23 Years In A Row: Honda Accord Is A 2021 Car And Driver 10 Best Winner
November 24 2020, Centennial Honda
No other vehicle comes close. Year after year after year, the Honda Accord gets the nod from Car And Driver's 10 Best Selection committee.
Being selected as a Car And Driver 10 Best award winner isn't an easy task to accomplish just once. Out of hundreds of new vehicles available today, only 10 are selected by Car And Driver. Yet the Honda Accord has been a 10 Best Winner 23 years in a row, a streak that dates back to 1999. Moreover, the Accord has earned 35 Car And Driver 10 Best awards during the nameplate's illustrious history, a record that puts the Accord well ahead of every other vehicle. No other vehicle even comes close – the Accord has won 52% more often than the next most frequent winner.
Earning the 10 Best award from Car And Driver doesn't just mean the Accord is the best midsize sedan on the market today. (Although it is.) It doesn't just mean the Accord is an exceptional choice among the newest vehicles on sale. (It is that, too.) To win in 10 Best, Car And Driver forces every vehicle to compete with every other vehicle. That includes the prior year's winners, every new or significantly revised vehicle, and every vehicle under the USD $90,000 price barrier.
Car And Driver began this year's 10 Best testing festivities with 57 vehicles. That includes the new Acura TLX, Audi A6 Allroad, BMW 228i, Cadillac CT5, Genesis G80, Lexus IS350, Mercedes-AMG A35, Toyota Camry TRD, and the new Hyundai Sonata. The Honda Accord came out ahead of them all.
Why?
- • "It's a reasonably priced, generously sized four-door that offers the refinement of a luxury car, the precise moves of an upmarket sedan, and the sensibility of, well, a Honda."
- • "The Accord is as good as it has ever been."
- • "Even a fully loaded Accord, which is as well equipped as many BMWs and Audis, is [$40,405]. That's less than the average price of a new vehicle."
- • "The Accord is so good – with or without a stick – that we still think one should be parked in just about every driveway in America."
Or, we would say, every driveway in Prince Edward Island.
