The Honda Accord has long been a vanilla car. It has never been offensive, but it's never been the topic of conversation. The new Accord sedan is no exception. Ah, but the coupe has caught my eye. The coupe has always been marginally better looking. Vanilla, but with sprinkles. This time around, it gets all the toppings.
The new Honda Accord coupe finally looks like a coupe, rather than a sedan with less headroom in the back seat. The body sits in a forward rake, with accentuated character lines lifting the back of the car. All of the lines lead your eyes to the back, which is the best angle to view the car from. Too often is the rear neglected in the design process. The wheels fill out the wheel wells appropriately and proportionately. Finally, I like how the headlights aggressively wrap around onto the front quarter panels without appearing too big and without housing an offensive amount of chrome.
The only thing that misses, is the front grille. Honda could have looked only as far as their own luxury brand and brought in a resemblance to the Acura TL front grille to make the new Accord really come together. Even without a nice smile, the Honda Accord coupe steps up along side the Infinity G35 coupe and Nissan Altima coupe as a tasty two door sports sedan.
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Nice writing! So very descriptive even a "non car" person like me enjoyed reading it!
I tend to agree, this is the best Honda has done with this car. Many times I thought of it a glorified Civic. I also like their interior, very luxurious as shown here.
Good job.
Have you been following the new cars coming from Europe with the small engines like Alfa. I'm not talking the 8C either. These are 90 hps. It, due to the economy and cost of fuel, is a throw back to the days when VW, MG, Fiat etc. came over and no one paid attention to them. I'll send you some info. M Benz is small and somewhat weird but that is where some are headed.
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