2024 Honda Accord: Safer Styling, Powertrains And The whole lot Else We Know About The Midsize Sedan

This story consists of impartial illustrations made by CarScoops’ artist Josh Byrnes based mostly on Honda’s official patent purposes 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 all the things, 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 photos, however what else can we anticipate from Honda’s subsequent huge guess? Let’s take an illustrative first look.

A Safer Assertion

A few notes at first look: most of the onerous factors from the earlier Accord carry over, so the proportions and roofline will likely 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 course, however this restraint can be evident within the new Civic and CR-V.

Key particulars? Nicely, 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’s 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 anticipated to get a restrained redesign that can undertake an analogous 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 function 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 will likely be supplied, together with driver-attention monitor, site visitors signal recognition, encompass view monitor, adaptive cruise management, and lane-keeping help.

Amped Help

With gasoline costs heading skywards and the price of filling a automobile requiring a private mortgage, Accord consumers will likely be happy that hybridization will function within the vary.

Probably 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 seemingly 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 consists of 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 top of 2022 or early subsequent yr as a 2024 mannequin, although it’s additionally potential that Honda could promote it as a 2023MY.

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