2015 Honda Accord Sport Hybrid review | road test - Cars Guide
Something got lost in translation on the Honda Accord Sport Hybrid. Yet all of those things are missing from the new top-end Accord, the first proper Honda hybrid after four "mild" hybrids were culled from Australian showrooms. Honda has big dreams and high hopes for its new Australian flagship, which is priced towards the space once filled by the Legend. For that money, it offers the technology — also coming in the born-again NSX supercar — to give it proper hybrid bragging rights. The Accord is a three-mode hybrid that combines a hi-tech Atkinson-cycle petrol engine, a 124kW electric motor and smaller supplementary generator. At low speeds it runs fully electric and at high speeds it's fully petrol powered with 105kW and 165Nm, but mostly it's in hybrid mode with smart electronics making the decisions on how to combine the petrol and electric power sources for maximum... The downside is the extra weight means the Sport is no quicker than a regular 2. 4-litre petrol Accord and some way down on the 206kW V6 model. The Sport's failure is also reflected in suspension that's set for cushioning, not sport, and braking that's all right but not great. Source: www.carsguide.com.au
