Comments on: 2008 Honda Accord review

By: Neo Utopia

Neo Utopia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:27:44 +0000

I’d have the Euro over this!

By: AW

AW — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:09:14 +0000

Mine just arrived on Friday. What a car. It is superb. I will never buy another Holden or Ford again. This car is amazing, so much so in fact, that I doubt I will want to sell it. I enjoy it more than more relatives BMW’s and Merc’s.

By: John

John — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:24:58 +0000

I test drove the new Accord and was really impressed with the quiteness and response. The leather interior and controls are more reflective of a BMW or Merc. I ordered one in black with a sports grille and ductail spoiler. The only option missing are 18″ rims.
Great value for money!

By: AW

AW — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:39:40 +0000

I have just ordered one of these. In polished metal (name of colour, aka grey) with black leather. Should be here in a couple of weeks. Can’t wait!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:00:57 +0000

I have to say… the current model looks really nice. It seems like the Euro became uglier, yet the Accord became rather well proportioned and handsome.

Actually, a lot of the new designs from most manufacturers since the mid 2000s have been looking really good. The early 2000’s spawned a lot of bland and boring looking designs.

By: No Name

No Name — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:05:40 +0000

Whilst I understand cylinder deactivation all it really means is you’ve bought a car with too bigga engine and you don;t really need all the power there is. Most of the time cars are used for commuting in cities where most of the time they won’t, like their owners, be firing on all cylinders. Ha Ha. yes I know the nobbers will be saying “on occasions I need all that power”, bollox I say.

By: Fenno

Fenno — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:51:57 +0000

On page two the close-up of the ‘crease’ shows a mis-alignment in the panels. This must be the Thai build quality at it’s best.
Sorry, but its a Sonata.
Seems like Honda might be going through what Mazda did in the 90’s and “plain-up” the styling on their vehicles just to maintain sales.
Buy the Euro. Better car by a long way.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:40:31 +0000

The grill is far to ’strong’ or ‘tough’ looking. It would be better suited on a pick-up. Why do Honda have to make there cars ugly now? they were doing so well.

By: Duck

Duck — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:06:40 +0000

It’s not ugly but the rear is what let’s it down.

But I agree the interior is to complex, even to look at it!

I read in one of the Wheels Mags Honda want to compete with the Holden Commodore and Falcon due to it’s bigger size. (With the V6).

By: laurie

laurie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:25:29 +0000

What’s the cost of service make sure you are sitting down when you do find out

laurie

By: oneill3

oneill3 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:16:33 +0000

When I first saw one I thought it was a C Class and after having a better look, it looks like a cross between a 3 series and C Class.

By: Reckless1

Reckless1 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:47:22 +0000

A V6 which develops maximum torque at a heady 5000rpm is going to slurp fuel dramatically if you ever use those revs, at which time the cyl de-activation would not be deployed.

Power and torque figures are no better than a respectable 2.0l turbo engine, which develops max torque from 1800-5000rpm and max power at 5000rpm.

The reason a car such as this is firm over speed humps and wallows around corners would most likely be down to thin anti-roll bars.

Generally the car has little overall appeal.

By: Mitchell Oke

Mitchell Oke — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:41:29 +0000

Agree with everyone above who mentioned Hyundai, that was my first thought when I saw it.

And was the septic tank remark really necessary?

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:08:37 +0000

No Name I’m in London and Oxford. I saw one on the road today (im in oz right now) and actually, people are right. It does look like the next gen sonata. Quite cheap looking really. Although I’d still prefer one over one of your commodores or falcons. They are sooooo boring looking. Its funny how people complain about space saver spare wheels but then complain about boot space with a full size. Oh well. Guess I just dont like any of the new Accords. I wish that cylinder deactivation thing would make it into more cars because ive got a friend in London with an Audi R8 and he drives it to work every day but he probably only need like 2 of the 8 cylinders to crawl through central London. And my Range Rover is HORRIBLE in London. Cant wait for the Smart Diesels to come next year. :)

By: Joober

Joober — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:18:14 +0000

Agree, pictures don’t do any justice, looks much more better in real life. Although its not something to go whoa at, it looks solid.

I agree with AW, family friend has one, sat in it for a test drive, whilst checking out the interior and was great, superb interior build as I would expect from Honda. Nothing Holden/Ford/Toyota could match.

Realcars, I wouldnt assume they would stop the pistons… It may be more problematic if they did with more variable mechanical parts.

By: riceboy

riceboy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:07:28 +0000

I was a real fan of the previous Accord Euro, but the new Euro went supersized! Now you can barely tell the difference between Accord and Euro… I gave up and bought a fully spec’d up VW Golf GTI instead…

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:27:06 +0000

I thought the previous model Accord was pretty good looking, but to be honest this new one looks too overdone. The swage line running through the doors and the bangle butt rear, simply just hasn’t worked for me. I was looking at the car at the Honda dealer last week, and wasn’t really impressed. But to each his own I guess…

By: realcars

realcars — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:10:02 +0000

Think there is about 8-10k in it?

By: TP

TP — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:05:48 +0000

Not great looking…. but far better then previous model. Dont know about Honda pricing, maybe Im wrong but the V6 and Accord Euro wit ha 4cylinder seemed to priced against each other.

By: AC COBRA

AC COBRA — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:39:10 +0000

Honda might be rebadging Hyundia, Sonata carbon copy, I agree No Name, a pretty dull effort from Honda, they are starting to gain styling ideas from that bland boring fridge company called Toyoda..

I would never buy a Honda mainly because the drive is not inspired just like many other Japan manufactured cars at the moment, give me European or Australian made anyday, thanks Honda for giving us another boring product..