The 255hp v6 hybrid accord



I was witness to this first hand a short time ago as one of my nieghbors bought one and managed to find a local s2000 to toy with up to about 60. It's no joke this car is really that fast

what spurned this was the sales guys comments when he was leaving that it was the fastest car currently offered by HOA. Obviuosly Acura has one faster.

 

i would figure this car is fast to 60. i'll take one to 100 and the S should fair better, more likely pass it

<--has no problem spankin new TL's

 

New challeger to what?

A comparison between a 3500 lb mid size familiy sedan and a 2 seat convertible sports car is relevant how? Do you really think that anyone in the market for a car would cross-shop an S2000 and an Accord Hybrid sedan?

Andrew - Who does not understand the premise of this thread.


Modified by aklucsarits at 9:19 AM 4/19/2005

 

Its still a big pig 4 door accord...theres lots of big pig cars out there that can out accelerate the S2000, good thing honda built our roadster without focusing so much on accleration times as it did a over all sports car with handling as its shining point. It just happens to hold its own being able to run 13's stock in the 1/4...and thats quite a bit down on the list of things that make the S2000 a great car.

 

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A comparison between a 3500 lb mid size familiy sedan and a 2 seat convertible sports car is relevant how? Do you really think that anyone in the market for a car would cross-shop an S2000 and an Accord Hybrid sedan? </TD></TR></TABLE>

agreed...

 

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I love the s2000 forum

it goes from

"hey guys I got mad tyte ITB's so I can make mad power for the 1/4"

to

"fool we don't care about the 1/4 it's all about 3rd g3^R vT^K on teh road course"

The car handles amazingly well in part due to it's lower center of gravity, retuned suspension and a super stiff chasis designed 5 years newer than the s2000.

Since the base price is about the same but with 4 doors and 37mpg and with a pretty high level of performance it's not really hard to see it as a practical alternative in the honda family

 

I am pretty impressed with the new hybrids that are coming out, they are quite powerful......but somehow I highly doubt that Accord would beat an S2000 either on a road course or in the 1/4.

 

So I should be worried about that? What about the V6 Coupe 6 speed I put about 6 car lengths on??

Most of the people on here don't drag race.. I do. Someone local to me find one for me to run.

 

232 lbft of tq with less than 15% drivetrain loss is how

 

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That car is not running 13's.

 

So you came in here to show how a car could run a 1/4 time near the times of the S2000 based on figures you got from a magazine that is probobly also running their estimates off of what other cars of like power and weight could do...hell man, you could go get the big boar Pontiac GTO and blow the doors off the S2000 in the 1/4...my response to it would still be "and?"

From what i see in here and what i read and know on my own, a majority of the S2000 owners out there have drag racing on the bottom of the list of things they want or actually DO with their roadster...thats awesome that the new eco friendly hybrid accord can go fast in a straight line...i doubt anyone that actually buys one will use it for such things, but i guess the idea that they "Could" is what your going off of...well, would you like the list of 100+ cars that can do the same thing? lol...who cares?

Look at the car...its an accord...its a 4-door...its a family car, it gets good gas mileage, and it has a decent amount of torque. My CL Type-S has the same torque and you couldnt rocket it to the 13's if you wanted to, best maybe a 14.8xx on a good day in great conditions...and its a 2-door!

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What are you implying? That this car (because of its newer designed chassis) has better handling characteristics in some way? or that based off its chassic design, that for the size of the car, its more impressive than the old technology used on the S2000's chassis? lol...elaborate?

 

yes it's a challenger bc...when I went looking to buy an S2000 this spacious 4 door caught my attention with it's gas saving slash uber power when I need it attractablity.

I highly doubt a person in the market for an S2000 will be detered by this car..

 

LOL...nevermind, dont bother explaining, out of curiosity i went and looked up a review of the new accord hybrid's performance specs...i'll let the article speak for itself...heh, based off the existing accord v6 coupe specs, this thing aint even close...

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The stats: An Accord Hybrid produces 255 horsepower and 232 lb-ft of torque, 90 percent of which is available below 4000 rpm. This represents a 6.3 percent increase in horsepower, while torque is up 9.4 percent. That's good enough to knock about half a second off the time it takes to reach 60 mph from a standstill.

While performance of the new Accord Hybrid is impressive, so are its fuel economy improvements. More stats: fuel economy in the city is rated at 30 mpg; highway is 37 mpg. This is a 43 percent improvement in the city, 23 percent on the highway over the standard Accord V6 sedan. To put this in perspective, a Honda Civic (not the Civic Hybrid) gets 31 mpg city/38 mpg highway. Maximum range on one tank of fuel increases to by 23 percent to 633 miles.

So how does Honda do it? Getting more power and better fuel economy was not as simple as attaching an electric motor to the standard Accord V6 engine. Some impressive technology went into this achievement. In the Accord Hybrid, the gasoline engine needed to be efficient as well as provide high performance.</TD></TR></TABLE>

...current accord V6 coupe 0-60 = 6.4sec. So your looking at about a 6.0sec 0-60 time, which is achieved from having torque so low in the powerband...and then running it up over that, enjoy your mpg.

 

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I wouldn't exactly say "blow the doors off an S2000 in the 1/4," it's only about a half second faster.

 

Well you know what i mean, you got this torquie GTO that can easily beat an S2000 in the 1/4 (stock for stock) but do you think people would be like "HAHAHA, why did you get an S2000, you could have got a GTO!" or in this case...an accord hybrid? Thats all i was trying to say...less on the actual #'s difference and more on the fact that he's trying to compare a sports car, a hand built roadster vs. a family car that just happens to have respectible performance #'s for what it is.

See what im saying?

 

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yes

 

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I love the s2000 forum

it goes from

"hey guys I got mad tyte ITB's so I can make mad power for the 1/4"

to

"fool we don't care about the 1/4 it's all about 3rd g3^R vT^K on teh road course"

The car handles amazingly well in part due to it's lower center of gravity, retuned suspension and a super stiff chasis designed 5 years newer than the s2000.

Since the base price is about the same but with 4 doors and 37mpg and with a pretty high level of performance it's not really hard to see it as a practical alternative in the honda family </TD></TR></TABLE>

Dude you are such a HURTBAG. Your life must really sucks thats why you have to rag on everybody. Just drink the bleach bud.

Don't you have anything better to do then make useless posts like this one?