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With the wide-open interior, I never felt like I was as enclosed in a tight area, despite this older Accord being considered a small car by todayвЂ™s standards.

I didnвЂ™t test the back seat, but judging by the looks of it I canвЂ™t imagine itвЂ™s a bad place to be either. The interior is spacious enough and its seats comfortable, offering proper support without feeling like itвЂ™s getting fresh with me. ItвЂ™s easy to imagine taking this 1989 Accord to a million miles. While I didnвЂ™t bother to look at the tires for their speed rating and treadwear, I can confirm that they in fact held air routinely, further proving old Hondas donвЂ™t need fancy sensors such as a low tire light. However, I can see how its more sporty brethren could be modified easily to make them stop on the proverbial dime. To note, while IвЂ™m sure the powered, vented disc brakes up front and drums in the rear arenвЂ™t suited for any track sessions, they gripped rightfully well with no indication of fade. I found the Accord composed no matter what environment or conditions I subjected it to, always finding sure footing whether I was driving like Mario Andretti or his grandmother. Momentum is easily kept at speed given its flea-like weight of 2685 pounds вЂ“ made even better with its independent front and rear suspension. Similar in vain to a first-generation Mazda Miata, tight curves are its best friend. While the anemic SOHC 2.0 liter four-cylinder, with its 120 horsepower and 122 lb-ft, asks for encouragement and gentle words of persuasion from a dead stop, its silky-smooth delivery of its output is rewarding.

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Coupled with a user-friendly 5-speed manual gear-slinger and a featherweight clutch dumper, this Accord offers a blissful motoring experience. Thin A-pillars and an electric sunroof above give a feeling of open-air motoring unlike anything, short of an actual convertible.

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From the driverвЂ™s seat, itвЂ™s easy to see HondaвЂ™s main focus of design was its large greenhouse and driver ergonomics. To be fair, my euphoria is spawned from the previous ownership of a 1995 Acura Integra which held such strikingly-similar driving dynamics and the same shrieking, high-pitched howl from the starter. But for those who buy a car for the driving experience and donвЂ™t care about what comes out of the speakersвЂ¦ might I interest you in a 1989 Honda Accord? I know some of you canвЂ™t live without having all the computer-wizardy stuff and thatвЂ™s fine, we sold Ford Fusions for a reason.

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However, if youвЂ™ve got to have your phone connected to everything, there is a solution in the form of a Bluetooth cassette adapter. One doesnвЂ™t need some fancy-schmancy instant-connecting horse hockey nonsense. Can you control the functions of your modern Camry just as easily? Having actual buttons over a touch screen gives you more control than ever by allowing you to use muscle memory and keep your eyes on the road, where they belong.ДЇorget your Apple CarPlay, this Accord comes equipped with both a factory cassette and CD player. Do you want to pop the headlights up вЂ“ but keep the lights themselves extinguished? You bet your Rising Sun you do and weвЂ™ve got another button just for that. Need to control the passengerвЂ™s and driverвЂ™s floor ventsвЂ¦ but separately? Hell, weвЂ™ve got two levers for you and the mister. Want to control exactly how far out you need your antenna mast to stick out? Got a button for ya. Christ alive, there are so many buttons, too. You push it and youвЂ™re rewarded with a satisfying solid click. Not impressed? Graze any button, any one of the million adorning this dash board and tell me what it feels like.

The wheel is coated in an indestructible plastic that actually feels good to the touch. Take your grubby paws and touch the steering wheel. No, I donвЂ™t care about your BMW lease, itвЂ™s probably garbage in comparison to this old Accord and let me tell you why. However, IвЂ™m on the side of вЂњweвЂ™ve made a wrong turn.вЂќ I just drove a 30-year-old Honda Accord around for a week and it had fewer rattles and squeaks than whatever 2021-model-year crossover you think is new and hot right now. Where are the windows-down road trip cars with the special mix tapes in the center console?ДЄutomobiles of yesteryear offered a touch and feel that can no longer be manufactured, and IвЂ™m not sure if itвЂ™s because we have a new perception of вЂњqualityвЂќ or what. Or when Biff got sick from eating too much endless salad and breadsticks from Olive Garden and had to be rushed to the hospital. Like that one time when we went to Panama City on a whim. These old cars would take us across the country and back giving us stories of epic road trips that couldnвЂ™t possibly have been true.

Consider me old fashioned, but what in the heck happened to us? We used to make cars that meant something to the consumer.

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