LAST AUTO NEWS – ACCORD POWERING UP TO BOOST SALES – ACCORD POWERING UP TO BOOST SALES
Last Auto account – Accord powering up to addition sales – Accord powering up to addition sales Latest adaptation of Accord gets a higher-powered agent and lots of kit as standard.
Will â??S’ be the abstruse to the Accord’s success? Honda hopes so, with a new high-performance Type S agent set to accompany the controlling car ambit from June.
It will admission at next month’s Geneva Motor Show, alongside the firm’s new Insight amalgam and the CR-X sports amalgam concept, additional a run-out adaptation of the S2000.
Available in alehouse or acreage bodystyles, the Type S appearance an uprated 2.2-litre diesel. This has a revised turbo, new butt arch and beyond intercooler, and offers 178bhp – a acceleration of 30bhp – and 380Nm of torque. The car is accepted to amount £27,000, but even with 18-inch alloys, covering and sat-nav as standard, it will accept its plan cut out to bout its Audi, BMW and VW rivals in the charts. Last year, just over 6,000 Accords begin homes, compared to 31,000 Audi A4s and 30,000 VW Passats.
The new Insight will brilliant in Switzerland advanced of its barrage actuality in April. The five-door is powered by a 1.3-litre petrol engine akin to an electric motor, and will go head-to-head with Toyota’s new Prius.
Meanwhile, the CR-Z abstraction previews what will become the aboriginal sports amalgam to go into boilerplate production. It’s due on auction actuality aboriginal next year.
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