The 10th-generation Honda Accord may be late to the party, having been launched here in February this year, but that’s probably due to local assembly preparations (the Pegoh facility is only one of four in the world to produce the new Accord). Two variants are on sale – the 1.5 TC and 1.5 TC-P, and they share the same 1.5 litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine.
While it uses the same engine as the Civic and CR-V, the Accord gets a higher tune thanks to the larger turbocharger, offering 201 PS at 5,500 rpm and 260 Nm from 1,600 to 5,000 rpm. Drive is sent to the front wheels via an Earth Dreams continuously variable transmission (CVT), and the Accord will accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in 9.1 seconds. Top speed is 190 km/h.
Key details include a 15 mm lower roofline, 10 mm lower centre of gravity, 55 mm longer wheelbase (now a whopping 2,830 mm), full-LED headlamps with LED DRLs, LED tail lights, 18-inch alloy wheels, multi-angle reverse camera, and a bunch of accessory packages to go with your purchase.
For the cabin, there’s an eight-inch Advanced Display Audio head unit with 10 speakers, a subwoofer as well as support for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
Only the range-topping 1.5 TC-P gets the Honda Sensing suite of safety and driver assist systems, which include Lane Departure Warning (LDW), Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS), Road Departure Mitigation (RDM), Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS), Forward Collision Warning (FCW), Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), and Low Speed Follow (LSF).
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Gotta love the high quality cupholders lolololol
Save over 60K by choosing Civic TCP la. Cabin size also not small. Same engine and technology. More desirable too.
Civic Turbo simply the best. sekenhen masih lg pensip
No buy straight save RM200k.
Better buy Camry, Passat or Mazda 6 la. Better still wait for Hyundai Sonata
Test drive both passat elegance 2.0TSI & accord 1.5tcp today (11 May 2021), really shocked at the accord poor & gross performance. Huge mistakes by honda to mate tiny 1.5tcp turbo for accord – ill fitted. Sport mode also does not help & very noisy. Thus most of the hitech sensors are irrelevant & look cluttered. I feels accord gen 8 engine are even better & responsive. On the other hand Passsat TSI power & driving dynamic almost equal to bmw 3 series (i own bmw 330e before). Luckily i have tested both car today & immediately settled for VW (looking for arteon but unfortunatly no longer available).. so settled for 2020 passat 2.0TSI for rm157 @ psh autohaus puchong (surprise value for a brand new passat!; w/o insurance). Even say if accord pricing to be reduce to sub rm100k keen driver should steer away from the car.
(Like) Camry and Teana
(Dislike) Accord
Mario, why do you hate Honda so much?
The pricing is crazy. Wonder why buy this when you can just get the 320 g20 with about the same size (yes they are of diff segment c and d)
Nope. 3 series and C class is actually European version of segment D. Similar in size and wheelbase.
E class and 5 series is known as E segment while 7 series and s class in in F segment.
More info in Wikipedia.
3 series and C class not only shorter legroom, the interior width also narrow.
If they are D segment, accord camry E segment already
The germans 3 and C only has wider and longer front bonnet, with a c segment body and butt
Simply for rear-wheel drive shaft
Merc A Class has longer wheelbase than standard Japanese C segmenters (at 2700mm).
but the interior space of A class inferior to Toyota Vios Honda City
Since City can tapau Camry, no need this Accord la.
Giant Ketam Lampu Merah
If Civic is crab, does it make Accord the King Crab or Hokkaido Giant Crab?
Accord 201PS most powerful in its class. Bravo
Jees man, you’re on camera, alone, more than 20 feet from the next person- drop the mask will ya?
Same sausage as Civic TCP, only longer and bigger. Better to buy Civic TCP
Sometimes I think car reviewers fail to realise that there are many types of drivers, and many types of owners. Some of the former may not place absolute importance on power delivery, or even on active safety systems. Some of the latter don’t see not having LED lighting as important, just as having a range of interior mood colour lighting is not important, really.
Matt complaints about everything….
Too much ah beng
The crab-esque design lives on……I suspect more sea creatures inspired design from Honda (crab claws, crab eyes, crab legs, crab shell, etc…)
Dugong Toyota
Ketam Honda
Nissan??
Mazda??
Sepit Udang?
So this honda staple much powderful than civic crab.
the point is uncle don’t like turbo
Civic sold also less than CR-V. Bcuz uncle prefer 2.0 CR-V
Turbo for uncles are not new things, it has been in decades. Once buy, cannot retire peacefully
Now Honda comes with LSF, accoding to Prof Google, it says it can follow the car below 25mph. I hope it means that the LSF will move the car if the car in front move, front stand still ( or stop in traffic jam).
More relaxing than current Honda Sensing system because the current system require the driver to step on the accelerator pedal or click the resume cruise on steering wheel whenever the car comes to a complete stop.
But still hate the CVT and the horrendous look of the rear lights. Imho the rear lights make the car looks cheap.
Ohh locally assembled. I thought CBU from thai
Awesome review as always, Matthew! Paultan videos are getting better each time too, nice editing and good music!
D-segment is a dying breed thanks to its exorbitant pricing. Malaysians will splurge on a C-Class or 3 Series instead, even though they’re much smaller compared to the usual Japanese C-segment.
Why wear the mask during review if you are alone in the car? Voice feel masked and little unclear
I had been a Camry owner for 15 years or more.
But decided on a switch to Accord-TC 1.5 this one time.
My MAIN complaint will be that the Accord offer a VERY harsh ride with the suspension it has.
I drive from KL to Penang. The highway road from T.Malim to Tapah is cement base. It was probably the most uncomfortable ride I had.
My advice is CAMRY offers the more comfortable ride.
But camry 2.5 hybrid costs you RM800 for road tax…accord’s is only RM90-110….not really a big thing since u can afford a 200k car but the hybrid battery will cost you 8k when it needs replacement