All Honda Accord reviews

"Control freaks may not like it, but everybody else will agree that this ADAS technology is hugely impressive"

It's vaguely unsettling at first. Relax your hands on the wheel of Honda's ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) equipped Accord at motorway speeds and you'll feel the car taking over. The steering nudges the car into the centre of its lane all by itself while the accelerator modulates itself, keeping a respectable distance between you and the car in font. It may not drive i...

"Without a diesel, you're without a prayer when it comes to shifting volumes in the profitable compact prestige estate sector?"

Lifestyle-orientated buyers may value style over substance but that doesn't mean that they're blind to everyday economics. Hence the fact that the majority of sales of cars like Audi's A4 Avant and BMW's 3 Series Touring are of diesel models.

Without a diesel, you're without a prayer when it comes to shifting volumes in the profitable compact prestige est...

"When it comes to producing a very clever diesel engine, they've managed to muscle in among the front rankers with very little bother."

Hindsight's a fantastic thing. Looking back, Honda's decision to ignore the fledgling diesel market and instead concentrate on petrol engines with intelligent valve timing systems must have been one of the costlier management decisions in recent automotive history. Maybe it wasn't up there with BMW thinking Rover looked a sound bet but it's not far shor...

"The Accord looks straight-laced but beneath the sober suit is a veritable riot of technology"

Never let it be said that Honda is a company that sticks to the predictable. Nobody saw their NSX supercar coming, we didn't expect the S2000 to feature a normally-aspirated 240bhp engine and the faces on rival executives were an absolute picture when the wraps came off the latest Civic. It's tough to know where to go in the Honda range for something of the conventional. The FR-V features two ...

"'Life' and 'Style' don't have to be incompatible?"

Honda's Accord Tourer. That name gives it away doesn't it? You would expect this to be one of those compromised' lifestyle' compact executive estates, a car with little more room to offer than your average family hatchback. Well, 'lifestyle' it is, but 'compromised' it isn't.

It was about time someone came up with a car like this one. Surely it couldn't be beyond the wit of the average auto designer to create something that's bot...

Sitting here racking my brain, it's difficult to come up with one car that's metamorphosed so radically over its lifespan than the Honda Accord. Originally an unprepossessing little hatch, it's now a car that wants to be taken seriously against some heavyweight competitors. The sixth generation Accord is a car that feels massively more substantial than any previous iteration and represents the finest Japanese family saloon we've yet seen. Used examples are starting to appear in meaningful num...

Sitting here racking my brain, it's difficult to come up with one car that's metamorphosed so radically over its lifespan than the Honda Accord. Originally an unprepossessing little hatch, it's now a car that wants to be taken seriously against some heavyweight competitors. The sixth generation Accord is a car that feels massively more substantial than any previous iteration and represents the finest Japanese family saloon we've yet seen. Used examples are starting to appear in meaningful num...