“Chris” was one of the rare, few people who took interest in the Vigor model when it was near-new. Last updates were posted in 2007 but by then the Vigor model was already 13 years old and a good chunk of the Vigor fanbase had likely moved on to the wildly successful new Acuras being offered on the showroom floor, like the crowd favorite 3rd generation 2004-2008 TL. In the decade since, the website has become a ghost town. Here is a (grainy, tiny, characteristic of those early days) photograph of a meet in Seattle in the early 2000s. In 2005, the website hit its peak with about 100,000 total hits, including one specific day in March that had over 900 views. More and more members began joining the community at, with “Timely Topics” monthly DIY tutorials being posted by contributors and with meets being organized in select regions. In January 1999, a “Yahoo!” group was founded for the Acura Vigor and Legend Club. The Acura Vigor Club was an online community started in 1998-1999, right around the time that I was spending my teenage years browsing (still alive for archive purposes) and (long gone). Consider the fact that there were more than ten times as many Legends sold as Vigors. While the Legend community has been able to support enough interest to host an annual meet every year since 2005, the Vigor club members held regional meets until about the early 2000’s and then the fire died out. The Vigor enthusiast network in general was just a lot smaller. This middle sibling was forever overshadowed by its larger, more popular, big brother the Legend. I shared some history about the model when I picked up my own Vigor last July in Denver. My friend Ryan made a snide remark about how little I will probably wear the shirt.īridging the gap between the Integra and the Legend, the Vigor split the difference between 4 and 6 cylinders with its 2.5-liter, 176-horsepower inline-five-cylinder motor. Several weeks ago I bought a new T-shirt on that says “Alive With Five.” It felt appropriate that I wear the shirt to a meet-up on Monday night with newfound friend Chris in Scottsdale, Arizona who happens to be an old-school Acura 5-cylinder fan just like me. Feast your eyes on some “BG-30P” code paint deliciousness! This here is a double-dose of a color that we all saw back in the 90’s that has long since been replaced by today’s boring silvers, grays, charcoals, and….
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