Originally Posted by Samson
call it what you like.
Ill restate it. Why did honda bother changing the 05 accord at all... if more was to come for 06. It seems a waste either way.
And also. What honda changed for 05.. is plenty when u look back at past refreshes... The 97-01 preludes got a new grill.
My point is... if the accords sales have been falling.. they should have done this for 05, not 06.
Honda has always made small, mostly subtle changes before refresh and model change over. Honda has stated a while ago, they're going to make side airbags standard in nearly all their products in the very near future. The only change for 05 really was the taillights on the sedans and that was because the introduced the hybrid and just used the same taillamp on the hybrids. This was exactly what they did on the Civics for 03 with the jewel taillamp on the sedans and the new instrument panel lit blue for sedan and red for coupe just before the real 04 refresh for the Civics.
Accord sales are falling in relative to last year's number, but this isn't disastrous. Honda hasn't played with the high incentives game that Toyota and many of the other manufacturers has utilize to move cars off their lots, so Honda doesn't turn over its stock as fast as Toyota, but on the other hand, it helps keep profit margin higher and keeps resale value up for customers.