{"id":44730,"date":"2017-06-11T22:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T02:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44730"},"modified":"2020-08-01T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:45:44","slug":"not-sure-if-fan-of-dumping-v6s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44730","title":{"rendered":"Not sure if fan of dumping V6s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Impetus<\/a>: Honda is dumping the V6 engine from the Accord, replacing with turbo-charged four<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite its fairly vanilla existence, I\u2019ve often held the Honda Accord in relative esteem.\u00a0 The first time in my life that my family got a new car, it was a 1990 Honda Accord.\u00a0 White, naturally, as Asian people loved cars that were either white or champagne color.\u00a0 It was like the coolest event in the world back then, and the Accord seemed like a spaceship compared to the dated old Toyota Celica that it had replaced.<\/span><\/p>\n

Years later, my family ended up getting another Accord, a 1998 model.\u00a0 I remember this one, because I thought that the car was intended to be for me, but ultimately ended up with my dad absconding with it, when he was working away from home, out in Chattanooga for a few years, which led to a lot of sour grapes on my end.\u00a0 For a while, my dad drove the shit out of it before he ended up barely driving it at all, and when he traded it in a little over a year ago, the car was nearly 16 years old and never crossed the 100,000 mile mark, which for a Honda is barely half its lifespan.\u00a0 Along the way, my mom got a used 1994 Accord that she ran into the ground, but the point is that my family has had a lot of Honda Accords.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, I view the Accord as a trustworthy reliable car, in spite of its vanilla existence, and if there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned more recently, it\u2019s the de facto car of choice for Indian families; seriously, the sheer amount of Honda Accords in my apartment complex belonging to Indian families is almost an anthropological marvel.\u00a0 But the Accord is a name that people associate with affordable, safe, and decently performing, and if I were at that stage of my life where I wanted a family-friendly automobile that I\u2019d feel good about anyone driving and wouldn\u2019t be too much of a chore for me to drive myself, the Honda Accord wouldn\u2019t be the worst choice in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite the fact that my family\u2019s Accords have always been four-cylinder engines, I\u2019ve always known that they\u2019ve often been available with optional six-cylinder engines. Naturally, most people associate V6s with more fuel consumption, which is a justifiable and understandable concern, but I\u2019ve always associated V6s with more power, and to most people who have ever liked cars, more power = moar fun<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, there was a time when I viewed the 2004-2008 Honda Accord Coupe as something nearing of an attainable dream car, because they came available in this gorgeous blue<\/a> color, wasn\u2019t a sedan, had a six-cylinder engine that pushed 200+ horsepower and a six-speed manual<\/em> transmission.\u00a0 It had just about everything I was hoping to get as a next car back then, but it was also around the time in which the Honda Accord\u2019s price tag started to inflate to numbers that my 23-year old ass couldn\u2019t justify taking a risk on, especially with a car that still had a note on.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s weird to me that Honda is dumping the V6 from the Accord, and I\u2019m not entirely sure if I like the change.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019m reluctant to accept change in the first place on just about everything, so such shouldn\u2019t be that much of a surprise, but it just seems like an uncharacteristic change for Honda to go the direction of turbochargers versus their legacy of engineering naturally-aspirated motors that churned out stalwart numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the longest time, Honda\u2019s reputation was creating these marvel motors that generated huge performance numbers without the need of turbos or superchargers.\u00a0 The vaunted Integra Type-R motor that could churn out 210 horsepower from a 1.8 liter motor at 8,500 RPM, the original Honda S2000, that generated 240 ponies out of a 2.0 liter at mind-boggling 9,000 RPM. The NSX was Honda\u2019s supercar that pushed nearly 300 horsepower out of a naturally-aspirated engine that could compete with Porsches and Ferraris for a fraction of their prices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere in the modus operandi was the notion that naturally-aspirated was safer for the car, which was safer for the driver, and that ultimately, forced induction power created more emissions and was less beneficial to the environment.\u00a0 Leave the turbos and the cheap power to the Golfs, Supras, Mitsubishis and Audis, and let us make clean, reliable high-performing cars without the need for bolt-on power.\u00a0 Honda was always at the forefront of green engineering, so it\u2019s a little odd to me to see such a company-wide shift towards turbochargers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, it\u2019s 2017, and not 2000, when ridiculous turbos were slapped onto every riceboy Civic, with no regard to passing emissions tests or care for the environment in general.\u00a0 Turbos are probably more efficient, cleaner operating, and with vastly fewer of the knocks on them in general.\u00a0 I\u2019d hope they\u2019re more fuel efficient than their older counterparts, although I have to wonder if the optimal performance is still recommending premium fuel, as opposed to the lawnmower 87 that just about everyone else uses otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s still weird to hear \u201cAccord Turbo\u201d and \u201cstock\u201d in the same sentence.\u00a0 Instead of the 3.0 liter+ V6 to get some pep in the pedal, Honda appears to be putting a 2.0 liter turbo four into their premium Accords to get power and performance for.\u00a0 Hell, Honda appears to be going smaller motor across the board too, seeing as how the Civic is going with a 1.5 turbo as their default engine.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing Honda has always been lauded for was always its reliability, but it feels like they\u2019re taking a step backward by slapping turbos on all their cars.\u00a0 Inevitably, modern riceboys will be fucking with their stock turbos, trying to get moar power out of their engines, and there just feels like there\u2019s a generation of future car problems waiting to happen by going turbos across the board.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really know, but honestly, it doesn\u2019t really matter to me.\u00a0 Hondas have gotten to price points to where I don\u2019t even really consider them anymore, and the last time I was in the market for a new car, the Hondas didn\u2019t really wow or impress me as much as the competition, one of which I\u2019m still driving to this day.\u00a0 They\u2019ve coasted for decades on their reputation, and I guess competition is what\u2019s making them making radical changes like turbocharging all their shit in order to keep ahead of the curve.\u00a0 I\u2019m just not sure I like it, and don\u2019t think it\u2019s enough to pique my interest the next time I\u2019m kicking tires for a new car.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impetus: Honda is dumping the V6 engine from the Accord, replacing with turbo-charged four Despite its fairly vanilla existence, I\u2019ve often held the Honda Accord in relative esteem.\u00a0 The first time in my life that my family got a new car, it was a 1990 Honda Accord.\u00a0 White, naturally, as Asian people loved cars that … Continue reading Not sure if fan of dumping V6s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,100,129],"class_list":["post-44730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-comparison","tag-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44732,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730\/revisions\/44732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}