The all-new 11th generation Honda Accord is here. The car continues the tenth-generation Accord classic coupe design style, but the front face will adopt a new-generation Honda CRV similar style design. Compared with the tenth-generation old Accord , the area of the front grille of the 11th-generation new Accord is obviously smaller, with a smoked black sports grille embedded in it. The headlights continue to shrink in size following the trend of the times, which will not make you squint, but it is much older than the 10th-generation Accord. The new Accord is sharper, slender and sportier, and comes standard with LED.
(The 11th generation Accord uses the new CRV family-style front end)
Unconsciously, the tenth generation Honda Accord has been around for 5 and a half years. As the second largest sales volume in the world, mid-size sedan , the Accord has global annual sales. It can exceed 400,000 units. This car has always been Honda's golden signature and "profit cow". It represents the master of Honda Motors and even the entire Japanese automobile industry. This car was launched on the Chinese market in 2018, but its fate was bumpy. Encountered the Honda CRV "throttle" crisis that year.
Around 2017, it was the most glorious year of Honda . Originally, according to Honda's practice of selling new cars in those years, the price must increase. The tenth generation Accord actually received a discount of several thousand as soon as it was launched. The promotion was successful. Unexpectedly, it was the vast number of Chinese Honda fans who saved this car. Earth Dream engine model, the tenth generation Accord has sold more than 200,000 units in China for four consecutive years, second only to Camry, and is far behind Volkswagen Magotan Passat Teana , but this Honda 1.5T Earth Dream engine Problems of "increased oil " and "oil emulsification" still occasionally occur, but Honda fans are always very tolerant of this car.
So will the vast number of Chinese Honda fans be tolerant of the new generation of Accord again? After all, this car's power performance, cost performance, configuration, and market attention are far inferior to BYD Seal and Han DMi.
(The appearance design of the 11th generation Accord is getting closer and closer to the Honda Acura luxury car)
The 11th generation Honda Accord has no secrets in the powertrain, and there are no essential changes. However, the car is "quite innovative" in appearance design. , the waistline is full of muscles, the design is slightly raised from front to back, the windows are obviously smaller, and the overall design is still a coupe, full of dynamics. The all-in-one taillights are in line with the current popular style and are much better looking than the most criticized "sickle" taillights of the 10th generation Accord and the 9th generation Accord.
at the same time. The eleventh-generation Accord continues to upgrade the car's wheel design, starting from 18 inches, and the five-spoke black sports large wheels are full of sporty atmosphere.
Overseas versions, especially the American version, the 11th generation new Accord will still be equipped with a 2.0T+10AT powertrain, while the future domestic version will be equipped with a Honda Earth Dream Technology 1.5T+CVT powertrain, and the high-end version will be directly equipped with a 2.0L hybrid dynamic system. In this way, "changing the shell but not the heart", putting old wine in new bottles will naturally lead to further decline in productivity. Not to mention anything else, the tenth-generation Accord with 2.0T+10AT can accelerate from 100 kilometers to 100 kilometers in 6.2 seconds. Such a powerful power easily loses to the 220,000-yuan BYD Seal. As a product of two eras, if the Accord does not revolutionize itself and change its "heart", it will inevitably become a marginalized niche car.
However, in order to cater to the electrification trend, it is not ruled out that Honda will cooperate with BYD to purchase BYD's blade battery marriage and directly let BYD OEM the plug-in hybrid model of the 11th generation Accord. After all, the Japanese automobile industry is too old. The Accord Hybrid is actually equipped with nickel-metal hydride batteries, an old Japanese battery technology from more than 20 years ago. The motor of the Japanese hybrid car has small power, fast energy consumption attenuation, and slow rotation speed. It is difficult to compete with BYD's DMi and EV three-electric technology. , Huawei's eight-in-one motor, and CATL's Kirin battery are comparable!
If Honda does not want the 11th generation Accord to completely lose to the BYD Seal + Han family, it must show a cooperative attitude and fully embrace electrification. The most ideal thing is to design an 11th-generation Accord EV pure electric model with a low price of more than 200,000 yuan in the next one or two years. Only by improving the three-electric technology content and stability of this "ideal Accord" can this Japanese classic B-class car is built to last.
