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Anyone remotely interested in cars cannot failed to have seen Honda's strap-line for their new Accord; "if it is difficult……it is worth doing", supposedly a quote from Mr Honda himself. I am not quite sure as to what this refers; I rather think that the difficulty lay in developing an improved car from the already very good previous one!
I feel it only fair to pre-empt this review by saying that this particular model is the exact replacement for my own car - the Honda Accord 2.2 i-CTDi Executive. Effectively this is a new car, launched, in the UK, at the Company Car in Action event which my wife and I attended a couple of months ago.
WHAT IS IT?
The Accord is a very long standing and well known model in Honda's line-up. Other model names; Carina, Cavalier, Cortina, Xantia, 80, 626 now Vectra even, have come...
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...WHAT IS IT?
The Jazz is Honda's entry into the highly contested and ever popular "supermini" market. It is a five door hatchback, a very simple range to choose from as there are no variants; saloon, convertible etc, all Jazz models therefore share the same "two box" styling. For those of you to whom it may be important, the dimensions are as follows:
Length 3845mm x Width 1878mm x Height 1525mm.
It is therefore a fairly short, yet wide and tall small car, having a tardis affect inside where it seems much larger than you would think looking at the car sitting next to the pavement.
There are any number of competitors from Japanese, Korean and European countries, probably its' most likely competition can be found in the form of the Ford Fiesta, Mitsubishi Colt, Nissan Micra and Vauxhall Corsa, all of which offer a much larger...
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Advantages: Fresh, economical, it's a Honda with legendary reliability! Disadvantages: Rear window, motorway road noise, 'plasticky' body parts
...as well for long journeys, which also opens up to be a storage box for storing stuff inside it such as milk bottles, or other tall things. Other great things about the car include being able to retract the wing mirrors with a simple press of a button when parking, the automatic light and rain sensor installed on the windscreen so that the car and automatically enable headlights and/or windscreen wipers, the panoramic glass roof which lets light in or when used at night great for star gazing, the passenger can actually set up their own preferred temperature so that if they preferred it warmer then they have that power, an integrated CD/MP3 player so you can put your favouriteMP3s onto a CD and play it on the stereo, an industry leading massive boot for storing all those lovely little things you get after shopping with the missus, Honda’s...
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