[Responsibility2nd]

Not many people would think this 1976 Honda Accord would be such a gamechanger. But it was. It was The Greatest 1970's car.

It changed the automotive field forever. Big unreliable gas guzzling V8 American cars began to decline when the Accord was introduced. US manufacturers have been trying to play catch up with the Accord ever since.

[FreedomPoster]

I had the 4-door sedan version of that car. Compared to American cars of that era, its was a gem. I didn’t have a car with a better paint job until I got a 99 Audi A6.

[tet68]

Im still driving my mom’s 91 Accord. She used to have people
come up to her all the time and want to know if she wanted
to sell it.

I came back from Nam in 69 after an extended tour and
dreamed about buying a new car all that time
but the banks wouldn’t
make me a loan saying that since I was in the service
I would just loan it to one of my friends and he would
wreck it. I bought a used MGB and never in my life have
I owned a new car. The Accord broke the timing belt at
150,000 miles so had to do some top end work but it’s
still going just fine.

[vikingd00d]

>>Big unreliable gas guzzling V8 American cars began to decline when the Accord was introduced.

The oil embargo in the mid/late ‘70s was the bigger influence on the death of the gas guzzlers. When you could only gas up every other day and had to wait 5 hours in line to do that, econo-boxes had greater appeal.

[nicollo]

Not many people would think this 1976 Honda Accord would be such a gamechanger. But it was. It was The Greatest 1970's car.

I wrote an article for Automobile Quarterly making that claim for the '72 Civic as the greatest car of the 70s. I got no push-back from the editors or readers. It was an engineering and marketing triumph that opened the way for the Accord, which, I agree with you, was a tremendous automobile and the best designed and made car of the decade (and the 80s, likely). Nevertheless, the Civic was the first truly quality economy car since the Model T, and it was a breakthrough in so many dimensions (albeit small), especially with the introduction of the CVCC engine.

(Ironically, like the Model T, the Civic was preceded by a less successful, but important "Model N")

[drwoof]

Agreed.

[Captain Peter Blood]

And Burgess Meredith did the voice work for Honda Ads on TV.

[ops33]

First of 8 Hondas I’ve owned. Took it to Germany when I was transferred there, what a thrill driving it on the autobahn with the Mercedes, BMWs, Audis, etc.