So if you’re looking for a popularly priced mid-size coupe with six-cylinder power, Honda levels of refinement, and, rarer still, a slick-shifting manual gearbox, your shopping list is as short as it possibly can be.
There are several six-pot mid-size coupes available from luxury brands-the Cadillac CTS, the BMW 128i, the Infiniti G37, and the Mercedes C250 among them-but they routinely cost many thousands more. Hyundai offers the sporty-looking rear-wheel-drive Genesis coupe in four-cylinder turbo and V-6 forms, but that car lacks Honda levels of refinement. Nissan has pared back its Altima coupe offerings to one four-cylinder with an efficiency-over-fun CVT. Sporty, mid-size coupes are getting harder and harder to find. We’re certainly glad both the coupe and the optional V-6 exist. It’s not a rational decision, but neither is the 278-hp V-6. Yet Honda continues to offer the Accord coupe. The manual gearbox isn’t available in the Accord V-6 sedan, but an automatic version we tested recently tipped the scales at 3552 pounds.Īt the end of its life, the sedan outsold the previous Accord coupe by a factor of 10 to one. The Accord V-6 coupe we tested weighed in at 3399 pounds. Its overall length is 2.2 inches shorter than the sedan, and two inches have been clipped out of the wheelbase.Ĭarting around less car is a good start on the road to sportiness. Where the coupe differs from the sedan is in its size this is not a family-style meal. It’s a nimble and playful car that more than makes good on the promise of its rakish styling. All Accords share the same delicate wheel control and supple yet balanced ride. The 10Best-winning 2013 Accord coupe feels a lot like its four-door sibling. Starting with one of the most athletic and powerful family sedans and then turning it into a coupe? Well, that just might work.
We also picked up great power from just a tune, car feels way better. was thorough, took his time, while also helping me by explaining things I wasn't to sure about. Simply putting two doors where once there were four does not create a sporty car. This had to be one of the best tuning experiences to date. Over those years we have found the specific settings and variables that a J-Series engine prefers the most for power and safety, and then we simply implement that into our tunes.It’s all too easy to dismiss coupes based on family sedans as conformity dressed up as rebellion. For us J-Series engines are the sole and only engine we tune or work on for the past 13+ years. We don't have a magic wand, simply put we specialize in Honda J-Series engines while others work on whatever vehicles rolls in the door. We have time and time again out gained past Dyno Tuned vehicles from other tuners (obviously this will vary per vehicle), utilizing our E-Tunes and the customer re-dynoing just to find they made more power with us. Our tuning is also like no other, achieving top tier power results while keeping the engine safe for daily use, even when compared to past tuners "Dyno Tune" numbers. So not only does remote tuning give you the flexibility to tune at your own pace, it also allows the Tuner to view and change settings that arise from real world conditions (drive-ability), also while tuning for Performance.
While a Dyno Tune is a great tool to optimize performance, much of the time it comes up short with time constraints and in the daily driver aspect of things (mainly tune WOT and some DD settings). Remote E-Tuning allows for both tuner and customer to tune at their own pace.