Thursday, December 10, 2015

Honda Accord vs Toyota Camry: Which one is better?

Which one do I buy -Honda Accord or Toyota Camry? I have to say that the Honda Accord is really a good car. There are too many good attributes that I can talk about the car. 
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Toyota Camry

#First is the handling. With its 18 inch  tires, the handling of the car is much better. I feel driving the Accord in twisted roads is much easier  than in Toyota Camry although the latter is no slouch either, The steering wheel of the Accord is much sharper and easy to handle. It's more of a driver's car than the Camry. The Camry is nice for chauffeur driven.  Around the sharp corners of Putrajaya , capital of Malaysia, I would rather be driving the Accord  than in the Camry .

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Honda Accord
# Second,  the Accord looks very much prettier than the Camry . The Accord looks like your polished girlfriend with nice sexy attire complete with beautiful and matching accessories. The body of the Accord is very well proportioned  with the right curves at the right places. The front end  of the Accord is so nicely protruding in the right directions and and so curvaceous and give the shade of a understated luxury. The Camry however looks very mature with a very flat back with no right curves and oozes nothing special. She could look like you wife of 30 years. You don't give a second look at  the Camry and it just blends well with cars of previous generations.You would not want any  association  with the looks of the Camry. It's so boring and sometimes irritating.

# Third -the sense of a sturdy body of the Accord. I feel that body the structure  of the Accord is more sturdy and durable. I don't get that  sense of solidity in the Camry, The Camry only gives a smooth ride but without the feeling of sturdiness that you would associate with Toyota in general and Camry specifically. You can hear the "thud" sound when you drive the Accord but the Camry just feel a bit flimsy. The doors in the Accord also are quite heavy and they shut with German or teutonic like sound unlike in the Camry, Only the rear doors sound a little solid in the Camry. The Accord has improved much in terms of solidity. I think the engineers at Toyota are shedding the weight of their cars like the Mazda and thus lacking in structural rigidity and solidity.

Despite all these my heart is still with the Camry because of the hybrid engine.

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