What makes the Honda buyers SO brand loyal?

[87 Turbo II]

Well I can see all the points. I'm surprised nobody asked me if I was a Mazda loyal myself. It's even more narrow. My previous car was a rotary and my next car will most likely be one as well. My reasoning is because it is different, and I know a lot about the engine. I am not trying to be hypocritical but I just love my rotary, and I wanted to know the Honda end of that spectrum. A lot of good answers, but along with what JITB says, a lot of the things can be said about MANY cars, maybe it wouldn't hurt a great number of us here to buy something different next time around, including myself. To the person who said they've never understood the RWD craze, it is not JUST being able to kick the tail out, it's the fact that on a FWD car the front wheels have to do the accelerating, the braking, and the turning, by giving power to the rear wheels, you take a task off of the front wheels and give it less strain, also overpowered FWD cars suffer from torque steer. All in all it seems Honda is doing something definitely right.

[ash7]

To the person who said they've never understood the RWD craze, it is not JUST being able to kick the tail out, it's the fact that on a FWD car the front wheels have to do the accelerating, the braking, and the turning, by giving power to the rear wheels, you take a task off of the front wheels and give it less strain, also overpowered FWD cars suffer from torque steer. All in all it seems Honda is doing something definitely right.

RWD cars have a slightly greater control capacity than FWD cars, but are not as nimble in the easy corners, or as easy to recover from a mistake.

RWD cars also can have issues when provided with "too much" power - for instance, the tail sliding out in a corner and providing instant oversteer.

Here again, such as we did with brand loyalty - we run into the same issue of driver preference; and what they're more prepared to deal with.

-jonathan