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Showing posts with label Honda Accord Crosstour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Honda Accord Crosstour. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Honda has earned its best ranking, at 2nd place in a recent J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study for 2011. Honda led the industry having 7 models earn the top initial quality spots including the Honda Accord and Honda Civic. Honda's premium brand, Acura was next in line, topping out at 3rd place. This is the first time since 2002 that an automaker has won to the amount 7 1st place awards out of 11 models. Honda received 2nd overall but 1st among non-luxury brands.
Honda's Ridgeline earned the highest in the truck category while the Odyssey improved upon its initial quality score from last year's model. The Element and the CR-V earned 1st and 2nd place respectively while the mid-size crossover Accord Crosstour also earned the top initial quality. The Honda Fit and Honda Insight joined the list as well.
The Initial Quality Study surveys new car buyers to measure the initial quality of new vehicles after the first 90 days of ownership, it is recognized as a measure of vehicle quality and owner satisfaction. The study recognized Honda's Indiana, Ohio and Japan plants for superior manufacturing quality.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Honda has two similarly sized wagons, an AWD-optioned Honda Crosstour and a luxurious Acura TSX. The Crosstour drives very nice and handles extremely well, thanks to its transmission revisions and its 273hp engine. Now the Acura TSX certainly looks better and does have slightly more room. Pricing-wise, the Crosstour is very expensive and the TSX Wagon is priced well. And Honda is set to introduce a lower-cost 4-cylinder Crosstour priced at around $27 000 US. So which one would you choose? The Crosstour from Honda or the TSX Wagon from Acura?
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Guess what? The Accord Crosstour has found a market in Russia! As a result, Honda's Ohio plant is modifying the current Crosstour to meet the standards in Russia. The Crosstour fits into the luxury vehicle category in Russia and will receive additional luxury features and modifications to fit the market.
Crosstours going to Russia will have a standard front ashtray and lighter in the center console and an ashtray and lighter for the rear passengers. Heated rear seats, burled walnut interior trim, paddle shifters and a rearview camera in the rearview mirror will grace the Russian model. American models will not be getting these features in the timebeing. A headlight washer feature that sprays washer fluid at high pressure will also be installed along with turn signals on the outside mirrors. Oval-shaped exhaust finishers as well as fog light rear reflectors and a tow-hook will be added to the rear of the Russian Crosstour.
The Crosstour is set to go on on sale in Russia later this summer.
Friday, February 4, 2011
More to come ...
Friday, January 21, 2011
"As I drive along pleasantly in the 2011 Honda Accord Crosstour, I find myself musing about how the initial proposal may have gone.
Designer guy: You know what we should do? We should totally take the Accord, hack off the back end, add a hatch, but still make it kinda big and kinda expensive and not at all like other hatchbacks. Not really a wagon, exactly, but like a wagon. Not an SUV, obviously, but for SUV people who don’t really want an SUV. You know?
Executive: Um. OK."
For more on the review, visit their website @ http://www.autonet.ca/autos/search/testdrives/2011/01/07/16797836-autonet.html
Friday, January 7, 2011
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Known for its lackluster start and its infamous Facebook criticism, Honda's introduction of the Accord Crosstour hasn't exactly been a good get-up and go. And neither has been sales. But despite that, Honda says it will stick with the Crosstour model in its Accord line-up for some time to come. The automaker hasn't yet ready to call it a disappointment. Year-to-date sales of the Crosstour is pegged at close to 26,000, and while it is not far from Honda's projected 2010 sales at 30,000 (originally 35,000), the Crosstour will not be able to make that mark.
Honda spokesman, Chuck Schifsky says, "It's a work in progress, we're not done yet in terms of building brand awareness."
Director of Industry Analysis at AutoPacific Ed Kim says that considering the obstacles the Crosstour has faced, being the economy, move towards smaller vehicles, the design of the Crosstour and the tall butch wagon stance, it has done okay calling it a mild success. Its association with the Accord brandname and the platform has also helped its sales.
Canadian sales have been dismal at the start of the year and they are ending up between below average as the lack of a cheaper 4-cylinder option (starts around $34-35000 in Canada) have all but hindered sales possibilities for the Crosstour in Canada.
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