A year and 18.766 Miles Of Being couped Up - So here we are, one year after delivery of a 2014 Accord EX-L V6 coupe with six-speed, el...
So here we are, one year after delivery of a 2014 Accord EX-L V6 coupe with six-speed, eleven months after the first update, and five months after hitting the 12k mark. As fate would have it, at the same time, the crew Car enjoyed a free year in a car almost exactly like mine, with Honda's permission. This, incidentally, is where the true nature of the biz autojourno comes in: I made a little over $ 9,300 in monthly payments, insurance and maintenance to do exactly what the crowd Car made free
well, not exactly I also took mine to a race track. Sometimes.
Nominally speaking, the purpose of my trip March to Putnam Park was for me to drive a sharpened of Lingenfelter Corvette ZR1 R & T and coach Josh Condon, bald but brilliant front of the magazine editor books, a measure of competence driving said creature 750 horsepower at temperatures which cracked the top of forty degrees Fahrenheit. Since I had been in my new agreement, but ... why not try both? With only 3,000 miles on the V6, the agreement was broken in enough dust absolutely a couple of competence-driven cut Scion FR-S around Putnam Park - for three laps, anyway. That's all you get on the front discs pleasantly undersized. Keep in mind that V6 Accords are getting a brake upgrade on their siblings four-cylinder, but that's like saying Attack of the Clones is an improvement over The Phantom menace . It's just different degrees of suction. If you want to know how much Honda provides car at this price, looking at the braking equipment will help you understand.
As mentioned in my previous article on the 12,000 mile mark, the Agreement has great R & around "Motown Mile" T in the Performance Car Of The Year test. In October, I took the same roads of southeastern Ohio, we used for this article and decided that I preferred both the VW GTI and Subaru STi -. With the reservation, of course, the brakes
After a full year, however, I'm still using my old Audi S5 as the yardstick to which I judge the great cut Honda. In the kind of winter we're having now, I prefer the Audi, and by a long shot. There is nothing like ten below temperatures to expose the shortcuts in the quality of materials, and I am afraid to say that the Agreement has a few flaws here. The driver's seat was creaking from the first day and in cold conditions, it makes a crackling noise-frizzy. I'll have it looked at, I think. Fuel door is misaligned, and not much less than the gap enraged young Derek last year. No body panels align really how I like them.
I went to my local dealer twice since taking delivery, in both cases to have maintenance performed Honda recommended. It is much cheaper to have the basic service intervals performed on an agreement that, say, a Porsche Boxster, but I do not think it really comes as a surprise to anyone. Come March, I'll talk to them the driver's seat and the fuel filler door.
What can I complain? Well, there is a bug in the interface media that causes the display to be a little confused when playing music from an Android phone. The Acura TLX I drove last year was an updated version of the same system that has not had the problem, so I suspect that 2015 agreements will not either. The sunroof is a bit noisy in both closed and open. If, like me, you use your car as an office and a restaurant and everything else, you will not like the way that salt and other tiny particles clog in perforated leather. In cold weather, windows closed stick easily and the clutch is soft. The headlights are not bright and you have to drive to Canada to get an Accord Coupe with LED headlights. That, or break in the Ohio plant where they are installed. The center console feels wobbly and delicate, but not more than what you get in a Camry or Altima.
This list of troubles, the Coupe offers: a strong sound system, clear. Visibility. Conveniently located LATCH tethers. Plenty of storage space. Comfortable seats with bolsters the long thigh, what really matters when you carting around a large woman. (Or guy, I guess, but I do not care about that.) Quick Defrost time. Decent A / C legible instrumentation. Big side mirrors. Lots of space in the trunk. A "earthdreams" super-cool badge on the plastic intake cover. You get the idea.
Since September or I was intermittently commute a couple of jobs in downtown Columbus via a route of 15.6 miles is mostly highway driving. In these circumstances, I see a consistent 24-26mpg. It's not brilliant, but the S5 could not crack 15mpg in the same circumstances, and it was not much faster in real world use despite best result C / D test of the Agreement of [email protected] against the Audi [email protected]
experienced drag racers will note the 0.6-second gap and against the deviation of 2 mph trap speed and suspect, correctly, that the Agreement is contested traction. It is not enough that the Honda turns the front wheels of a search; even a Yugo GV done that. It is more than you can be rolling on the road 40 in second gear and spin 'em easily. Pushed hard enough, the third cut will chirp like a 440-powered Chrysler. It is almost always possible to turn at least one of the front wheels at all times.
This trait, as well as some totally unfounded complaints about the steering and suspension, was enough to Car give low marks Accord EX V6 in their four-season tests. "For me, the standard Accord sedan is a much better running vehicle as the coupe, which tries too hard to be something it is not," said Joey Capparella in the journal wrap-up of the magazine. Joe Lorio noted that "the extreme enthusiast-specification" of the Accord was "disappointing". I must admit that my first reaction to the two comments were less respectful, but after watching these two companions until I think I understand why they wrote what they did a little better.
If you think of this car as an agreement "extreme amateur", you are bound to be disappointed. This is not a type R or even an Si. It is not trying to be. It's just a family car with a big engine. Here is a recipe as old as the Ford flathead, you know. If the Accord sedan is the successor of retail purchase daily sedan throne once owned by the '74 GM A-body, then this is simply a modern version of '77 Cutlass my mother, who was (more) powered by a 403 -inch cubes V-8. This car was not athletic, it was not extreme enthusiast, and he could turn his tires at any time. It was popular, but not dramatically so. History shows that most people chose a V-6 or a small block in the seventy years A-body, and that most people choose an Accord four-cylinder now.
M .. Capparella is just too young to remember the days when high power, soft cups suspended ruled the American road, and the strange historical astigmatism that the automotive press applies to any discussion of pre coats -OBD-II era that time in vaguely ironic label of "Malay" or "Jimmy Carter called the country to put on a sweater." It remains, however, that hundreds of thousands of new car buyers, once chosen vehicles that were spiritually similar to this Agreement. the cars that had plenty of room for mom and dad and two kids and groceries, but has sacrificed a little bit of practice to a little bit of style. cars who looked pretty boring, but that could match anything short of a Corvette when the view through the windshield showed two paths merging in a front. the cars that claim to be able to win an SCCA race or perch a fire road or carry a ton of dirt or towing the space shuttle, but were somehow purchased by regular people in large numbers, regardless of the missing pseudo-qualities.
If you think a CVT Accord four-cylinder powered Accord is the best, the good news: you'll be able to buy a dozen years. If you want a little power, or a bit of both doors flair, or the ability to actually choose your own combination of real synchromesh gear by moving a lever which is connected to these gears with a steel link, you had better move quickly. The Accord Coupe is not a wannabe M3 or a Boomer-friendly CUV or phrase four-wheeled self-flagellating enviro-piety, and since it is not those who, it is something else :. A species endangered
i-MID display truncates the name of the song, as you can see above - jb
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