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Originally Posted by marty351
Sister had a '93 Prelude, design, engineering, build quality, damn fine car. Worked on a Jazz a few years ago, looked and felt like a Nissan Pulsar, not even close to the same quality as the prelude. I could be wrong but the Accord Euro was the last of the quality Hondas sold here.
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Agree - Accord Euro was still built in Japan, everything else went to Thailand.
The Accord Euro would have been wicked if we got the same option of the 3.5L V6 that the US market had, unfortunately we only had the K24 variant. It was nice to drive in 6sp manual variant but its torqueless, would have been a good P plater car but they were about $40K back in the day for the midspec Luxury with the leather interior and rad stereo.
Interestingly, this year the 7th generation Accord Euro R which was a Japanese exclusive model has just been given the green light for import approval and compliance in Australia - its got the smaller K20 engine similar to the DC5 Integra Type R, a bit more power (At bloody 8000 RPM) but less torque.
My sister has a current model Jazz complete with CVT, it struggles to maintain 110km/h on the freeway when you point it up a hill, the build quality is crap and the A/C sucks too, absolute junk.