This story contains impartial illustrations made by CarScoops’ artist Josh Byrnes primarily based on Honda’s official patent functions in addition to our personal intel. The renders are neither associated to nor endorsed by Honda.
In a world the place crossovers and SUVs are dominating something and every part, it’s heart-warming that some sedans are nonetheless related. In Honda’s case, the long-serving Accord is about to enter its eleventh technology, assuaging fears that the Grim Reaper will take a samurai sword to the Japanese mid-sizer.
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We’ve been lucky to have seen the spy pictures and leaked patent photographs, however what else can we count on from Honda’s subsequent massive guess? Let’s take an illustrative first look.
A Safer Assertion
A few notes at first look: lots of the onerous factors from the earlier Accord carry over, so the proportions and roofline shall be déjà vu for eager observers. The opposite is that it’s visually restrained in comparison with its flamboyant predecessor. Blame Honda’s new design path, however this restraint can also be evident within the new Civic and CR-V.
Key particulars? Effectively, the entrance options slimmer LED headlamps and a trapezoidal grille which, to many eyes, exudes greater than a touch of Ford’s dearly departed Taurus. Elsewhere, there may be fuss-free sheet steel surfacing, a fastback silhouette and a full-width LED taillamp cluster. The trunk lid has a delicate lip, and the exhaust seems hidden behind the decrease bumper.
Cockpit Comforts
Like the outside, the inside is predicted to get a restrained redesign that can undertake an identical styling to Honda’s most up-to-date fashions like the 2023 CR-V pictured above and the Civic, each of which sport a honeycomb cowl for the expanded air vents and a big touchscreen sitting on prime of the dashboard.
Greater high quality supplies and improved expertise will characteristic all through. Count on solely minor enhancements to occupant house, because the Accord rides upon the identical structure because the earlier technology.
Cabin highlights embrace a digital instrument cluster, a 9-inch touchscreen show with wi-fi Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, wi-fi smartphone charging and a Bose sound system. A full suite of driver-assistance options shall be provided, together with driver-attention monitor, visitors signal recognition, encompass view monitor, adaptive cruise management, and lane-keeping help.
Amped Help
With gas costs heading skywards and the price of filling a automobile requiring a private mortgage, Accord patrons shall be happy that hybridization will characteristic within the vary.
Possible shared with the all-new CR-V, the gasoline-electric setup ought to make use of a 2.0-litre inline-four paired with two electrical motors – one for propulsion and the opposite for regeneration. Whereas the system produces a mixed 204 hp (152kW) and 247 lb-ft of torque, sending energy to the entrance wheels, we may see the Accord getting a barely extra highly effective model.
Different powertrain choices will probably embrace a carryover turbocharged 1.5-litre, albeit revised producing over 190 hp, and a turbo 2.0-litre four-cylinder mated to a 10-speed computerized transmission with no less than 252 hp.
Rivals & Reveal
The Accord’s core competitor set contains Toyota’s top-selling Camry, Nissan Altima, and Hyundai’s love-or-hate Sonata.
An official reveal date has but to be introduced; nonetheless, the chances are that it’s going to debut both proper earlier than the tip of 2022 or early subsequent 12 months as a 2024 mannequin, although it’s additionally attainable that Honda might promote it as a 2023MY.
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