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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

I like the lines of the car, but I definitely don't like the headlights and taillights.

I like the current one more :) .

It looks like a Mazda

if they make that, that'll be the family car

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.

instead of the S2000 motor they should use the Turbo Four from the new RDX in it.

donno why .. but it seems that they were really inspired by the new vantage .. :roll:

i like everything, except for the grill and the exhaust outlets. the tailights look theyvee been lifted from the new civic coupe.

Don´t really like it. Front and tail lights looks like crap :?

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.

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Originally Posted by T-Bird

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.

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

Kinda ugly, looks like the love child between the civic and the new mitsu eclipse... and gained extra pound :x