Honda Accord

Honda’s move upmarket from the Civic, launched in 1976 and sold continuously ever since, its second-longest-running nameplate after the Civic itself.^[1] It grew from a compact hatchback into a mid-size saloon that spent sixteen years, 1982 to 1997, as the best-selling Japanese car in the United States, and became the first car built under an import badge to top America’s sales charts outright, in 1989. Eleven generations later it is sold as a saloon only, no longer as a hatchback, coupe or wagon.