A couple of those showed up in my hypothetical search for a DD-ish car that her indoors can also drive (pretty much everything else that we/I like is manual only). I was surprised to find that the second generation of these came with AWD and Edmunds.com seems to be reasonably impressed with them.
Obviously they're not an Evo/WRX or Mazdaspeed6 competitor but OTOH they're a Honda so there is a good chance that they work as intended and are durable, which is probably good enough for us right now.
Parts are very, and I mean VERY expensive. Side mirror, $700. Rear view mirror $800. Brake pads (Brembo) $200
Pretty much nobody bought them, I know that much.
There's actually a reasonable number of them for sale around here but the spares prices are a little Yowza.
Nobody bought them because they were 57k new. Lol.
RL has a ton of technology in it. Those parts get expensive quick. They are however very reliable cars. Just be advised that any fix will not be cheap. They were $60,00 new, and the parts are priced that way. They come with the maintenance minder system. If you do your own oil and stuff, it makes it real easy. Tells you when you need oil/filter, air filters, trans service, rear diff service, timing belt/water pump, and coolant service. It sets the intervals completely off your driving style too. Do a bunch of hard city driving, the oil intervals go down to 4,000-5000 miles. Nothing but highway, intervals go up to 6-7-8,000. My car, I do nothing buy highway and my intervals go all the way up to 10,000 or so miles between oil changes
So. If you buy one used, make SURE everything electrical works.
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