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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to accompany an end to an automotive articulation that artlessly needs to die: the non-sporty coupe.
For those of you who aren’t abiding what I beggarly aback I say “non adventurous coupe,” acquiesce me to call the two types of coupes that currently abide today. One is the adventurous coupe. This is a car with glassy styling, and a air-conditioned interior, and a lot of power, and some atom of achievement suspension, or achievement brakes, or article performancey, like a faux carbon cilia aperture panel.
Examples of the adventurous auto accommodate the Porsche 911, the Ford Mustang, the Subaru BRZ, and – if you ask the Germans – the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe, admitting the blow of us aloof accede that to be an cher sedan.
And again you accept the added blazon of coupe. The non-sporty coupe. This is a car that was a sedan, until some auto industry geniuses got ahold of it and absitively they could actualize an absolutely new articulation by aloof throwing on a new, two-door anatomy and business it as “sporty.” Examples accommodate the Honda Civic, the Honda Accord, and, well, that’s about it.
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There’s a acumen those are the alone options: because anybody abroad has gotten out of this segment. For years, we had the Toyota Camry coupe, afterwards alleged the Camry Solara. It’s gone. The Chevy Monte Carlo. It’s gone. The Chevy Cobalt coupe, the Chevy Cavalier Coupe, the Ford Tempo coupe, the Ford Focus auto (look it up!), the Dodge Avenger, the Chrysler Sebring coupe. Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone. All gone. The Nissan Altima Coupe. Gone. All because this articulation is a massive dud; the automotive agnate of Kevin Costner’s Waterworld.
So why is Honda still in it?
My approach is Honda has alone every added adventurous car they’ve anytime had – from the NSX and the S2000 on bottomward to the CR-Z – so they feel like they accept to action some allotment of “performance” about in their lineup. So they action the Civic in auto and auto varieties, alike admitting around anybody abroad has accomplished the absolute abode to be, aback it comes to bunched cars, is sedans and hatchbacks.
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Interestingly, it seems like Honda still doesn’t accept the auto memo. At this year’s New York Auto Show, Honda displayed a ablaze blooming Civic advised to examination what’s to appear for the bunched car’s abutting generation. So what anatomy appearance did it use? The awful accepted auto model, which accounts for added than 80 percent of all sales? A auto to let us apperceive they’re assuredly activity to booty on the Ford Focus, the Mazda3, the Kia Soul, and the Volkswagen Golf?
No: they showed off a Civic Coupe, suggesting they plan to abide the non-sporty auto alike afterwards anybody abroad has jumped ship.
It’s the aforementioned bearings with the Accord. Every time there’s an Accord redesign, I apprehend Honda to assuredly advertise that they’re accomplishing abroad with the Accord Coupe. And every time there’s an Accord redesign, Honda instead surprises me and brings it aback for addition round.
The catechism I accept for bodies who buy these cars is: WHY?????
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If you absolutely appraise the Civic Auto and the Accord Coupe, what you’ll acquisition is that both models are absolutely aloof beneath applied versions of the sedans. Neither one is a sports car. Neither one offers abnormally glassy styling. In fact, if you ask me, the Civic Auto is absolutely a bit ungainly in its accepted form, in the faculty that it appears, at any moment, that it may be absolute over by a able access of wind.
So basically, the “non adventurous coupe” is aloof a auto with beneath practicality. Aforementioned Accord styling. Aforementioned Accord engines. Aforementioned Accord equipment, and platform, and suspension, and brakes. The alone difference: in the approved Accord, you can get out of the aback bench after authoritative the advanced commuter get up and avenue the agent first.
I’ve talked to a few bodies who own these vehicles, and I’ve appear to apprentice they absolutely accept these are sports cars. “Well,” they say. “I couldn’t allow a 370Z. So I absitively to get an Accord Coupe.” As if the two are equals. This would be like adage that you couldn’t allow a abode overlooking Central Park, so you instead absitively to get a flat accommodation in city Newark.
So I assumption the simple accuracy actuality is that Honda is activity to abide to accomplish these things as continued as bodies accumulate affairs them. But as the bazaar shrinks, and as bodies apprehend they’d absolutely rather accept a sedan, and as the tens of buyers antagonistic by the abandoning of the Chevy Cobalt auto move on to article else, I achievement Honda wises up and gives us hatchbacks instead. Because the canicule of the non-sporty auto are advancing to an end.
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