- crossover 42,996
- 18,995 fair
- Syracuse, NY
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- autoshopper.com
- crossover 42,996 gasoline brown automatic
Not that much, however, with the rear seats folded: 59. 7 cubic feet, compared to 51. 3 in the 2012 accord (meanwhile the less swoopy but still sleek venza has 70. 2). But with the rear seat up, there's 25. 7 cubic feet in back, compared to 15. 8 cubic feet in the trunk of the accord sedan. The big hatchback opens wide to the cargo area, while lift-over height at the rear bumper is not much higher than a midsize sedan's. However, its sheetmetal is more like the 2013 accord, thanks to revisions for 2013. Honda says it's more rugged looking, presumably because there's more black plastic in the fascia at the front, rear and rocker panels. We don't get rugged out of that. But we do see a cleaner shape at the nose, thanks to its mimicking the new accord. there are two engines. All-wheel drive models come with 18-inch alloy wheels with p225/60r18 all-season tires. safety equipment on all models includes six airbags, electronic stability control, abs with ebd, tire pressure monitor, active front headrests, and side impact beams. Optional safety features include lane departure warning (ldw), forward collision warning (fcw), and lanewatch blind spot display. It's similar to the bmw x6, but swoopier. One long character groove extends from the top of the front fenders through the door handles, climbing slightly to the taillights, contributing to the vision of the raised rear. The roofline flows in the opposite direction, its slope so long and shallow that the vast rear glass seems almost flat. There's a black spoiler that contains the horizontal brake lights, but it's lost in the tinted privacy glass. the hips appear huge, like no midsize car we know. The fascia below the front bumper contains a horizontal stretch of black plastic with a silver faux skid plate, with mesh around foglights, it all looks cheap. the pillars are blacked out, and there is a chrome rim around the glass. The rear corner is a sharp triangle following the roofline, back behind the c-pillar where there are no passengers to look out the tinted glass triangle. The seats were not too firm, not too soft, not too wide, and not too flat. Rear-seat headrests have been tweaked to improve this, but it's still bad, because of the roofline and the obstructive horizontal bar at the deck that's structurally needed, because of all the glass (it contains the chmsl brake lights). It's annoying, if not unsafe. We don't know what can be done about it, in a car with this much glass in back. The toyota prius is the same. what we liked second-least was the complicated radio tuning. We think it's a dastardly plot by manufacturers, because nowadays it seems they're all like that. Not to mention non-intuitive thinking. The distraction is dangerous. the instrumentation is clean. The speedometer and tachometer are crisp, white numbers on a black face, with nice silver rings that change colors at night, into a moody electric blue, needles too. The information should be been displayed in a smaller box ahead of the driver's eyes. On the nav screen, it takes up more space than needed. Efficient use of small visual spaces is important in car design. the standard rearview camera is nice and clear, but the optional/upgrade lanewatch blind-spot display malfunctioned on us. In the couple years since these systems were invented, we've gotten hundreds of warnings in cars we've driven, every single one of them false alarms. The basic problem is sensitivity. Dario franchitti on a perfect lap around i. Climate Control✔ AM/FM✔ Tachometer✔ Sunroof/Moonroof✔ Leather Seats✔ Bluetooth✔ Navigation System✔ Alloy Wheels
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