Honda
Accord
The Honda Accord is a series of compact,
mid-size and full-size automobiles manufactured
by Honda since 1976, and sold in a majority of automotive
markets throughout the world.
In 1982, the Accord — which had always been
manufactured in Sayama, Japan — became the
first Japanese car to be produced in the United
States when production commenced in Marysville,
Ohio at Honda's Marysville Auto Plant. In addition,
the Accord is, or has been, produced in Nelson,
New Zealand, Swindon, England, Guangzhou, China
and Ayutthaya, Thailand. The Accord has achieved
considerable success, especially in the United States,
where it was the best-selling Japanese car for fifteen
years (1982–97), topping its class in sales
in 1991 and 2001, with around ten million vehicles
sold.[2] Numerous road tests, past and present,
rate the Accord as one of the world's most reliable
vehicles.
Since initiation, Honda has offered several different
car body styles and versions of the Accord, and
often vehicles marketed under the Accord nameplate
concurrently in different regions differ quite substantially.
It debuted in 1976 as a compact hatchback, though
this style only lasted through 1981, as the line-up
was expanded to include a sedan, coupé, and
wagon. By the Accord's sixth generation in the 1990s,
it evolved into an intermediate vehicle, with one
basic platform but with different bodies and proportions
to increase its competitiveness against its rivals
in different international markets. For the current
generation of the Accord released for the North
American market in 2008, Honda has again chosen
to move the model further up-scale and increase
its size.
(Source: Wikipedia.org)
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