Vehicle Description
West Coast Classics are proud to present an exceptional find of an
original southern California 1991 Acura Legend L 3.2L V6 2 Door
Hardtop Coupe with only 64K original miles and with a desirable 5
speed manual transmission and always primarily serviced at the
Acura dealership of Cerritos, CA and still boasting its original
'Golden Glow Pearl' color paint and Tan leather interior!The Acura
Legend was a mid-size luxury/executive car manufactured by Honda.
It was sold in the U.S., Canada, and parts of China under Honda's
luxury brand, Acura, from 1985 to 1995, as both a sedan, which was
classified as a full-size car, and a coupe, which was classified as
a mid-size car (similar to how the Honda Accord is set up today).
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 the
North American version of the KA9 series Honda Legend. The Legend
won 'Car and Driver's' Ten Best three years in a row and Motor
Trend's Import Car of the Year for 1987. Manual-equipped models had
impressive acceleration from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in under 8 seconds
and reach a top speed of 135 mph (217 km/h).The opportunity for
Japanese manufacturers to export more expensive models had arisen
with the 1980s voluntary export restraints, negotiated by the
Japanese government and U.S. trade representatives, restricting
mainstream car sales. The initial success of the Legend and Honda's
Acura division in competing against established European and
American luxury manufacturers would lead to Toyota and Nissan
creating the Lexus and Infiniti brands, respectively, to compete in
the luxury car market.The second and final generation Legend
(1990-95) was a larger and more streamlined-looking car. The design
was referred to as a 'fuselage' shape, and had rear-wheel drive
proportions which were possible thanks to the use of a
longitudinally mounted engine; unusual for front-wheel-drive
automobiles. The Legend offered a host of features seen on luxury
cars of today including dual front driver amp; passenger airbags,
speed-sensitive steering, hands-free telephone, automatic climate
control, heated leather seats, heated mirrors, four-wheel ABS disc
brakes, seatbelt pretensioners, and electric soft-close doors
(coupe only). The rear end appearance of the sedan was adopted from
the first generation Legend coupe 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.The Legend was a very successful
vehicle and launched Acura as a separate division, and combined
with sales of the Integra, this resulted in Acura remarkably
outselling longtime luxury marques BMW and Mercedes-Benz as well as
Toyota's new luxury division Lexus.This is a very nice example,
with an extraordinarily low 64K original miles, quite remarkable
for these usually well driven and high mileage cars, owned since
new by only two southern California owners, the car has always been
primarily serviced at the Acura dealership and obviously always
garaged with no accidents and no rust and has a clean CARFAX report
and boasts its original spare wheel, jack and tools and owner's
manuals.The car has very nice original 'Golden Glow Pearl' color
paint and the car has it's original factory Tan leather interior
which is also in remarkably good condition throughout. The 3.2L V6
engine is extremely strong and powerful and the transmission shifts
smoothly through all the gears. There are only some very minor
imperfections in the paint and this extremely low mileage and
dealer maintained example with the 5 speed manual transmission
would make a great daily driving sporty coupe for anyone!You will
look long and hard to finer example with such extraordinarily low
original miles and always having been serviced since new primarily
only at the Acura dealership anywhere else!