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Car of the Day: April 5, 2013; Tins Toys '91 Acura Legend
Topic Started: Apr 4 2013, 11:25 PM (1,219 Views)
Dean-o-mite
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Today's car taxicab of the day is Tins Toys' 1991 Acura Legend Sedan.


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The Acura Legend is a luxury car manufactured by Honda sold in the U.S., Canada, and parts of China, under Honda's luxury brand, Acura from 1986 to 1995 as both a sedan and coupe. It was the first flagship sedan sold under the Acura nameplate, until being renamed in 1996 as the Acura 3.5RL. The 3.5RL was North American version of the KA9 series Honda Legend.



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So is it an Acura? Or a Honda? Or a Daewoo? Because Tins Toys has not positively identified this sedan, it could be any of the three. The Acura Legend, Honda Legend, and Daewoo Arcadia are all the same car, in appearances. Tins Toys has made two other sedans in this series: a Daewoo Prince, and a Daewoo Brougham. A reasonable argument could be made that because the other two castings are Daewoos, that this would likely be the Daewoo Arcadia. But since Tins Toys hasn’t clarified which one it is, I get to pick, and I choose the one I am most familiar with: Acura Legend. Most of my Tins Toys sedans have opening doors and side mirrors, including two other Legends I have in Chicago Fire and New York Police liveries. This Hong Kong taxi version has sealed doors, and no mirrors. I do not know if the deletion of the features indicates this is a newer version, modified to save production cost, or if it was part of a budget line that ran in conjunction with the opening door versions.


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Second generation units became available October 24, 1990, now using a 200 hp SOHC engine mated to either a standard 5-speed manual or an optional 4-speed automatic. The second generation Legend was a larger, more streamlined-looking car (drag coefficients were actually higher at 0.34 for sedans and 0.32 for coupes). The Legend offered a host of features seen on luxury cars of today including speed-sensitive steering, hands-free telephone, automatic climate control, heated leather seats, heated mirrors, 4-wheel ABS disc brakes, seat belt pretensioners and soft-close vacuum-operated doors (coupes only). The rear end appearance of the sedan was adopted from the first generation Legend coupe, as the first generation sedans appearance was very similar to the first generation Subaru Legacy, and Honda also wanted to visually align the appearance of both the Legend coupe and sedan to the Acura NSX. The segment the Legend originally filled was now being served by the Acura Vigor which allowed the Legend to position itself more towards the rear drive Lexus LS and the Infiniti Q45 sedans. Honda decided not to upgrade the size of the engine to a V8 because it would have upstaged the Acura NSX which has a V6 that introduced Honda's VTEC technology.


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For 1991 and 1992 the Legend sedan was available in Base, L, and LS trims; the coupe remained available in L and LS through its entire run. The higher-end LS cars added climate control, a power 4-way passenger seat, burled walnut interior trim, and body colored side moldings. The tooling and intellectual property rights of the second generation Legend were licensed to Daewoo Motors of South Korea, where a clone of the Legend sedan, called the Daewoo Arcadia, was produced from 1993 to 2000. During this period, Honda also held a small stake in Daewoo Motors.



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pjedsel
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Nice taxi. I am still trying to find the NY police version and Chicago fire version of this one.
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craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

It might be a budget line issue but it has plastic inserts for the front and rear lights. The paint job isn't too fabulous . . . looks like a rattle can job that I would do for a derby car.
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These are very unique, as my family is from HK and I see these everywhere. I've got a few of these, and in different colors as well. Tin's toys also did another sedan type of this taxi. I think I have a few lying around, but they're quite dented, but they have opening features!
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