I’m happy to notify you that the ultimate demise of the big American family sedan has been prematurely reported, as Honda has just unveiled its 11th-generation Accord. What, you’re going to tell me that’s not an American sedan because it’s a Honda? Baloney. Americans have bought more Accords than any other passenger car over the last 50 years, and the thing is built in Ohio. If that doesn’t qualify it for ultimate-American-sedan status, I don’t know what will. But as competitors have faded away as drivers increasingly turn to SUVs, Honda has bravely stayed the course and continued to sell a lot of Accords. And now they’ve shown us the newest one, the 2023 Honda Accord, and it is very heavily hybrid-flavored.A Familiar All–New Look

It’s kind of funny because the new Civic, introduced a little more than a year ago, looked heavily like the bigger Accord. We all pointed to the styling details and proportions and said “This thing looks like a baby Accord,” which wasn’t really a dig at it, more just an admiration. But after only a year of sharing showrooms and looking like siblings, the Accord has moved on. It’s longer, sleeker, lower and wider, with a longer hood and a more upright front end.
The 2023 Accord will be available in six different trim levels, representing various levels of equipment, with a few of them being specific Sport appearance themes with blacked-out trim and wheels. The front end smacks of the newest Ford Mustang redesign, while the side is fairly clean and generic — but the back end’s full-width LED taillight signature will be the distinctive look for the Accord. The overall look is lower, wider and more aggressive, cleaning up a lot of the last Accord’s more questionable and discordant design characteristics.
Updated Interior

The inside also gets a new look, and again, if you’re familiar with the Civic and new 2023 CR-V, you’ll understand what’s happened here, as the new styling successfully integrates the 2023 Accord into the corporate-family look. A mesh panel disguises the air vents and lends a neat, modern look to the instrument panel.
The new interior also incorporates some firsts for the Accord, such as a 10.2-inch digital gauge cluster that will be standard in all trim levels of the sedan. The multimedia touchscreen is a 7-inch unit with volume and tuning knobs in the LX and EX; all other trims get a massive new 12.3-inch screen with a volume knob (Honda won’t be burned on that again anytime soon) and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Google Built-In will be standard in the top Touring trim, but the 12.3-inch touchscreen can be had without it. I’m not sold on the magic of Google Built-In, as it relies on solid data connections for the car or the user’s phone to use some of the car’s voice-command functions. No data, no functions, in some cases. If you live somewhere rural or with poor data connectivity, Google Built-In can be a problem.