2016 Accord EX-L Coupe V6 – six MT Honda’s unsung spectacle car, Torque News
2016 Accord EX-L Coupe V6 – six MT Honda’s unsung spectacle car
You don’t read or hear much about them, and they won’t be featured in a Honda car commercial — or included in an incentive clearance sale anytime soon if ever. None the less, two thousand sixteen Accord EX-L V6, MT 6-speed may be Honda’s best kept affordable spectacle secret. Looking to the numbers, it may outperform the legendary Civic Si.
This Accord is Honda’s unsung drive spectacle car
I’ve driven every car in the Honda and Acura line up, except one. That all switches this week with the delivery of a San Marino Crimson on black leather interior two thousand sixteen Honda Accord EX-L V6 – six MT(manual transmission) coupe. This car is naked bone by Honda tech standards comes back me to my basic driving roots–manual shifting.
Honda Accord Coupe just happens to be my beloved individual driver in the Honda lineup. Torque News has recorded much seat time in the two thousand sixteen Accord Coupe Touring, and Sport — both suggesting measurable spectacle and features as advertised — capable, comfy enough and affordable. But for me, they were lacking just a bit of ‘punch” when it came to live-on-demand acceleration and torque. I, like most of my readers wished more! We just found it.
Spanking paddle shifting is superb, but for this control crank, bring me a stick shift
As I sit here writing this post I recognize a slight stiffness in my neck and lower back. I just spent three days in the seat of a coupe that readily prevents a Civic Si-like power and rail practice in a larger platform of greater interior convenience, styling flash, and grown-up split personality business/sport coupe sensibility.
2016 Accord Coupe catches the eye and then the imagination — it’s an exceptionally good looking car, Honda style, with little to no active safety features, navigation or 30+ MPG fuel economy ratings. At it’s essence, this is the driving man or woman’s car, sporty, crimson car flashy and just a bit bare-bones gritty.
278 horsepower @6200 rpm/ two hundred fifty one lb-ft torque @5300 rpm
Numbers are just numbers. It’s how the horsepower and torque is transferred to the driveline that makes the spectacle difference in Honda’s unsung spectacle coupe. While not as fuel efficient as the CVT, or 6-speed automatic transmission tooled Accord, there’s just something about holding a gear via a manual transmission, finessing a shift via a foot activated clutch, and up-shifting out of a swift uphill sweep — this car is very capable.
And then there’s the harass tone of Honda’s Earth Fantasies ™ i-VTEC V6
I can’t overstate how well this engine performs under real-world driving conditions. The Three.Five liter, twenty four valve, single overhead cam, i-VTEC 6-cylinder gasoline engine produces on-tap torque via Honda’s Drive by Wire ™ promoted throttle figure. Don’t like manual transmissions, check this out.
Yes, we know that this Accord is not the highest horsepower or torque producer in the midsize sport-coupe segment. Yet when you’re behind the wheel, throwing this Accord through the gears it comes on like a rocket, I have the sore neck and back to prove it.
This V6 Accord as tooled weighs in at a mere three thousand three hundred ninety seven lb, just four hundred twenty lbs more than Civic turbo CVT
Albeit not turbocharged, this by hand shifted coupe drives as however supercharged. There is no lack of torque noted, acceleration and engine response is top of class.
As to fuel economy: While not segment setting, does come in at eighteen city/ twenty eight Hwy — very acceptable MPG for what I consider to be a spectacle coupe. Sending torque to the pavement is a close ratio manufactured in Japan six speed manual transmission, front wheel drive, limited slip differential.
Nice treating, decent sure-track rail
We find anti sway bars front and rear, 4-wheel disc brakes, twelve inch ventilated in the front, electronic assisted rack and pinion steering, a non compromised (rock hard but not stiff) rail, a reasonably quiet cabin, dual harass, nineteen inch alloy rims, Michelin all weather spectacle tires and more.
As with all front wheel drive vehicles two thousand sixteen Honda Accord is just a bit nose powerful while braking hard into a turn or downhill sweep. This Accord will pull a bit to the right when accelerating hard off of a light. I did break traction more than once; actually, that may be part of the charm of this spectacle Accord.
Nice interior albeit a bit spartan
I truly love the flowing, uncluttered interior of Honda’s least mentioned Accord suggesting. The power adjusted and cooled driver’s seat in or EX-L is covered in glove soft black leather. A bit on the rock hard side for me, yet not overly aggressively bolstered. Gaining access to rear folding bench(access to the trunk) is effortless, thanks to a very broad side door and easy-slide one touch front passenger bucket seat.
2016 Accord EX-L Coupe V6 – six MT Honda’s unsung spectacle car, Torque News
2016 Accord EX-L Coupe V6 – six MT Honda’s unsung spectacle car
You don’t read or hear much about them, and they won’t be featured in a Honda car commercial — or included in an incentive clearance sale anytime soon if ever. None the less, two thousand sixteen Accord EX-L V6, MT 6-speed may be Honda’s best kept affordable spectacle secret. Looking to the numbers, it may outperform the legendary Civic Si.
This Accord is Honda’s unsung drive spectacle car
I’ve driven every car in the Honda and Acura line up, except one. That all switches this week with the delivery of a San Marino Crimson on black leather interior two thousand sixteen Honda Accord EX-L V6 – six MT(manual transmission) coupe. This car is naked bone by Honda tech standards comebacks me to my basic driving roots–manual shifting.
Honda Accord Coupe just happens to be my beloved individual driver in the Honda lineup. Torque News has recorded much seat time in the two thousand sixteen Accord Coupe Touring, and Sport — both suggesting measurable spectacle and features as advertised — capable, comfy enough and affordable. But for me, they were lacking just a bit of ‘punch” when it came to live-on-demand acceleration and torque. I, like most of my readers desired more! We just found it.
Spanking paddle shifting is superb, but for this control pervert, bring me a stick shift
As I sit here writing this post I recognize a slight stiffness in my neck and lower back. I just spent three days in the seat of a coupe that readily prevents a Civic Si-like power and rail practice in a larger platform of greater interior convenience, styling flash, and grown-up split personality business/sport coupe sensibility.
2016 Accord Coupe catches the eye and then the imagination — it’s an exceptionally good looking car, Honda style, with little to no active safety features, navigation or 30+ MPG fuel economy ratings. At it’s essence, this is the driving man or woman’s car, sporty, crimson car flashy and just a bit bare-bones gritty.
278 horsepower @6200 rpm/ two hundred fifty one lb-ft torque @5300 rpm
Numbers are just numbers. It’s how the horsepower and torque is transferred to the driveline that makes the spectacle difference in Honda’s unsung spectacle coupe. While not as fuel efficient as the CVT, or 6-speed automatic transmission tooled Accord, there’s just something about holding a gear via a manual transmission, finessing a shift via a foot activated clutch, and up-shifting out of a prompt uphill sweep — this car is very capable.
And then there’s the harass tone of Honda’s Earth Fantasies ™ i-VTEC V6
I can’t overstate how well this engine performs under real-world driving conditions. The Three.Five liter, twenty four valve, single overhead cam, i-VTEC 6-cylinder gasoline engine produces on-tap torque via Honda’s Drive by Wire ™ promoted throttle bod. Don’t like manual transmissions, check this out.
Yes, we know that this Accord is not the highest horsepower or torque producer in the midsize sport-coupe segment. Yet when you’re behind the wheel, throwing this Accord through the gears it comes on like a rocket, I have the sore neck and back to prove it.
This V6 Accord as tooled weighs in at a mere three thousand three hundred ninety seven lb, just four hundred twenty lbs more than Civic turbo CVT
Albeit not turbocharged, this by hand shifted coupe drives as tho’ supercharged. There is no lack of torque noted, acceleration and engine response is top of class.
As to fuel economy: While not segment setting, does come in at eighteen city/ twenty eight Hwy — very acceptable MPG for what I consider to be a spectacle coupe. Sending torque to the pavement is a close ratio manufactured in Japan six speed manual transmission, front wheel drive, limited slip differential.
Nice treating, decent sure-track rail
We find anti sway bars front and rear, 4-wheel disc brakes, twelve inch ventilated in the front, electronic assisted rack and pinion steering, a non compromised (rigid but not stiff) rail, a reasonably quiet cabin, dual harass, nineteen inch alloy rims, Michelin all weather spectacle tires and more.
As with all front wheel drive vehicles two thousand sixteen Honda Accord is just a bit nose mighty while braking hard into a turn or downhill sweep. This Accord will pull a bit to the right when accelerating hard off of a light. I did break traction more than once; actually, that may be part of the charm of this spectacle Accord.
Nice interior albeit a bit spartan
I truly love the flowing, uncluttered interior of Honda’s least mentioned Accord suggesting. The power adjusted and cooled driver’s seat in or EX-L is covered in glove soft black leather. A bit on the stiff side for me, yet not overly aggressively bolstered. Gaining access to rear folding bench(access to the trunk) is effortless, thanks to a very broad side door and easy-slide one touch front passenger bucket seat.