HONDA ACCORD COUPE (1998 – 2001)本田雅阁采伐(1998欧元Â"2001)
Consider for a moment the concept of the ?world car?.想一想的概念?世界车?. Ford coined the phrase when launching the Mondeo, a car that was sold in a number of global markets, but a truer example would probably be the fifth generation Honda Accord.福特推出蒙迪欧名词短语时,一辆汽车被卖给了一些全球市场但更正确来说可能第五代本田雅阁. This acme of Japanese cars is bankrolled in Japan and sold all around the world.这是日本汽车尖端卡里莱斯在日本及世界各地出售. The saloon and hatch models are built in Swindon, the Type-R models developed in Hiroshima.该房建于辰、孵化模式,R型发展模式,在广岛. The car we examine here, the two-door Accord Coupe hails from Marysville, Ohio in the industrial heartland of Uncle Sam.这里车来审视,二门来自marysville采伐协议,在俄亥俄州的工业心脏大叔. Would putting a used one on your driveway make you a part of the cosmopolitan cognoscenti or would you merely be depriving the global village of an idiot?停一会用你把你行车的一部份都会被剥夺不受干扰或是你只是地球村的白痴? Find out here.找到这里.
HISTORY历史
Before the fifth generation Accord Coupe was unveiled in July 1998, Honda had been bereft of a coupe they could be proud of.第五代之前给予采伐揭幕1998年7月,本田已经束手无策了采伐可自豪. Yes, the manic Integra Type-R was gaining plaudits, but Honda?s showing in the sort of market sector that the Ford Cougar and Vauxhall Calibra had made their own was lamentably poor.不错,积分躁狂型住宅愈来愈松江、不过本田?在这种市场收盘呈现界,美洲豹、福特狂暴感叹的是标定了自身差距. The fourth generation car never had the style or substance to attract the notoriously fickle UK coupe customer and the fifth generation carried a great deal of hope.第四代汽车从未风格或内容来吸引顾客的采伐和英国声名狼藉薄情第五代发表了大量的希望.
Unfortunately it bombed.可惜轰炸. Why?为什么? The reasons are complex and have little to do with the fact that it was a beautifully engineered and elegantly styled car.原因很复杂,关系不大的事实,这是一个美丽、优雅风格设计的汽车. It seems that British buyers expected Honda coupes to either be rock hard buzzboxes like the Integra (which sold well) or bloated barges like the Legend Coupe (which didn?t).看来英国买家预期本田coupes要么被石头一样硬buzzboxes积分(卖出),或像传说采伐臃肿驳船(雾化?笔). Given that the Accord Coupe was never cut from the same cloth as the Type-R brand, it was instantly, and somewhat unfairly, labelled a duffer.鉴于该协议采伐从来如出一辙的R型的品牌,据瞬间有点不公平,称为duffer. Two models were imported, a 145bhp 2.0-litre ES model and a197bhp 3.0-litre V6.两款进口,一145bhp2.0公升权证模式和a197bhp3.0升V6导. Both sold in criminally tiny numbers until they were quietly withdrawn in early 2001.无论出售多少,直到他们被刑事小小2001年初悄然撤出.
Tracking down a used version will therefore mean that you may have to compromise on your exact preference on year, colour and trim but it?s almost impossible to find a lemon.追缉使用版本意味着你可能会因此对你确实有妥协的意愿2000年但颜色和修剪?收盘几乎不可能找到柠檬. The staid image and mature ownership profile means that the Accord Coupe has steered clear of the boy racers.成熟稳重的形象和所有制结构,意味着已经走出了采伐协议赛车. It?s difficult to go far wrong.?收盘难走远矣.
WHAT YOU GET 什么才叫 
Here is a car which allows four to stretch out in luxurious comfort, defying the traditional restrictions of the coupe concept.这里是一个让轿车在豪华舒适伸出四、无视传统观念束缚的采伐. Most other rivals in contrast, have rear benches good enough for little else but transport to the local hostelry.大多数其他竞争对手相较之下,后排座椅有足够的交通工具,但什么地方旅馆. And, you could add, comfort levels that hardly fill you with anticipation for the next tiring journey.而你可以补充,舒适程度,很难预料在未来填补你跋涉. The fifth generation Accord Coupe is far bigger than any of its predecessors, despite a wheelbase reduced by some 45mm.第五代协议采伐远远大于任何其前任,尽管轴距减少约45mm大小. Somehow, the designers managed to create 22mm of extra rear legroom and this, along with repositioned A-pillars and redesigned seats, means that it can be considered a true five-seater ?或多或少,设计师能创造额外后方legroom和复制本,随着定位-支柱并重新席位,即可以看作是一个真正的五人座? unique in the class.独特的阶层. To some this will be a virtue whilst to others they will denigrate the car as merely an Accord saloon less the utility of a pair of back doors.这将是一个有道德而贬抑他人将车只是少了中古房效用一双后门.
As you might expect, both the Accord Coupe models come exceptionally well equipped, with air conditioning, cruise control, twin airbags, ABS, leather seats, alloy wheels and electric everything.正如你可能期望双方协议采伐方式来格外精良,与空调、巡航控制、双气袋,ABS的,皮革座位,合金车轮和电动一切. The V6?s tally is identical to that of the 2.0-litre, save for larger alloys, twin exhaust tailpipes and a gas-filled bonnet support strut (why not on both?).V6导的?收盘相符的相同,2.0公升,节省较大合金、双燃烧室和排气充气头盖支持支杆(何不两?). Each model boasts a large boot.每个示范夸大行李箱. Honda, after all, were out to create a Grand Tourer in the true sense of the term.本田毕竟是创造出了盛大tourer在真正意义上的.
WHAT YOU PAY 您付出
If you can live with the lack of aspirational image, you?ll benefit from some affordable resale values.如果你能忍受没有期望形象,你呢?得益于当地一些负担转售价值. The 2.0-litre ES model starts at £4,200 on a 1998 R plate, rising to around £7,500 on a 2002 ?51?<2.0公升权证模式始于1998住宅板块在4200英镑,7500英镑上升到了2002年左右?1951年? registration.注册. Add another £450 onto those figures if you want the more desirable automatic.另外再加上450英镑,如果你想在这些数字自动更为理想. The muscular 3.0-litre V6 (only available with an auto box) starts at £4,000 and tops out at around £8,500 for the last of the rare 2002 51-plated examples.肌肉3.0升V6导(只有自动箱)、顶出始于4000英镑8500英镑左右,为近02年罕见的51-镀例子. Insurance for the Accord Coupe 2.0 is a very reasonable Group 11, but you?ll get stung if you opt for the V6, this boulevard cruiser being rated in the same Group 17 insurance bracket as the rocketship Accord Type-R saloon.保险协议2.0是一个非常合理采伐组11但你呢?如果你选择叮得当地的V6导、这大道巡洋舰在同一组被评为1917年保险协议托架作为rocketshipR型球馆.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR 寻找什么
Look for a bargain, look for accident damage, but don?t expect to find too many Accords with inherent faults.找便宜,寻找意外损坏,但鲍思?笔指望找到太多符合固有缺陷. These are well-engineered cars with an impeccable reliability record but the V6 is hungry on front tyres.这些都是小康工程车与绝佳的可靠性纪录而V6导是饿战线轮胎. It?s also an engine that needs the right fluids, so make sure the oil has been changed regularly and that the head gasket isn?t on its way out.?收盘引擎还需要正确流体所以一直做到定期更换油头垫片,肖国?笔其出路. Body panels for the Accord Coupe can be difficult to source and correspondingly pricey, so check bodywork carefully.体板可采伐的协议难以来源地相对昂贵,所以仔细检查车身.
REPLACEMENT PARTS 替换零件
(approx. based on a 1998 Accord Coupe 2.0ES - EX VAT) A clutch assembly is around £175 and an exhaust system about £420.(约基于1998年协议采伐2.0es-恩增值税)离合器装配约175英镑和420英镑左右排气系统. Allow a budget of around £45 respectively for front brake pads and £40 for the rear.让英镑和45元左右的预算前刹车皮和40英镑的后方. A front headlamp should be around £180.前照灯应阵地180英镑左右. A radiator is about £180, and a starter motor around £280.约180英镑的散热器、起动马达280英镑左右.
ON THE ROAD 在路上
The entry-level 2.0-litre ES comes in manual and automatic forms and, though a little slower than its predecessor, is rather smoother thanks to twin balancer shafts in the engine.入门级2.0公升权证进来手工和自动方式,虽然有点慢942经过相当顺畅槽双引擎平衡. Variable valve timing makes it feel more eager too.可变气门使得感觉更加向往. The V6 flagship model on the other hand, has the figures to back up the feeling.旗舰的V6导模式在另一方面,有数据备份的感觉. Rest to sixty occupies 8.5s on the way to 140mph, so it?s a little sad for performance enthusiasts that it comes in automatic form only.8.5s至60月占用休息途中140mph,所以?收盘表现有点悲哀,就自动爱好者的唯一形式. Nor is there a sequential shift transmission system to allow you to use the auto ?box like a manual.也没有改变顺序传送系统让你使用汽车?信箱像个体力劳动. Never mind.不要紧. Honda say there?s no need, believing that the Accord Coupe will be aimed at an older, less performance orientated clientele.本田说?收盘不需要,认为该协定旨在将采伐老、少表现为主的客户群. Sales data seemed to back up this claim.似乎销售数据备份这项索赔.
Certainly, you wouldn?t blanch at the thought of a trip to the south of France for this is a luxury mile-eater par excellence.当然,您wouldn?于灼笔想到赴法国南部,这是一种奢侈英哩吃饭一流. Refinement has obviously been a key priority on the engineering agenda, yet shift down a gear and both engines reveal a sporting sound and character that reminds you of Honda?s past motor racing successes.细化明显的一个关键工程优先议程不过移了齿轮、发动机都揭示了体育运动和健全人格,提醒你本田?赛车成绩榜首. Strangely it?s also the only way to get hold of a V6 engine in an Accord, Honda deeming the 2.2-litre VTEC engine quite capable of mixing it with six-cylinder rivals in the executive saloon market.奇怪吗?收盘也只有这样,才能掌握了V6发动机的协议本田382.2公升发动机电子总量尚能以混合六汽缸对手行政房市场. We?d beg to differ.我们?四苟同.
OVERALL 总体
If you know what you?re looking for and that something is a car that?s comfortable, reliable, well-engineered and sleek without being ostentatious the Honda Accord Coupe could be just your thing.如果你知道你?重新找车,并且是一件?收盘舒适、可靠,小康工程和漂亮而不花哨哨只可采伐的本田雅阁贵事. Sales figures would dictate that this sort of customer is something of a rare beast and your best opportunity for tracking down a well looked after Accord Coupe may well be via a franchised dealer.销量将主宰,这种客户是你最好的难得机遇和野兽追捕一个很好照顾采伐协议可能通过专利说道. Some cars make all kinds of sense new and suddenly become awful; used buys.有的车进行种种新的意义,突然变得很差;用于购买. The Accord Coupe is the opposite.协议采伐却是相反. There were always several more compelling new buys in the Accord?s corner of the market, but second time around the Honda?s blend of reliability and owner profile make it worth a look.总是有几个更令人信服新买的协定?收盘角落市场但是第二次世界本田?收盘交融可靠性和所有者概况使它值得一看.
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