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2141 messages, Last post on Nov 08, 2009 at 7:08 PM
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jan 06, 2009 2:44 pm) Depends on your driving style, habits and location. I drive in heavy traffic and feel the need for the extra power almost daily. Were I in a rural or light traffic area I am sure the 4 would suit my purposes just fine. Where are you located?
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Replying to: hondalvr1 (Jan 07, 2009 3:24 am)
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jan 07, 2009 5:54 am) ...you certainly do have traffic! Last October rush hour driving: Hotel Deca - Seattle waterfront (ferry) was interesting. My Navy reunion shipmates agreed big time. Still, my 6M calc'd out at 21 mpg around your city (but south on I-5 enroute home.......would you believe 35?) ..great car. best, ez.... |
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Replying to: elroy5 (Jan 05, 2009 8:03 pm) http://www.edmunds.com/apps/vdpcontainers/do/vdp/articleId=123532/pageNumber=2
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Yes, they should have taken it in. Maybe the computer needed a reflash or something. I loved the way they blamed scraping the alloy wheels on the car's design instead of on themselves for being careless had hitting curbs!
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Actually, if you drill down and read all of the updates from the long term test, there are 45 different blog entries on the Accord. And VCM is addressed a few times. Here is one example.... http://blogs.edmunds.com/roadtests/2008/06/2008-honda-accord-ex-l-v6-econnoying.- html#more Another variable with VCM could be weather and temperature. It seems that more of the complaints regarding VCM are coming from drivers who live in parts of the country where there is colder weather(?). The Edmunds test was conducted in nice weather in California, and it's possible that VCM performs more smoothly when the climate is warmer(?). Just speculation, however.
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Replying to: cstiles (Jan 08, 2009 9:19 am) 
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jan 08, 2009 7:40 am) Sorry - have to agree with them there - the "spokes" of the wheel DO protrude further than the tires themselves and ARE susceptible to curb damage even when the tires themselves are not in contact with the curb. Bad design. These wheels are too expensive to expose them to being that easily damaged. They should be redesigned. Now if they were simply scraping the RIM of the wheel where the treadwall bead is secured to the wheel because they were too close - different story.
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Replying to: cstiles (Jan 07, 2009 8:22 pm) 1). "Wind and road noise are well isolated" - Huh? What car are they driving? 2). "The Accord is so quiet, comfortable and smooth on the road you don't get a sense of how fast you are really going" - This is so off, even by remote standards. Did they really test any of the other cars to compare? Changing the brand of tires helps some but this car is nothing but loud. The loudest Honda I've owned to date. 3). Not one mention of the VCM? Hearing a comment, either about the roughness (or smoothness) or even something related to MPG and how the VCM affected that would have been interesting. The only negative, if you will, was regarding speed times decreasing? This is not a race car. Come on Edmunds, I know you want to keep your sponsors happy but this is blatant.
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