2016 Honda Accord Touring Review

The Honda Accord comes in a coupe and sedan formats and is offered with either a 4-cylinder or a 6-cylinder engine, and there are three transmissions available; giving consumers a good variety of choices depending on their needs.

We’ve already reviewed the Accord sedan (the pre-facelift 2015 model) and Accord Coupe (the mid-cycle refresh 2016 model), both with V6 engines, now it’s time to review the 4-cylinder Accord sedan. Have a look at our previous reviews, we’ve already covered most of the stuff about the new design and what makes these cars so popular. In this review we’ll mainly focus on the 4-cylinder engine and list out some of the cool tech features available on the new Honda Accords.

The 4-cylinder 2016 Honda Accord sedan starts at a reasonable $24,150 Canadian, for the base LX model with a manual transmission, and can be loaded up with all the gadgets and gizmos, topping out with the Touring model, priced at $32,990 with the CVT. Below is a price list for all the available trims on the 4-cylinder Accord sedan.

The 4-cylinder engine is offered on both the sedan and coupe versions of the Accord, this engine is mated to a 6-speed manual transmission, which is very rare in the mid-size sedan segment. The Accord 4-cylinder is also offered with a Continuously Variable Transmission. The 2.4 liter 4-cylinder engine with direct injection, produces 185 horsepower at 6,400 rpm and 181 pound-feet of torque at 3,900 rpm. Our review car was the top of the line 4-cylinder Touring model, which was equipped with the CVT.

The 4-cylinder equipped Honda Accords quite popular cars in Canada, due to our higher fuel prices. The 4-cylinder engine is a great engine, it doesn’t have the smoothness or big grunt of the V6 engine, but it’s still has plenty of power for normal city and highway driving and it is very smooth for a 4-cylinder engine.

Driving the Accord 4-cylinder around town and on some highway driving, I didn’t feel like I needed more power (I always want more power, but for the types of stuff an Accord is used, it was more than enough). There’s good amount of power for normal city driving, filled with traffic lights and stop signs. The power is transferred to the front wheels smoothly via the CVT transmission, which is a very good CVT, it doesn’t feel elastic-y like some of the earlier CVT, it feels more like a regular automatic transmission. Highway driving is also effortless and there’s plenty of passing power, I would have liked paddle shifters to get the CVT to drop down a virtual gear or two for passing, but overall it’s fine for highway driving.

The 4-cylinder Accord, like the V6 Accord, comes with an “Econ” button that’s there to help you save even more fuel, pressing this button dulls the throttle response a little. I didn’t feel much difference in performance in and out of the Econ mode, so for my week long drive I just left it in this mode (on the V6 you can really feel a significant difference with it on and off).

The 4-cylinder Accord is meant to save you cash at the pump. According to Honda, the 4-cylinder Accord with manual transmissions should consume 10.3/7.2/8.9 Liters/100 km in city/highway/combine driving, while CVT equipped Accords should consume 9.1/6.8/8.0 L/100 km. Our week long review netted us 7.5 L/100 km on 50/50 city/highway driving and 10.0 L/100 km in city driving, these numbers were according to the on-board computer.

Overall, the 4-cylinder Accord is a great car and a good alternative to the V6. It has plenty of power, it’s pretty smooth, and fuel efficient, saving you quite a bit at the pump. The 4-cylinder Accord can also be loaded up with all the tech features available on the more expensive Accord V6, below is a list of what you can load up your Accord with:

• Proximity key entry and push button start
• Remote engine starter
• Active Noise Cancellation (ANC)
• Heated seats
• Driver’s seat with 10 way power and Passenger seat with 4 way manual adjustments
• Dual-zone automatic climate control with air-filtration system
• Auto-dimming rear view mirror
• HandsFreeLink bilingual Bluetooth wireless mobile phone interface with steering wheel mounted controls
• Auxiliary input jack
• USB connectivity
• Navigation
• Multi-angle rear view camera with dynamic guidelines
• One-touch turn signals
• Wireless charging
• Hill Start Assist
• Auto high beam
• Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC)
• Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS)
• Honda LaneWatch blind spot display
• Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS)
• Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD)
• Forward Collision Warning (FCW) system
• Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS)
• Lane Departure Warning (LDW) system
• Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) system
• Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) with Traction Control