April 1: Hey Honda, get with it!

The new Honda suv..........

April Fool's! Don't we all wish, that we could have woken up this morning and found that the past two or three months were nothing but a cruel joke and that everything could return to normal? If only life were like that. In reality though, the picture above of the old Honda Crosstour is kind of a joke. Pictures don't do this warthog (with apologies to warthogs) justice, as it was much uglier than it appears here. Seen one lately? Did you see one when they were fresh on the market about ten years ago? Nope and there in lies today's blog.

Yeah, we all know that the rage today, that has spread faster than COVID-19, is our love of the suv. And thanks to BMW's strange looking X6, the fastback suv is the new sub category, that everyone is rushing to participate in. Some successfully. Some not. Honda was early into this game with what should have been a winner. A winner if Honda's designers had made it look less like an overweight and overblown sedan. The Donald Trump of suvs?

Time to step up again Honda. Once bitten, twice shy? Maybe, but looking across the Pacific, we find that Honda has an ideal candidate to once again enter this category, the Avancier........

The recipe?  Take one CR-V and slant the back enough to wow all those looking for an suv, but think that the sloping back end actually puts the sport in suv.

Not bad looking and easy to do. Place it between the CR-V and the Pilot. Sell them like hotcakes or in this case, suvs. Make tons of profit. All Honda needs to do to get the Avancier over here, is to put some North American shipping labels on this crossover, which has been selling in China for the past three years. Easy.

Make it look a bit more upscale inside and folks will forget that they bought it from a Honda dealership. Although with Honda's great reputation, would anyone really worry about that?

What do you say, Honda? Afraid to take a chance? Not a gambler? Hey, get with the current trends and you know this design works. People love your products, so step up and give them what they increasingly want.

You're welcome.

Until next time and stay safe..........