**All new Accord**

[alex_gt]

Update..:clock:

And here's the estate version, thoughts everyone?

HONDA 'FLICK'

Honda are a tad excited about the new Accord Estate. It's got a tailgate that you can open and close at the press of a button. Perfect for knocking over passers by as you sup a pint in the beer garden.

A folding seat and an opening tailgate aren't much to get excited about normally. Not true According to Honda. They're dancing around like frogs on a griddle currently with the news that their new Accord Tourer will feature a 'world-first', 'one-motion' fold flat rear seat and a power tailgate that can be fully opened and closed at the press of a button.

Apparently their 60:40 split rear seats offer a further quantum leap forward in terms of everyday, easy-to-use practicality. Pull the seat back lever and the head restraints flip forward as the seat base rises into a vertical position. The seat back then folds totally flat, in one simple movement, with the seat integrated seatbelts ensuring minimum inconvenience. It's neat but calm your excitement Honday, it's no Nobel prize winner.

Having dealt with the load floor, Honda’s next design innovation was an power-operated tailgate. Targeted at retired majors who barely have the will to live let alone lift a tailgate, the system is operated by the key fob or via a switch on the lower edge of the tailgate. It will be particularly handy when legging it across a rainy supermarket car park or perhaps for ram raids?

The new Accord Tourer will go on sale first in Japan this autumn (as the Accord Wagon) and will be available in Britain from the spring of 2003.

 

[alex_gt]

ANd the rear.. :spin:

 

[Duke]

That's fugly! And this is speaking as someone who liked the looks of the mid-90s Accord wagon.

Is it an Odyssey that got squished by the garage door? Is it the new Decepticon transformer? Is it an oversized and blatant ripoff of the Toyota Matrix?

It's all three!

 

[Hooligan]

Yeah, about that estate...um, I'm gonna have to say that it sucks. Yeah, definitely...it sucks...hmmm....

All kidding aside, I think this is the first time Honda has made bland and flavorless actually offensive. It really looks like a poor interpretation of the recent German Uber-wagens, right down to the twin exhaust. Not orginal in overall shape, and a totally inappropriate item onto which to carry the sedan Accord details (lights, etc.). I'll take an Audi Allroad anyday (okay, fine; I'm a big Audi fan, so a Volvo X-Country will do just as well, as long as it isn't this POS).

 

[1X83Z]

Saw one today.

As you all know, I absolutely hate Honda, but I must say that NSX aside, this is the best designed Honda I can think of - one of the better designed sedans in recent memory.

Congrats, Honda!

 

[alex_gt]

Wow it almost looks like :honda: have made a car that some of us like whilst others hate?

Well I've gotta say the sharper looks are an improvement on the old model?

 

[f1king]

I dont like the new honda.

 

[duo17]

Originally posted by neon_duke
That's fugly! And this is speaking as someone who liked the looks of the mid-90s Accord wagon.

Is it an Odyssey that got squished by the garage door? Is it the new Decepticon transformer? Is it an oversized and blatant ripoff of the Toyota Matrix?

It's all three!

Don't EVER insult the decepticon transformers....

That car does look like somethink extremely wrong happened when they designed it. They must have been high, but whatever happened, they rethink what they make before they make it.

 

[Race Idiot]

Comeon its a honda accord!
Only old people drive honda accords (well in the UK they do), to me it just looks like they have blown up the Acura RSX.

It sucks

Hard