Car and Driver magazine wasn't so impressed. Its editors said the car looked too much like a family sedan. Inside the Accord coupe, I tend to agree with my colleagues at Car and Driver. The interior, while well designed in terms of putting all the controls within reach of the driver and making all the gauges big and legible, is somewhat Spartan. The cloth bucket seats are comfortable and supportive, and an eight-way power adjustor is standard on the driver's side.
Access is typical for a coupe, meaning it's hard to look dignified while getting in or getting out.
This is due in part to the outstanding build quality common to Hondas, and the exceptionally rigid chassis. Honda says it expects to sell as many as 80,000 Accord coupes, which would be about 20 percent of the entire Accord output from the Marysville, Ohio, plant. It will have to compete with a new crop of medium-priced coupes, as automakers rediscover this segment. Mercury has its new Cougar, which is based on the Contour and Mystique sedan chassis, and Toyota has the Solara, which is based on the Camry. In terms of price, the Accord is toward the upper end of that group, though not the most expensive.