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2010 Honda Accord Crosstour First Drive – A Premium CUV
What’s in a name: SUV, minivan, station wagon, sport wagon? Maybe it’s an Accord five-door hatchback. Except that hatchbacks, despite their improved practicality vs. trunk-backed sedans, have never caught on with U.S. buyers. So Honda prefers you to see it as a crossover and named it accordingly (pun intended).
Honda’s new-for-2010 Accord-based crossover, unabashedly named Accord Crosstour. It is essentially an Accord wagon, except its rear roofline is aerodynamically sloped instead of squared off, which sacrifices some cargo room but preserves respectable backseat headroom even for six-footers. But please don’t call it that.
Is such a half-breed a car, or is it a truck? Even as some crossovers, especially the larger ones with three rows of seats, are more SUV-like, this one appears quicker to a car. As far as government classification goes, the signals are diverse: for emissions and fuel economy testing, the EPA sees it as a passenger car. For safety certification, NHTSA calls it a truck.
Honda calls it a “five-door, five-passenger premium CUV” and offers it in two models: a well-equipped EX (just over ,000, including destination) and an chic EX-L (about K). “Real-time” four-wheel drive adds ,450 and accent-activated navigation with a rear-view camera, another ,200, but both are offered on the EX-L only.
Standard on the EX are dual-zone involuntary air conditioning; 360-watt, 7-speaker audio with a 6-disc CD player; simple fold-down 60/40 split rear seats; 225/65 R17 all-season tires on alloy wheels; a power moonroof; steering-wheel audio reins; auto-off projector beam headlights; fog lights; rear privacy glass; and a hidden comes off utility box.
The EX-L adds leather-trimmed seats (heated in front), steering wheel and shift knob; memory mirrors and driver-side seat; 225/60 R18 all-season tires; auto-on/off headlights; a cargo privacy cover; a HomeLink transmitter; premium speakers and a USB audio interface.
How much of this Crosstour is Accord under its skin? Honda says roughly 60 percent of its parts are shared with the sedan, including the chassis and powertrain, the instrument panel and most of the interior. That chassis incorporates fully independent double-wishbone front and rear-multilink rear suspensions, both slightly upgraded for the taller, heavier Crosstour. Notable among those upgrades are spring back springs inside the front shocks to improve handling and reduce body roll, two-piston front brake calipers and larger rear rotors.
The only available powertrain is the Accord’s 271-hp 3.5-liter i-VTEC SOHC V-6 coupled to a five-speed involuntary transmission. This award-winning engine uses Honda’s exclusive Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) cylinder deactivation logic to enhance fuel economy by shutting down two, or at times even three, cylinders when it’s lightly loaded. The electronically controlled 5-speed involuntary is smooth but slightly less fuel-efficient than the latest 6-speeds offered by GM, Ford and others. The 2WD Crosstour is EPA-rated at a respectable 18 city/27 highway mpg and the 4WD EX-L at 17/25.
The two interior color choices are charcoal black with a black instrument panel or ivory with a two-tone (black upper, tan lower) instrument panel, both with tasteful faux wood accents. To silent the cabin, a new Active Sound Control (ASC) technology uses the audio logic to acoustically minimize engine noise. There is 25.7 cu. ft. of cargo room behind the 60/40 rear seats; and, folding them down increases the area to 54 cu. ft. Access to it is simple thanks to a large tailgate opening and a low lift-over height. Three other handy features are twin levers that promptly fold those seats flat into the floor, carpeted lids that flip over to make simple-to-clean plastic surfaces and a hidden 1.9-liter storage box with handles for simple removal.
If you’ve driven an Accord sedan, you’ll feel comfortable in a Crosstour. Honda engineers have compensated well—via specific spring rates, shocks and stabilizer bars—for its modestly increased size and the potential of added cargo weight. Unladen, it rides and handles about as well as the to some extent agile yet compliant sedan. Its brakes are suitably strong and fade-free, but its continuous-ratio steering is to some extent slower at low speeds compared to the sedan’s variable-ratio logic.
With six inches of impose a curfew clearance, this is no off-road crawler, but the available fully involuntary Real Time 4WD logic improves its terrible-weather and off-pavement capabilities by carriage power to the rear wheels when the fronts start to slip. The 5-speed involuntary can be manually shifted, and its new downshift rev-match feature smooths blue-collar downshifts.
Standard safety features include Vehicle Stability Help (VSA) electronic stability control and anti-lock brakes with electronic brake distribution and brake help. The comprehensive restraint logic includes dual-stage, multiple threshold front airbags; driver’s and front passenger’s side airbags with a passenger-side Occupant Position Detection Logic (OPDS); side curtain airbags with a rollover sensor; and active front seat head restraints.
This new 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour slides neatly between Honda’s Civic-based CR-V compact crossover and its larger, more truck-like (Accord-based) Pilot CUV and competes frankly with Toyota’s similar Camry based Venza and Nissan’s Altima-based Murano. Call it what you want but seriously is a very fascinating new entry in the increasingly crowded crossover field.
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