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Curbside Classic: 1995 Ford Taurus – Are You Not Entertained?
Posted on August 30, 2024 | 68 Comments(first posted 11/13/2012) As part of my post-Sandy survey of the (non-)damage to my hometown, I was assigned to Older Relative Patrol by my Dad. (In truth, that was […] -
Used Car Lot Walk & Talk: Humming An Ocean Lyriq During The Solstice
Posted on May 15, 2024 | 36 CommentsHave we ever done a Walk & Talk featuring a late model used car lot? If not, today is your lucky day! All these pictures were taken Sunday, May 5, […] -
COAL: 1980 Honda Accord Hatchback — Oil and Water
Posted on March 6, 2024 | 42 CommentsFrom the beginning, it was obvious that there was going to be a problem. Not a mechanical problem, as the above COAL title might imply, but a philosophical one. Following […] -
COAL: 1988 Honda Accord LX – Chapter 13, How I Married A Keeper Twice In One Day
Posted on October 9, 2022 | 52 CommentsIn December of 1988 I got a call from a law school classmate. Karl and his wife wanted to have me over for dinner one evening. “Oh, would it be […] -
Curbside Classic: 1983 Honda Accord – Honda Revolutionizes The US Industry, Again
Posted on March 5, 2022 | 55 Comments(first posted 3/14/2011) If it wasn’t enough to build The Most Revolutionary Small Car In America (1973 Civic) And The Most Influential Modern Car In America, (1976 Accord), in 1982, […] -
Curbside Classic: 1976 Honda Accord – Modern Architecture
Posted on November 3, 2020 | 105 Comments(first posted 9/15/2011) The traditional automotive architecture: front engine; rear wheel drive. It was once as ubiquitous as brick buildings are in some parts of the country. The 1976 […] -
Curbside Classic: 1986-1989 Honda Accord – Ignoring The Future In Favor Of The Present
Posted on February 3, 2020 | 86 Comments(first posted 1/18/2014) The 1980s are not remembered as a time of subtlety, and after nearly fifteen years characterized by social consciousness and morality, overindulgence was back in. It usually […] -
COAL: 1985 Honda Accord LX – My First Grown Up Car
Posted on November 30, 2019 | 14 CommentsI graduated college in October 1985, and moved back to California for my first “real” job. As the Skylark I owned was sold on graduation day in Phoenix, I arrived […] -
Junkyard Classic: 1993 Honda Accord EX Wagon – American All-Star
Posted on September 29, 2019 | 49 CommentsDuring Honda’s fourth generation of Accord, they finally released a wagon version. Built exclusively in Ohio and from there exported back to Japan as well as to Europe (along with […] -
QOTD: What Cars Have You Married?
Posted on September 16, 2019 | 53 CommentsI have bought many cars over the years, but I only married one. There is a difference. -
Borrowed Car Review: 2018 Honda Accord EX – Debbie Downer Drives the Best
Posted on August 19, 2019 | 101 CommentsI’m a bit of a contrarian by nature. I’ll propose counterpoints just for the exercise of it, and by default I am skeptical of trends for reasons inexplicable even to […] -
Junkyard Classic: 1982 Honda Accord LX – I May Be The Only Person Who Ever Got Stung By An Accord
Posted on July 30, 2019 | 43 CommentsAlright, I didn’t actually get stung by the car itself, I was stung by one of the wasps that were building a nest inside the passenger door and that I […] -
COAL: 1990 Honda Accord EX – My First Car
Posted on April 27, 2019 | 31 Comments(welcome long-time CC reader/commenter Kyree Williams who starts a new Saturday COAL series starts today) The humble Accord actually started off as my mother’s daily driver. She’d just totaled […] -
Curbside Classic: 1984 Honda Accord – The Canary in the Coal Mine for the Traditional American Sedan
Posted on March 2, 2019 | 79 Comments(first posted 3/8/2014) It was with the second generation that Honda’s Accord began to take a toehold in the Midwest. At the time, there was a lot more “Buy ‘Murican” […] -
QOTD: What’s the Most Expensive Car You’ve Owned?
Posted on March 18, 2015 | 97 CommentsIf the used car market has taught us anything is that cheap-to-buy doesn’t mean that it’ll be cheap to run. Or to put it in lore “There’s nothing more expensive […]