2015 Honda Accord EX-L — back to basics, but updated for the 21st century - SFGate (blog)
Year in and year out, Honda and Toyota steadily sell so many of these sedans that they are now like Model T Fords nearly 100 years ago. The ninth generation car we had for a week was a 2015 Accord four-door EX-L Navi — it had the stock 185-horsepower, four-cylinder engine, mated to a continuously variable (automatic) transmission. Unlike most car makers, Honda doesn’t give you a base car and then slap on expensive optional packages. They simply make base models, intermediate models and high-end models. At $30,985 (including shipping), ours was near the high end – Accords sell for approximately $22,000 (the base LX model) to nearly $34,000 (the Touring. ) Each model in between comes with either a four-banger or a six-cylinder engine, cloth or leather seats, navigation or no navigation. Our Accord had all the usual accoutrements you’d expect in a car in that $30,000 range (this is the average price paid for a new car in America), such as auto up-down front windows, big-deal stereo, electronic stability control, and so forth. But the story of the Accord is not so much the different features, the updated electronic features, the tight comfortable cabin. The Accord is known more for the sum of its parts. Over 40 years, Honda has massaged the car in a slowly evolving manner so that it has become what Honda may have originally intended for it: a sedan without too many frills, a car that adheres to a basic formula of getting there and getting back... Source: blog.sfgate.com
