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What is it?

The most powerful and expensive version of the new Honda Accord - the flagship of Honda’s new range, in fact – and one of the cars that, Honda hopes, can convince the British public that it can make upmarket, premium saloons that stand comparison with the very best.

What’s it like?

Like all of the new model range, the priciest version of Honda’s new compact executive saloon gets a richer and better-quality cabin than the last car, a more adventurous-loo...Read the full article

This car clearly needs an extra three cylinders, another 50bhp and a couple of grand off the exhorbitant price tag. As it is, it's an expensive irrelevance. Why would anyone buy it over the more stylish, refined and premium Lexus IS250, let alone the German triumvirate that leave it for dead (metaphorically and figuratively)?

I took delivery of my new 2.4 Honda Accord in June. It's been absolutley fabulous. The engine revs like crazy and the car handles like it is on rails. I had the previous model and that was excellent too. In three years and over 60,000 miles absolutely nothing ever went wrong, not even a blown light bulb. Previously I have driven BMW 330 (car fell to bits, had to have the gearbox replaced, dealers were completely incompetent), an Audi A4 2.8 quattro (constant electrical problems) and a Merc C class 280 (fell to bits, dealers were snobby).

Stop looking at the badge and go and drive one. I'm very happy to have something different on my drive, rather than some mass produced german car.

N P:

This car clearly needs an extra three cylinders...

A seven cylinder engine? Would that be inline or a vee configuration?
 

 Nonsense. 

It quite clearly must be in Boxer configuration.

Brrmm, brrmm.

...or maybe a radial configuration?