooked practices detailed affect Honda to this day.
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