Going to look at a 2010 model 2 litre petrol. £8000 40 odd k. Anyone had/have an Accord? Got a Civic at present.Any views on the Accord?
Thanks

 

Never had one as such but used to sell them. The 2.0 petrol accord is a big heavy car so don't expect strong performance. Economy will be average (25mpg town and up to 40 mpg on a run). However very well built and very quiet/comfortable, if the price is good then why not

 

£8K for a boring 5/6 year old car sounds quite rich to me. I had one for a while about seven years ago - may have been the same model - and it was dull as ditchwater.

 

The diesel is very good. I had one as a company car for several years, and not much covers the miles as effortlessly and economically if you are contractually obliged to do so.

Having said that, it's an old car now, and others have overtaken it in terms of driveability, economy and comfort.

I would avoid the petrol models. They're thirsty, and there are far, far better places for putting £8k of your own money.

 

Accord owners love them, so they must know something the rest of us don't.

Neither SH-AWD nor 4WS; ergo fail. Get one of those clown-Jaguars with at least has 4WD instead.

 

Thanks. I've heard the petrol model is thirsty and dull. Perhaps I'm better off keeping the Civic which, no matter what anyone else says, has a good 1.8 vtec engine, despite the poor rear visibility and absence of rear wipers. I just felt like a change.My Civic has 18 inch wheels on it as when I bought it which makes for a hard ride. The S absorbs bumps better.

 

The R18 is about the most miserable & depressing engine Honda has yet made! Try a K20...

 

Strange that, I think the 1.8 engine in the civic is an absolute masterclass of an engine, very smooth, very revvy, powerful for it's size and economical too. In the current generation civic Honda have managed to strangle it to a degree where it feels pathetic, but in the 06 - 11 civic they got it bang on. It may not be the last word in refinement but then nor is the K20/F20. Bizzarrely in the current civic it is very refined indeed.

 

The weird, surgey throttle response makes an R18 far less of a petrolhead engine than the N22 - and I hate Diseasels. The long-stroke design makes it all a bit Austin-Maxi for me too. A D-series (let alone a sweet B-series!) was far nicer to use.

The R18 (and FK-UFO-Civic) was the ultimately the sign that Honda had lost the plot was far as drivers' cars went. The K20 at least still had a square bore/stroke and a balancer shaft and the dual-stage iVTEC DOHC head. IOW, a worthy mass-market version of the F20C, which was really quite pleasant in an FN2/DC5. Even the rubbery-throttled K20C1 is quite pleasant, if you can stand the turbo-lag.

 

Drove the 2.4 petrol one a few times. Nice car. The diesel version isn't bad either.