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the Honda Accord is one of those cars it you know it doesn't make the hair on the back of your neck stand up but I'll tell you what I can drive one of these things all day long as so many millions do little secret sauce going on here and it's a little saucy err the 2016 Accord is not a completely new car it's on the same platform as the one we've had since 2013 so the basic volumes and dimensions are all still the same but they've really revised the front and rear in particular on the outside look at the face it's much more sculpted and scowling people like angry scowling car faces for some reason out back there's a lot more accurate DNA to my eye and again more finely sculpted and muscular you've got LED tail lights on all the 16 accords and up front you've got LED headlights available now on the top line that's called the touring when I got in this 16 accord in a couple ways I wasn't sure was in a Honda first of all they've done some really smart stuff with cabin tech which to be honest they don't normally do in this case it's Android auto and car place side by side no excuses no extra cost I've got my phone cabled down here to a convenient USB data and charge port and that's that and check this out she's actually got a live web browser now not while you're driving obviously but this is normally really high-end car stuff you can pull over and watch CNET on cars but wouldn't I still have my gripes about the interface though first of all there's no volume knob yeah you got to use that rocker on the wheel or this touch thing to the left of the screen no thank you and you can get too many weirdnesses on these dual screens like having audio on one and the same thing on the other one that's a waste the overall interface though has been revised to be more elegant yet still featuring some of the cleanest largest touch buttons in the biz I like that Honda hasn't strayed too far from the playbook under the hood a 2.4 litre direct-injected inline 4 okay first thing I want you to do if you go test drive this means sixteen acordes it's coming to a stop like this cutting onto the wheel and feel the petals I find that it idle there's kind of a vibration coming through that I don't expect in a modern car that isn't exactly cheap so you got to check that out for yourself maybe I'm nuts I don't know now once you get going all that harshness kind of blows away and I'm left with a surprisingly perky 4-cylinder but my coffee might have the six when I first drove this I was impressed CVT gearbox you can hear and go into it smashing ations there that's the only choice on this EXL trim it's a good one I got to give you that you know I'm not a huge CVT buff now it's not too hard to plumb this engine and find its breathless spots so it's not a real super powerful engine but in everyday driving you're not gonna notice them the big tech ticket on the road is Honda sensing their driver assist package including collision mitigation braking which can go to a full stop forward collision warning lane departure that is active to keep you in your lane road departure mitigation which is different from lane departure it keeps you from going off the road and adaptive cruise control first time in an accord are amplitude reactive dampers that means two valves in the shocks to read the road surface based on frequency of vibration and move between the two valve sets to be either firm or compliant okay if the onion ever does a special on firstworldproblems there's a technology in this car that needs to be the cover story it's called great throat assist or something I mean just the name is onion esque what it does is it uses the electric power steering and the vehicle's various sensors to help you steer straight when you're going down one of those peak crowned roads I never knew that was fatiguing maybe I was missing something and I continue to love this Lane watch cameras one of the best cameras in the auto v' is is that one that looks down the right side right a 16 accord 4-cylinder EXL which is very high trim is little over 29,000 I'm gonna load up some sensors and that wireless charging tech but definitely move my trim up one more notch to get the navigation but more importantly the Honda sensing adaptive Drive tech that bundle for 2 grand you're stealing that all day long we're in about 32 - seen that stop for cars driven seen in style standing by now at CNET on cars.com click on the road