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title: "This Shorty Honda EV Prototype Is How the Accord Should Really Look"
date: "2024-10-10"
modified: "2024-10-10"
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  - name: "Chris Tsui"
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  - "Accord"
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  - "sedan"
---

# This Shorty Honda EV Prototype Is How the Accord Should Really Look

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-16_0c0c3d.jpg>)
*Honda*

I was in Japan last week to learn about how [Honda's](<https://www.thedrive.com/category/honda-news>) upcoming "0 Series" EVs have been shaping up. One of the first things I noticed pulling into the company's R&D facility in Tochigi was this [Accord](<https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/2023-honda-accord-first-drive-review-specs-price-options-impressions>)-bodied prototype and [how downright sick it looks](<https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/honda-0-series-ev-prototype-first-drive>).

Honda had two prototypes on hand for this event, one wearing the body of a CR-V and this short-body Accord. Each journalist present only had time to drive one of these two and, despite my hopes for the contrary, I was assigned the CR-V. Still, I don't need to drive it to tell you the 0 Series prototype Accord looks the absolute business.

In my view, the Accord sold on our shores hasn't been genuinely good-looking since, like, 2015. What the last couple generations of Honda's midsize sedan gained in overall length, it lost in aesthetic grace. Here's what it currently looks like:

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/06/2024accordhero-1-1.jpg>)
**Chris Rosales**

Shorten it up, paint it black, punch up the fenders (that presumably accommodate the 0 Series' wider tracks), slap on the wheels off of the [Acura](<https://www.thedrive.com/category/acura-news>) MDX Type S, and the Accord suddenly becomes one of the snazziest-looking sedans in recent memory. Shove the old 3.5-liter V6 in there and it could be the Accord Type R from a brighter timeline. As a connoisseur of compact-ish, sporty-ish, mature-looking sedans, I would absolutely buy that car as long as it didn't cost a bajillion dollars.

I mean, just look at it:

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_7072.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_7077.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-22.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-18.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-41_bbfdf7.jpg>)

The aggressive front fenders that flow into the "cheeks" of the front fascia give it a very sporty, almost muscle car-esque appearance. Big wheels fill out those fenders beautifully while a much smaller rear overhang gives it much better proportions than the actual, production Accord.

For your viewing pleasure, here's a mega-gallery of the greatest Accord that never was.

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-1.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-3.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-4.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-5.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-6.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-8_2f003c.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-10.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-11.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-17.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-24.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-27.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-28.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-29.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-32.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-39.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-51.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PG_Test_Drive-52.jpg>)

*Got a tip or question for the author about the shorty Accord? You can reach him here: chris.tsui@thedrive.com*

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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