Honda Accord Drive Sedan since 2011 sedan

Pan-Sportsman

Beautiful motto sport - to the masses! You can welcome and in every way to support if it comes to walrus, checkers or cowardly running. But not all active classes are equally useful on a large scale. The result of the introduction into the mass of automobile sports is a massive case of motorists in mass accidents and, as a result, the thinning of these very masses. They are not born riders, in no case do not become, but, on the contrary, degenerate behind the wheel of serial cars intended for traveling on public roads. So on the Honda Accord Type S car, according to Nikolai Fomenko, you can’t do serious sports. You can just love him. You can only be friends with him.
Honda, like a car brand, is not a stranger for me. I worked with Honda cars prepared by the Belgian company ELR, in the Russian championship in ring racing. Yes, there was not Type S, but Type R. Not Accord, but Civic. Not a private vehicle, but a racing car. Never mind.
In general, the Honda types are pleasant and strong types. They definitely feel the breed and a healthy mind in a very healthy body. Almost all Honda live for a long time. They are reliable in operation and do not cause special trouble to their owners.
So Honda Accord Type S, I say this in a way, the car is wonderful in many respects. And again, I admit in my own way: I would not buy Honda Accord Type S. This is the case when two in one is not a dignity, but it is not clear what. Judge for yourself. On the one hand-the car has 190 horses, armchairs with lateral support, a hard steering wheel ... On the other hand, an automatic box and cruise control ... How to understand this, if not as a desire to please our (athletes) and yours) (motorists)? The driver of Honda Accord Type S makes it possible to feel like a swift Schumacher and a lazy vacationer at the same time. As a result, he does not feel either to one and the other.
Oh, sport, you are myth! I would call this type of car - a panel athlete. Transfer the image of a half -forgotten character from zucchini 13 chairs on a mechanical vehicle and you will understand what I'm talking about. A blush in the full cheek, pumped up biceps and developed buttock muscles - these virtues make a pleasant impression (especially for girls), but they are unlikely to be enough to jump 8 meters or run out 100 meters out of 10 seconds.
With all that Honda Accord Type S is almost a sports, quite aggressive car. Okay cut, very well hung. It is fast and stable enough. He is able to impress. He even surprises with his virtues, extending to certain limits. When you turn off the VCA stabilization system (Vehicle Stability Assist), the Accord Type S can remotely remind the rally car. The driver will have to seriously work with his arms, legs and head. It is even more serious than in the slot machine room or behind the prefix like Sony PlayStation. True, he will have to spend a little more money in this case.
Despite its front -wheel drive, Accord is predictable in management. He is not rocker. The suspension is magnificent - hard, strong, reliable. She seemed to adapt to the road herself. She does not swallow unevenness as a monster like Mercedes-Benz W140. She eats them up, but leaves the driver to feel something.
Despite what was said, the machine is asphalt. I will not say that she has no equal on a hard road surface, but she is really good here. No wonder she was loved so much in the British championship. But Honda Accord is better not to let the Honda Accords. The car will not break in a crossed area, but it will suffer there. And suffer much stronger than evolution or subaricians. Maybe this power should be put in all -wheel drive, right.
The car’s steering wheel is hard and, as it is customary to write in specialized magazines for auto -channels, informative, with normal healthy servofunction. That is, the faster the excited driver rides, the harder his steering wheel becomes.
The corresponding gearbox is relied on to such a steering wheel. On the tested chord, it turned out to be automatic. True, with the possibility of switching to manual mode. However, the transmission here is still the opposite. That is, in order to switch to increased, the lever needs to be pushed from yourself, and you have to decline. This contradicts Germanic logic and, most importantly, adopted in motorsport the order of things. With already developed control skills, that is, solid hand memory, such a substitution is disastrous.
Shine and poverty. Honda masters have always been famous for their engines. It is not surprising that the driver of Honda Accord Type S will pull on exploits. With such a bully motor, this is a good sin. But the motor also has its own bells and whistles. From the middle up - it is simply amazing. But at the very bottom, the engine feels worse. He ceases to be burdensome and has for a long time. Thinking. And all because his work is subordinated to the I-VTEC system (Intelligent Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control), a smart control time and valve lifting height. The intelligence of the system is manifested in providing the motor with a comfortable life within the limits close to the time. To fall below 4500 revolutions is just death. But to ride constantly at revolutions above 4,500 in the city, unless it is a city of Zero, where there are no traffic jams, no traffic lights, no traffic cops with speedgans.
I don’t really understand what cities this car was calculated in. Honda Accord, in my opinion, does not get modernity. I will explain. A modern city car has an abundance of electronic things. Today it is supposed to put a large information display in the car - Honda rivals have long understood this. Motorists are spoiled by displays on which you can see everything you need, and many more that is not needed at all. What is happening there with a car, weather, a road atmosphere and a situation in the world on TV are insanely interesting. And everyone wants to know about this a little more than it is available through the windshield.
For a car such as Honda Accord, it would be nice to have something else except the receiver, climate control and compact disk player. Claims for sports in the form of Kevlar linings near the gearbox and iron inserts on the steering wheel are not cheaper than useful, without any complaints, options in the form of a phone or navigation.
On the other hand, for some reason it seems to me that even a notestone-raiser appreciated if the sports spirit of the car were supported by something more than Kevlar alone. He would be high on the display, for example, how the revolutions grow, how the computer makes a checking of various systems ... It is not so expensive, but it would look spectacular. In general, dryness in the design of the devices, revived only by scarlet lighting, is inappropriate in the 21st century. Even in a car like S. This dryness is like a reminder to the driver: they say, you have nothing to touch something here, we will do everything for you.
The design of the steering column also raises questions. Why on the steering wheel (hard, correct rally configurations and grip) on the right side is the Kirio-Control control key, which in the world, except on the USA, do not use. Either remove everything, or add everything you can. In any case, duplicate transfers of gearboxes would look more appropriate for a lonely cruise control button.
It will be not enough. No, I am ready to accept Honda asceticism. But if you play ascetic, then play to the end. And I will prove in practice what the ascetic is capable of. I don't need anything at all. Remove the radio, soft upholstery, air conditioning, electro -regulation and machine gun. Give me real mechanics, and not a stick with a twist, three pedals, not two, and I will demonstrate to the roots somewhere in my country house, what is 190 horses in muscular hands. But in the city I do not need such a car. Even a car with half comfort I do not need. From such a car I expect more compliments from the chief designer, more small pleasant things that will serve me as a consolation for the money spent. This car should be opened more for a person. Yes, yes, I know that everything is bought and everything is sold and options can be pulled even by such a car as Izh Oda. But what is the joy of this?
I don’t know what cars are included in the list of direct competitors of Honda Accord Type S. But if you fantasize about fast seconds, laurels, champagne cups and girls in bright topics, it is better to fantasize with all amenities.

Text Nikolay Fomenko, photo Andrey Danilov

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Honda Accord 2.4 Type-S
 
Beneri 4-cylinder engine in row
Working volume (cubic cub) 2354
Power (L.S. at rpm) 190 at 6800
Moment (nm at rpm) 223 at 4500
Front drive
Gearbox 5-speed automatic with the possibility of manual gear shifts (6-speed mechanical)
Length/width/height (mm) 4665/1760/1450
Wheel base (mm) 2670
Mass weight (kg) 1489
Maximum speed (km/h) 227
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 9.0 (7.9)
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 13.7 (12.7)/6.9
The cost of the test car is $ 33,300
mweb.motoring.za: In our description, Accord Type-S is a hooligan Honda. She looks like a sports car, it behaves like a sports car and steer like a sports car. But remove cosmetics - and you will get a fairly elegant, complex sedan, in which there is a lot of space, which is very attractive both in terms of style and as fashionable trends. Passenger seats and commanding places are magnificent, although the equipment leaves your feeling that you want something a little more. It seems to us that the image of Accord Type-S indicates a certain desire to destroy to the base of the market, which is unlikely to overestimate the advantages of Type-S, even despite a certain tendency to understand the German cars.

theCarconnection.com: The truth is that Accord has always been an attractive car. The motors were always responsive, control has always been cute, from the car it always blew calm and confidence. It was always well made, and its price was reasonably appropriate. How often did he find himself in the ten best Car and Driver rating cars? How many comparative tests did you win? The truth is that Accord was amazingly successful because he deserved to be amazingly successful. But the better you know something, the less you read it. And so there were a lot of articles about the chord in which they respond coolly on the grounds that all cars sold in such a huge amount should be led to one common denominator. And this denominator should be as few as possible.

Motoring & Independent Online: Accord is one of those beautiful cars in which the whole is more than the sum of parts. There are no frankly weak places and very little minor flaws in it. Drive in such a car is an extremely pleasant experience. As a choice from a number of compact sports sedans, the Accord Type-S is irresistible, and at the same time it differs from itself with its own philosophy and a high degree of performance. This is an incredibly completed car.

Autogazeta: They say that an angry dog \u200b\u200bcannot be looked directly in the eyes: he perceives it as a challenge and becomes even more aggressive. It seems that motorists now have a problem of this kind-to consider in the rear-view mirror the evil headlights of the Honda Accord Type-S, which is also undesirable for a long time, it’s better not to be angry ...
Swiftness is the epithet that very capacious and correctly characterizes the appearance of the new Honda Accord. Even when the car simply stands still, its design unequivocally hints at its potential - high maximum speed, excellent dynamics. It seems that the seventh generation will no longer enjoy such a success among the steppe housewives and fathers of families, since it is too dynamic in statics.

Motor: In the movement, the new Accord is assembly and assembled, while not in a hurry to shake the soul from those sitting inside. For example, tram tracks can only be overcome with a small reset of speed, other small irregularities are also willingly swallowing the elements of the suspension. However, you should not wait for the energy intensity of classmates from the car-after all, the Accord Type-S is aimed at active driving, and the chassis is configured accordingly ... high-speed turn on one of the Moscow embankments, where they recently laid asphalt and thanks to the efforts of road workers in There are excitements of different steepness, not too pleasant a bug.

Author: combined with a 190-horsepower engine really liked the box. No thoughtfulness, instant reaction to gas pedal, quick and inconspicuous switching. Although the manual regime is provided here (and the real one, which allows the motor to hang on the speed limit), but in fact it is simply not needed - the automation changes the transmission flawlessly! And if I ordered Accord 2.4 for myself, then the choice between an automatic machine and mechanics would have turned into a donkey Buridanov, who, as you know, and hesitated from hunger between two exactly the same haystacks.

For the first time, a car with the name Honda Accord appeared in 1976. Since then, the car has been updated once every four years and more often. The current generation of the car is produced since 2002 - the seventh. Recognized as a car of the year in Japan (2002). The third and fifth chords were awarded exactly the same titles. It is curious that it was Honda Accord that became the first Japanese car to be done in the United States (Ohio). Accord is one of the best -selling models in the world, including in Russia. In 2004, 2320 cars were sold through Russian dealers. This is more than 1/3 of all Honda brand cars sold in the country.

By tradition, Honda Accord is designed in two versions - one is intended for the American market, the other for Japan and Europe. Last summer, Honda Motor received a notification from the US National Safety Administration (NHTSA) on the 2004 ACCORD investigation. The reason for the investigation was malfunctions of the side pillows. However, only two cases of such failures had to be investigated.
The aerodynamic resistance coefficient (CX) of the penultimate Accord was 0.30. The latter - 0.26. According to this indicator, Accord is the best car not only in its class.

The VTEC system is the highlight of the Honda engines. VTEC (Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control) is an electronic system for managing the opening time and the height of valve lifting. It is designed to achieve the best characteristics in any engine operating conditions. Appearing in 1990, the VTEC system was modernized several times. In the low-speed zone, VTEC provides an economical mode of engine operation on the depleted fuel-air mixture. At medium speeds, the phase of the gas distribution changes so as to get the maximum torque. The main task of the system at high engine speeds is to get maximum power.
 

A source: "Autopilot"