In this 2011, Honda gives new product concept to the honda accord. The 2011 Honda Accord sedan and 2011 Honda Accord Coupe get revised grille inserts and simplified front bumper appearance. Among the tweaks for 2011 is an exterior freshening for both sedan and coupe, including a sharper front fascia design, new wheels, and updated rear lighting.
In the LX, XL-P, and SE sedans, it has 177 horsepower. In the more expensive EX and EX-L sedans and in the all the Coupes it has 190 horsepower. All four-cylinder Accords are available with a five-speed manual transmission or a five-speed automatic. The 2011 Accord’s V-6 is again a 3.5-liter with 271 horsepower. It’s available in the EX V-6 and EX-L V-6 sedans and in the EX-L V-6 Coupe. This V-6 has Honda’s Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) technology that saves gas by deactivating three cylinders in low-demand cruising. All V-6 Accord sedans have a five-speed automatic transmission.
The 2011 Accord EX-L V-6 Coupe is positioned as a performance-oriented two-door and its version of the 3.5-liter lacks VCM. The EX-L V-6 Coupe is the only six-cylinder Accord available with manual transmission; its six-speed manual is geared for quick acceleration. The Accord EX-L V-6 coupe is also available with the five-speed automatic, and 2011 models gain this car’s first steering-wheel-mounted shift paddles; they enable the driver to mimic the gear selection of a manual transmission.
A handful of interior updates consist of new cloth upholstery, a redesigned instrument panel, repositioned climate-control buttons, and what Honda claims are “more-refined” accents. (They must be British accents.) Steering-wheel-mounted paddle shifters are now fitted to V-6 coupes with automatic transmissions, EX sedans and coupes get a USB audio input, and sedans with navigation now have a backup camera.
Accord finally gets a USB iPod interface, a basic 21st century convenience most competitors make standard even on their low-price trim levels. Honda, however, confines USB linking to the 2011 Accord coupes and to the EX and EX-L sedans. Similarly, Honda continues to offer a navigation system only on EX-L Accords at a $2,200 premium for sedans and $2,000 on the coupes. By contrast, the redesigned 2011 Hyundai Sonata, offers navigation even on its entry-level trim. In the Accord, Bluetooth hands-free cell-phone connectivity is limited to the EX-L sedan and EX and EX-L coupes. Bluetooth connectivity increasingly viewed as a safety feature, is far more widely available on most Accord competitors and is standard on many.
