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2018 Honda Accord

Honda first unveiled the Accord in 1976 after the success of the smaller Civic convinced the company to soldier on as an automobile manufacturer following a string of product flops. The company chose the name "Accord" to reflect "Honda's desire for accord and harmony between people, society and the automobile," and sales quickly climbed, as Americans embraced its practicality, fuel efficiency and reliability. Honda gave its flagship midsize sedan a pretty dramatic redesign for 2018, canceling the coupe version, giving it a larger interior, widening and lowering the car, moving to an all-turbocharged four-cylinder engine lineup and adopting the Civic's more athletic quasi-fastback styling. The Accord is offered in five trim levels — LX, Sport, EX, EX-L and Touring — and the Sport models are available with a six-speed manual transmission for those who like to drive stick. An Accord Hybrid is also now available, though we'll mostly focus on the regular versions of the sedan. Use this buyer's guide to help you make an educated decision about whether to buy the 2018 Honda Accord. We'll include safety and reliability ratings, engine specs and horsepower, fuel-economy ratings and pricing. We'll also summarize Autoblog's professional review of the 2018 Accord. How safe is the Honda Accord? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gives the 2018 Accord its top rating of five stars across the board—for overall rating and frontal, side and rollover crash protection. It also gets a coveted "Top Safety Pick" from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which conducts its own suite of crash tests. IIHS gives the 2018 Accord "good" ratings on all of its crashworthiness metrics and a "superior" rating for front crash avoidance and mitigation. Headlights, meanwhile, were rated "acceptable," while its child-seat LATCH anchors earned a "good plus" rating for the use of extra LATCH positions. Related: How to make choosing the safest car for your family easy Visit the NHTSA and IIHS websites to review ratings on the specific vehicle you're researching, since ratings may differ for Accords from other model years. How reliable is the Honda Accord? J.D. Power has reviewed the 2018 Accord Hybrid, but its last review of the internal-combustion version of the sedan was for the 2014 model year. It gives the Hybrid version three stars each — "about average" — for overall quality and predicted reliability. Related: The most reliable cars in America We note that Autoblog has taken issue with the way J.D. Power weighs serious and less-serious reliability issues. Read more about that here. NHTSA has reported no recalls of the 2018 Honda Accord. How much interior and cargo room does the Honda Accord have? Head room is greatest in the LX and Sport models because it lacks a moonroof, at 39.5 inches in front and 37.3 inches in the rear. Above those trim levels, those figures are 37.5 inches in front and 37.2 in back. Leg room is the same across all trim variants, at 42.3 inches in front and 40.4 inches in the rear. Cargo …
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