August 8, 2012

Drew Dowdell

Managing Editor - CheersandGears.com

Honda today release pictures of the re-sculpted 2013 Honda Accord sedan and Coupe. As one of their perennial best sellers, Honda did not stray too far from the formula that has kept them near or at the top of the mid-size family car segment for years. The overall look of the next Accord isn't much of a surprise since it is so close to the barely disguised concept-as-a-production-car Accord shown at the Detroit Auto Show last January.

Honda has repackaged the Accord to allow for more room on the interior while being slightly smaller outside. Further information on power trains will be released later in 2012, but we expect the 2013 Honda Accord to be available with a new 2.4 liter 4-cylinder and an all new 3.5 liter V6 with cylinder deactivation. Both will come with direct injection and stop-start technology. Transmissions will be a CVT and a new 6-speed automatic respectively. We are also expecting the eventual return of the Accord Hybrid, this time using an all-new 2-mode system with plug-in capability replacing Honda's IMA.

Aside from the familiar LX and EX trims, Honda is introducing "Sport" and "Touring" designations on the Accord with Sport sitting between the LX and EX 4-cylinder models and Touring being the top trim available.

Drew Dowdell is Managing Editor of CheersandGears.com and can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter as @Cheersngears

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good they dont have those goofy bugeye headlights again.

Think the new designs will help Honda....which will keep jobs here in Ohio.

They should get pretty good mpg ratings, the relatively old 4 banger/5 speed auto doesn't do too bad.

About time Honda got some mojo in their style, the porportions are about right and it is pleasing to the eyes.

They look like warmed over versions of the last cars, though the sedan does look better. There's a very good chance that the sedan will end up in our garage.

A return to buttoned-down, conservative style that suits Honda well. Good going on both coupe and sedan.

turdbuckets. refresh. honda sheeple will still buy anyways.

*yawn* looks like even less change than the 2012 Camry. Amazing how domestic companies are criticized for so little change.

13 malibu is changed much more

...and not for the better....