My friend stumbled upon something interesting while trying to hack an ILX, the car doesn’t even come standard with Apple CarPlay. I don’t know how Acura plans to grow market share while selling the previous generation Civic without even standard CarPlay (which is free on the Civic)
Thought it’d be interesting to discuss the future of brands like Acura and Infiniti. Great to hack, but what’s the point of these brands other than that
Maybe they think they’re tesla
Perhaps there are plenty of consumers who have different tastes and priorities than yours. 
Not everyone cares. I certainly don’t.
While not everyone might care, I do assume the majority does, as it is standard in most vehicles. If its in the civic and not the ILX, makes you think of the value proposition.
If we ignore carplay as a specific feature, it does seem like selling what is essentially now a two generation old civic in drag is not a path towards long term success.
Then buy the Civic. Acura isn’t a value brand.
This argument comes up all then time….Bread and butter brand has standard x, and you have to pay for it in a (insert brand here). If it’s that important to you, buy the car that has it. The premium/luxury space has people willing to pay for it, or they’d offer it for “free.”
You’re paying for it one way or another…it’s just baked into the sticker price and not a separate line item anyways.
Now this I can agree with
You aren’t wrong and what is said above about the ILX being a 2 generation old civic I think is a bigger issue than the no carplay. Just from that fact I would say thank you next unless they were somehow going for $199 a month and even then rather have the new civic.
i was doing them for 225 about 2 months ago. ilxs are cheaper than civics.
Cheaper then the new civic or last years? Thats pretty wild…“Premium sedan”
it’s standard in the premium package. there’s no reason to get a base ilx, i dont think.
Premium package adds those features plus a bunch of other must have’s. It adds $2000 to the price, but makes it a viable car
Was scrolling through some ilx’s on cars.com yesterday because I was curious what the current interior looked like (been awhile since I even thought about an ilx) - was surprised that it was still basically the same interior from 2013 with the two screen setup, then thought about it for a min and was not surprised…
Are you aware that a majority of people do not have iPhones?
Weirdly the website seems to show it is standard… but then it’s not listed for the base car under specs. So I dunno.
You’re in the minority. Any sane person would realize CarPlay should be standard on new cars at that price point.
Usually carplay means android auto as well, so covers almost everyone
CarPlay never means Android Auto. Not sure where you read that.
I think those bringing up the point that many customers don’t care about CarPlay are definitely missing this. (Also, I think most customers do care about CarPlay/Android Auto. It’s such an obviously useful feature) But regardless, as you said, lack of CarPlay to me is more of a symptom of selling an old car with a lack of investment in modern tech than anything else. To me, the problem is definitely as you said more about the fact that their selling an old vehicle that other than maybe being hackable for a cheap lease, is completely washed out by all of its competitors.
I have an iPhone, one car with CarPlay, and one without CarPlay.
The car with CarPlay… never use CarPlay.
The car without CarPlay… I could add it for $300, but it’s worth less to me than a used clarinet.
