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In the domestic medium-sized car field, Accord has been best-selling for many years, both the popularity of the car market and the number of cars have a very high popularity. At present, the Accord model on sale in China is the tenth generation of mid-term modified products, although the car is at the end of the product period, but its sales performance is still very strong. According to new car traffic insurance data, Honda Accord sold 223200 vehicles in 2022, an increase of 12.37% over last year, ranking second in the domestic midsize car list, second only to the Camry. By contrast, Toyota Camry sells 250800 vehicles, and the competition between the two is fierce.

GAC Honda's new generation of Accord-free cars has been exposed online after it was declared by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is expected to be officially unveiled at the Shanghai auto show, which opens in April, or go on sale in the first half of this year.

Combined with the declaration map and the latest non-fake real car map, the new car is built in a new design language, which is younger and more fashionable as a whole. In terms of subdivision, the front face of the new car is designed with a flat hexagonal forward grille, and the interior of the grille is decorated with bright black dense spoke elements, and forms an integrated shape with the headlights designed on both sides to lengthen the visual width of the front face. In addition, the front of the new car is surrounded by a through-type heat dissipation and ventilation opening design, with chrome-plated decorative strips on both sides, which makes it look more athletic and younger as a whole. In the rear part, the new car adopts the popular through-type taillight group, and optimizes and upgrades the internal details of the lamp group, using a dual-format design, with the Honda LOGO logo in the center of the lamp group to increase recognition. The encirclement size under the new car is not large, the exhaust adopts hidden bilateral layout, and the small size "duck tail" on the rear cover is also retained, the overall visual effect is very layered.

The side of the body, as shown in the previous declaration, shows that the bottom of the C-column of the new car is designed with sharp corners, and the area of the triangular window behind the C-pillar is reduced, so that the roof becomes larger from the sliding angle behind the B-pillar and has a more sedan running style. In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4980/1860/1450mm and the wheelbase is 2830mm. As a comparison, the domestic Accord currently on sale is 4906/1862/1449mm in length, width and height, and 2830mm in wheelbase. By contrast, the length of the new car has increased by 74mm, but the wheelbase is consistent with the current model.

In the interior part, the official has not disclosed the interior information, and it is expected that the new car will be consistent with the overseas version. As a reference, the overseas version basically refers to the design style of the new generation Civic and CR-V. It is expected that the new car will be equipped with penetrating air conditioning outlet and embedded full liquid crystal instrument, and the central control screen will adopt suspended layout.

In terms of power, the new car will be equipped with fuel version and plug-in hybrid version, of which the 1.5T turbocharged engine model L15CH/L15CJ has a maximum power of 141kW, a peak torque of 260Nm and a transmission system that matches the CVT continuously variable transmission. In addition, the gas-electric hybrid model will be equipped with a hybrid system composed of 2.0L naturally aspirated engine and motor, with a maximum power of 109kW and a peak power of 135kW, matched with an E-CVT gearbox.

Accord is a classic Honda model with a history of 38 years. The domestic market dates back to 1994, when the fifth generation Honda Accord was imported into China, and a new model with 2.2L engine and leather seats was added. This generation of Accord officially filled the gap in the market of Honda in medium-sized cars.

On July 1, 1998, Guangzhou Automobile Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. (formerly Guangzhou Honda Automobile Co., Ltd.) was formally established as a joint venture company jointly funded by Guangzhou Automobile Group and Honda Technology Research Industrial Co., Ltd., each holding 50% of the shares. The term of cooperation is 30 years. The following year, the sixth generation Accord was introduced into domestic production by GAC Honda and became the first domestic model under GAC Honda, which has been produced for three years. Up to now, the development of Accord has gone through ten updating iterations, among which the tenth generation Accord was listed in China on April 16, 2018, and the tenth generation mid-term modified model was launched on October 9, 2021, with a price of 16.98-259800 yuan. According to the replacement cycle of 5-6 years, the above new generation Accord is the eleventh generation of the car system.

Judging from the new-generation Accord real car map, although people have different comments on the design of the new car, it is not bad on the whole, and the whole is more athletic. It is expected that the new car will continue to compete with Toyota Camry (17.98-269800 yuan) and Nissan Teana (17.98-269800 yuan) after its launch.

According to the latest figures, Honda Accord led Toyota Camry to become the top seller of medium-sized cars with sales of 14595 vehicles in January 2023, while Toyota Camry ranked second with sales of 14396 vehicles, just 198 vehicles behind Accord. From the sales data analysis, Honda Accord and Toyota Camry market competition is very fierce, as for Accord follow-up performance of the car market can lead Camry, we might as well wait and see.

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