"How ridiculous" was what I thought when reading this news. Sure that's a great idea to want to rival the absolute luxury marques of the auto industry, but the way things have been going for Acura, it's NOT going to happen.
This somewhat misguided statement was made by the Acura Division of Honda which we all know are nothing but marketing and sales specialists for luxury Honda Products here in the States, Australia and parts of Asia. I haven't seen any noteworthy contributions they've made to any of the actual products themselves. Their most significant creation was the ASCC which is clearly a disaster. Acura only sells three sedans and two SUV's as well. How pathetic is that? I do agree with the fact that they feel Honda must adopt V8 rear wheel drive platforms to be taken seriously, but other than that I think Honda and Acura clearly LACK a singular and cohesive vision for their products.