Honda Accord i-CTDi Ex Saloon

I have now had a 57 plate Accord i-CTDi 2.2 Turbo Diesel for nearly 12 months and am extremely pleased with it Overall mileage is circa 20,000 with a 50 / 50 split of urban / motorway. Average mpg is 48 mpg, worst around town is 42 mpg, best on long run on a motorway using cruise control and at a steady speedof 60 mph (boring I know but ....) is 62 mpg !!! Same journey at 70 mph delivered low 50s mpg. So as we all know really, the mpg a car returns is a function of driving style and speed. The car has been utterly reliable in all respects - no quality issues whatsoever. Interior comfort is great the multi position electrically operated ...

You may have read about my useless car which I wrote about some time ago. Well a few months ago I finally got rid of my MGTF and bought myself a decent car instead. I use the word 'decent' to describe the build quality of my new car and not as a comparison in design, handling, and features etc. I realise that a direct comparison is impossible as the 2 cars are completely different both in terms of the type of person they are aimed at and the uses to which they would be put to. My new car is a 2005 Honda Accord 2.2 i-CTDi Executive and I bought it mostly because of how comfortable and feature rich it was during the test drive but also because of the excellent ...

WHAT IS IT? The current Saloon is the latest in a long line of Accords from Honda, starting, if memory serves me correctly in 1976, although originally, as launched, the Accord was a much smaller three door hatchback. Each successive generation of Accord since has grown a little bigger and rather more sophisticated. The Accord now sits in the rapidly diminishing “family saloon” market competing with models such as the Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall Vectra and other Japanese marques such as the Mazda 6 and Nissan Primera. Honda would however, rather have you think that it is a “Junior Executive” car, in the mould of the BMW 3 Series, Audi A4 and ...