The Car Connection Expert Review
Likes
- Hybrid efficiency and power
- Spacious cabin
- Fresh tech
- Generous standard safety features
- Available 48 mpg combined
Dislikes
- Small standard touchscreen
- Unimpressive acceleration
- Lacks luxury feel of predecessor
- Seems like a stopgap
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features & specs
The 2024 Honda Accord maintains its lead over rival sedans with new tech and a fresh cabin design.
What kind of vehicle is the 2024 Honda Accord? What does it compare to?
With a potent hybrid option and room for five passengers, the 2024 Honda Accord stands out in a competitive but small class of midsize sedans such as the Hyundai Sonata, Toyota Camry, and Nissan Altima.
Is the 2024 Honda Accord a good car?
The Accord was redesigned for 2023, ushering in the bestseller’s 11th generation. It has fewer emissions and a better infotainment interface, but keeps its strong value and engaging handling. It’s good for a TCC Rating of 7.0 out of 10. (Read more about how we rate cars.)
What's new for the 2024 Honda Accord?
The 2024 Accord carries over unchanged. Last year’s full redesign made it wider and longer, more modern and cleaner than Accords of the past, and it follows suit with recent Honda design. That’s most apparent in the front end, with a low focal point and broad grille reminiscent of the Civic.
The nose incorporates most of the additional length, which sweeps into a fastback roofline for a sporty look; available black-finished 19-inch alloys enhance the effect. The looks aren’t backed up by performance, though. Comfort and efficiency take priority, and Honda distracts from the absence of the discontinued 252-hp turbo-4 by pointing to the revised hybrid powertrain.
A 192-hp 1.5-liter turbocharged-4 powers LX and EX models, driving the front wheels through a CVT. It’s coarse compared to the Accord Hybrid, but is still good for 32 mpg combined.
The hybrid system pairs the revised 2.0-liter inline-4 with two motors for 204 hp and 247 lb-ft of torque. The system is smooth and feels effortless, and its reliance on the electric power helps yield ratings of up to 48 mpg combined, or 44 mpg combined in models with 19-inch wheels. Balanced handling and direct steering result in good driving dynamics for a front-drive sedan.
A new seat frame design for 2023 provides more support for front riders, and there’s plenty of legroom in the second row. Thin pillars offer good outward vision. With 16.7 cubic feet of trunk capacity, the Accord is one of the best in the class, and even better, the Hybrid’s cabin and trunk measurements are the same.
The IIHS gives it a Top Safety Pick+ rating. The standard safety package includes automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitors, and active lane control, while features like wide angle cameras and radar detectors enhance detection.
How much does the 2024 Honda Accord cost?
The 2024 Honda Accord LX starts at about $29,000, including a $1,095 destination fee. The 1.5-liter turbo-4 engine comes in LX and EX versions, and standard features like LED front lighting, 17-inch alloys, cloth seats, a 10.2-inch digital instrument cluster, a 7.0-inch touchscreen, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, and two USB-C ports.
The 2024 Accord Hybrid is available in Sport, EX-L, Sport-L, and Touring grades, priced from about $33,000 to about $40,000.
Where is the 2024 Honda Accord made?
It’s been made in Marysville, Ohio, since 1982.
2024 Honda Accord Styling
The Accord saves its fresh angles for its interior.
Is the Honda Accord a good-looking car?
With a smoother fastback roofline than just a generation ago, and a stylish new cabin, the latest Honda Accord earns a 7 here, with a point added each for the interior and exterior.
Today’s Accord sits nearly three inches longer than the prior car, but it’s obviously a lightly updated version of that sleek four-door. Some of the added length has been absorbed in a longer nose with a wider grille perched under thin LED headlights. Broad and low, the Accord dons a chrome strip like its predecessor, only here it tucks back beneath the rear side windows, rather than continuing on toward the trunk. The emphasis goes on the subtle and sleek, not the garish—and that’s why this Accord sets no pace but offends no eyes, either.
The interior mixes steps back and steps forward. Honda has replaced the saddle-style banks of transmission switches with a gear lever, which almost feels like a throwback touch, and it’s felled the fake timber on the dash. Instead, this Accord dons a strip of mesh metal in a band across the dash horizon. The band hides air vents and calls attention to the low cowl, as well as to the gloss-black plastic beneath it—but it’s a handsome companion to the smaller Civic’s interior treatment. Buyers choose either an 7.0-inch or 12.3-inch touchscreen that perch on the dash, studded by a reinstated volume knob and seated above a panel of buttons and dials for climate controls. Clean and uncluttered, this Accord interior makes more of a statement than the exterior.
2024 Honda Accord Performance
The Accord Hybrid represents Honda’s best and brightest gas-powered thinking.
Honda skews this Accord away from sporty driving and more toward comfort and efficiency, and it’s a winning effort. Its impressive composure merits a point above average, for a 6 here.
Is the Honda Accord 4WD?
While other midsize sedans have been fitted (or retrofitted) with all-wheel drive, Honda has stood by front-wheel drive.
It relies more on a well-tuned front strut and multilink rear suspension—now without adaptive dampers—to grant drivers an engaging drive while keeping the cost and complexity down. The Accord drives with verve that’s missing from most of its rivals. The suspension’s set just so, while a stiffer body and balanced steering responses endow it with the responsive but light-effort feel that’s marked most of Honda’s best vehicles since the Accord took up U.S. residence in 1982.
How fast is the Honda Accord?
It’s not fast, though. The Accord trades off sheer performance for a balanced approach to efficiency, with the sky-high fuel economy of the hybrid version very much worth the trade.
Base Accords make do with a 1.5-liter turbo-4 that puts out 192 hp and 192 lb-ft of torque. Though it reaches a power peak at a low 1,700 rpm, it wouldn’t pass muster in a library. It’s coarse and noisy as its CVT keeps the engine working in the most efficient stretch of its powerband, and it drones like a badly considered symposium speaker.
Spend nearly $5,000 more for the Accord Hybrid, and the regrets will be few. It pairs a 2.0-liter inline-4 with twin electric motors and a nominally sized battery to produce a net 204 hp and 247 lb-ft. The Accord Hybrid develops power more evenly but more thinly than the turbo-4s of some competitors, but it’s so smoothly integrated the pieces together, it’s able to mask its moderate acceleration. Light-throttle driving leans into all-battery power as long as it can, and the Accord can decouple its gas engine even at highway speeds when it’s not needed.
Drive modes from Eco to Normal to Sport remap the Accord’s throttle response and steering weight. We could do without Sport mode’s amplified powertrain sounds—but we’ll keep the Hybrid’s paddle shifters, which toggle through six regenerative-braking levels, finishing with a near one-pedal drive feel that’s close to EV behavior. Training wheels for the near future? Let’s go with that.
2024 Honda Accord Comfort & Quality
The Accord doesn’t sacrifice room or comfort.
Nearly full-size by official measurements, the 2024 Accord basks in a 111.4-inch wheelbase, which grants it great room for four passengers, surrounded by a well-fitted interior that doesn’t try to be fancy and a trunk that tucks into cargo like salty snacks. All that merits the Accord an 8 for comfort and utility.
Base Accord LX sedans get cloth upholstery and manual-adjusted front seats, but those chairs have better padding and lots of headroom and legroom for their occupants. On most models Honda fits heated front seats and power adjustment, but only the top Accord gets cooled front seats and a heated rear bench.
The Accord’s interior plays up stylish trim pieces and good small-item storage, but a few grainy plastic trim panels contrast with that high-quality presentation. Turbo-4 cars get noisy, true, but the Accord Hybrid only allows tire whispers into the cabin.
Worth noting: the Accord has big doors front and rear, which gives tall passengers plenty of space to maneuver into the car. Once in back, they’ll use up most of the 40.8 inches of rear legroom, but that’s what it’s there for, right? Four large people fit fine, with space for a smaller fifth in the middle back perch.
The back seats fold down to expand the Accord’s trunk from its usual 16.7 cubic feet—and Hybrid models don’t sacrifice any cargo space to their more complex powertrains.
2024 Honda Accord Safety
The crash-test agencies have good things to say about the latest Accord.
How safe is the Honda Accord?
Very safe, according to the IIHS. The insurance industry-funded group gives the sedan a Top Safety Pick+ award. The NHTSA gives it five stars overall also, which along with standard safety gear and good outward vision, land the four-door at a 9 here.
The Accord comes with automatic emergency braking, active lane control, blind-spot monitors, adaptive cruise control, and automatic high beam headlights. Honda doesn’t offer much in the way of safety options, but does add parking sensors to the Touring model.
2024 Honda Accord Features
A great value, the Accord has a big touchscreen and Google infotainment on tap.
The Accord has a great selection of standard equipment, has swell Google-based infotainment, and offers striking value for less than $29,000. For all that, it’s an 8 for features.
The base $28,990 Accord LX has a 7.0-inch touchscreen, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, digital gauges, and cloth upholstery. A basic 3-year/36,000-mile warranty includes two years or 24,000 miles of scheduled service. Hybrids add a separate 8-year/100,00-mile battery warranty. It’s hard to go wrong here.
Which Honda Accord should I buy?
Still we’d spend more for the $33,640 Accord Sport hybrid, which gains a 12.3-inch touchscreen and wireless smartphone connectivity, with an option for wireless smartphone charging. The EX-L models add on heated front seats and roll on 17-inch wheels and tires, while most other models ride on 19-inchers.
How much is a fully loaded Honda Accord?
The $39,635 Accord Touring hybrid antes up with 12-speaker Bose audio, heated and cooled front seats, heated rear outboard seats, wireless smartphone charging, a wifi hotspot, and a 6.0-inch head-up display.
2024 Honda Accord Fuel Economy
Accord Hybrids get up to 48 mpg combined.
Is the Honda Accord good on gas?
Hybrids score sky-high ratings of up to 48 mpg combined, earning a 6 here since Honda expects the hybrid variant to make up at least 50% of Accord sales. The Accord LX and EX get 32 mpg combined, which is still impressive for a non-hybrid.
That 48-mpg rating comes via the smaller 17-inch wheels and tires on the EX-L edition—and puts this Accord Hybrid in league with the Toyota Camry Hybrid’s and Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Blue’s 52-mpg combined ratings.