The Honda Accord Celebrates Its 36th Car And Driver 10Best Win

The Honda Accord is celebrating yet another Car and Driver 10Best win!

Since the inception of Car and Driver’s prestigious awards in 1983, the Accord has only missed making the cut in four of the award’s forty total years. With an unprecedented 36 10Best wins now under its belt, the Honda Accord has blown past the competition as the most-awarded vehicle in Car and Driver 10Best history - by a wide margin. 

The sleek sedan’s legendary track record has also played a key role in helping Honda become the winningest brand in the history of Car and Driver’s annual awards. At least one Honda has earned a spot on their coveted list since 1983, landing them with an astonishing 66 total awards. 

Now, we know what you might be thinking. 66 awards is, well, a lot. It can’t be that hard to make the cut, can it? We’ll let you be the judge. 

For two full weeks, nominees are put to the test against over 300 new cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans, along with last year’s winners, to find the 10 vehicles priced below $90,000 USD that Car and Driver believes deliver the most value and a great driving experience. 

“After driving, probing, climbing into third rows, opening trunks, learning infotainment systems, doing instrumented testing, and taking diligent notes, we score each vehicle on a 100-point scale. The cars and trucks that emerge all have something unique, a special power that makes them better than the rest.” - Car and Driver

So what did the industry-leading automotive experts say put the 2022 Honda Accord ahead of the competition? Let’s find out. 

"Year after year we find ourselves recommending the Honda Accord to friends and family looking for a fun-to-drive, safe and fuel-efficient sedan," said Eddie Alterman, Chief Brand Officer of Car and Driver. "Refined, dynamically engaging and affordable, the 2022 Honda Accord is the benchmark of the midsize sedan class.”

Car and Driver’s Senior Editor, Elana Scherr, says “Honda designed a package that recognizes the needs of the average driver, meets them, and then goes after the desires of the enthusiast.” Scherr goes on to say the Accord “remains the undercover sports sedan—there's soul beneath that four-door exterior.”

While there wasn’t much that Honda could do to improve its already impressive family sedan, the most significant changes come to its hybrid model, where Honda has added a new Sport trim to its lineup to replace the EX version. The latest Accord boasts best-in-class cargo capacity, while it’s hybrid line offers best-in-class power, coming in at 212 horsepower. 

Every new Accord comes standard equipped with the Honda Sensing® suite of safety and driver-assistive technologies, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Audio connectivity, a 7” Driver Information Interface display, and even it’s most powerful 2.0T model get a healthy 9.1L/100 kilometers, so, as Car and Driver puts it, “passing by gas stations can be added to the Accord's long list of strengths.”