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Waldo
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Nice rendering, Neal, but I think you may have missed the roof line change a little. Comparing your drawing with the "spy photo", I see a longer, more sweeping downward arc that starts right behind (maybe six inches) the B pillar, and ends a little closer to the trailing edge of the trunk. On your drawing (and the 8th gen Accord) there is a point right above the rear door window break where the roof starts a more rapid down curve. The effect of this change is to give the new Accord a more aggressive roof line a little like the "four door coupes" such as VW and MB have done with some models.
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NealX
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You might by surprised by how many times I actually did extend and pull back that area - and it appears I could have gone further still! It does go back much more than the original, though even as I look from image to image it's hard to tell that much of a difference.
I think the very first image from January splits the difference visually, so it's not east to see the change from the current 2012 car to my final 2013 image.
Last edited by NealX on 06-03-2012 11:51
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Waldo
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I can tell you've put a lot of work on the design.
My one concern is that they have moved the rear glass so far back that they have compromised the trunk opening. Remember back when that happened in the 1994 model? I had one of those Accords, and you could not get many common consumer items into the trunk (like large suitcases, and boxes for TV's and Weber BBQ's, all of which fit fine in a Camry or Taurus). Honda spend a fortune on the 1996 MMC fixing this. Almost every piece of sheet metal and glass from the B pillar back was reshaped to increase the size of the trunk opening.
So far, the pieces we've seen give rise to optimism. Even looking at the outline of the tail lights (under the pattern camo), there appears to be a unity of design that was completely lacking in the 8th gen Accord. It was not ugly, but the details were disjointed, and even cheap looking.
The last time the Accord had a cohesive design was the 1998-2000 6th gen.
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Waldo wrote:
I can tell you've put a lot of work on the design.
My one concern is that they have moved the rear glass so far back that they have compromised the trunk opening. Remember back when that happened in the 1994 model? I had one of those Accords, and you could not get many common consumer items into the trunk (like large suitcases, and boxes for TV's and Weber BBQ's, all of which fit fine in a Camry or Taurus). Honda spend a fortune on the 1996 MMC fixing this. Almost every piece of sheet metal and glass from the B pillar back was reshaped to increase the size of the trunk opening.
So far, the pieces we've seen give rise to optimism. Even looking at the outline of the tail lights (under the pattern camo), there appears to be a unity of design that was completely lacking in the 8th gen Accord. It was not ugly, but the details were disjointed, and even cheap looking.
The last time the Accord had a cohesive design was the 1998-2000 6th gen.
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Bringing the rear glass back compromises the trunk opening?
Why hasn't this happened with the Sonata, or the Optima?
Both are very coupe-like, with rather short trunk openings, and I haven't heard of anyone having difficulty with the placing objects into the trunk.
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