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vexor
10-21-2005, 09:00 PM
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TOKYO — Visitors to the international auto show here are getting a sneak preview of the next-generation Honda Accord for Japan and Europe — and the next Acura TSX for North America.

The Honda Sports 4 concept sedan now is described by company insiders as an accurate precursor of the redesigned Accord. The new Accord will go into production in mid-2007 in Japan and will be sold in Europe and China. North American customers, however, will get a different design about the same time to replace the Ohio-built Accord.

Honda sources told Inside Line the Sports 4 also foretells the next-generation Acura TSX, which will be based once again on the European Accord and is expected in U.S. dealerships in spring 2008.

The 2008 TSX is rumored to get a high-performance, dual-overhead-cam, 2.2-liter, four-cylinder engine — perhaps a version of the 237-horsepower unit that powers the S2000 roadster — mated to a six- or seven-speed gearbox.
-Inside Line News (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/NewsLanding)
ae86_16v
10-21-2005, 09:12 PM
I like the lines of the car, but I definitely don't like the headlights and taillights.

I like the current one more :) .
Sir_GT
10-22-2005, 04:23 AM
It looks like a Mazda
stracing
10-22-2005, 04:47 AM
if they make that, that'll be the family car
racer_f50
10-22-2005, 05:11 AM
looks decent, but that front grill where the honda badge is doesn't really fit the car. And those rear lights need some restyling. I guess they're just trying to be creative, but let's see what really makes it to prototype form.
T-Bird
10-22-2005, 09:37 AM
instead of the S2000 motor they should use the Turbo Four from the new RDX in it.
saadie
10-22-2005, 09:44 AM
donno why .. but it seems that they were really inspired by the new vantage .. :roll:
ferrarif1fan89
10-22-2005, 09:47 AM
i like everything, except for the grill and the exhaust outlets. the tailights look theyvee been lifted from the new civic coupe.
martin100
10-22-2005, 09:49 AM
Don´t really like it. Front and tail lights looks like crap :?
T-Bird
10-22-2005, 09:59 AM
what else I find weird is we are getting a redesigned TSX for 2006 from what they told us at work and they are trying to move all the older ones.
TransAm
10-22-2005, 10:08 AM
what else I find weird is we are getting a redesigned TSX for 2006 from what they told us at work and they are trying to move all the older ones.

redesigned = facelifted I reckon :wink:


edit: It would have to be a quite-redesigned version of the S2000 motor, if they used that, because the TSX/Accord will be FWD, and the S2000 crank rotates turns the wrong way for a FWD set up.

I don't understand the reasons but it is something I read on a Honda forum where some guy suggested dropping an S2k motor into a Civic.
homemade wrx
10-22-2005, 08:27 PM
looking at all the new cars coming out there are all starting to turn into the basic aero tear drop shape...better gas mileage/top speed but slowly rounding out the shapes of cars...I don't much care for the lines
AlienDB7
10-22-2005, 10:28 PM
Kinda ugly, looks like the love child between the civic and the new mitsu eclipse... and gained extra pound :x