{"id":36292,"date":"2026-06-16T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36292"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:17:35","slug":"accord-celebrates-50-as-honda-weathers-mid-life-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/accord-celebrates-50-as-honda-weathers-mid-life-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Accord celebrates 50 as Honda weathers mid-life crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Honda’s Accord 50th anniversary logo features, from left, the first-generation model, the fourth-generation iteration and the current, 11th-generation offering.<\/em><\/div>\n

Honda, Honda<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cReaching 50 years as America\u2019s best-selling car is a powerful testament to Accord\u2019s fun-to-drive spirit, quality and value,\u201d said American Honda Vice president of Auto Sales Lance Woelfer. \u201cBuilt by American associates for generations, Accord reflects Honda\u2019s long-standing commitment to building close to our customers. As we look ahead, Accord will continue to evolve, while staying true to the principles that have defined its success for half a century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Accord made history in 1989 as the first non-pickup-truck, import-brand vehicle to hit the top of the U.S. sales charts (displacing the Ford Escort). The next year, it sold 417,179 units \u2014 Accord\u2019s high-water sales mark \u2014 part of a three-year run at No. 1. It would take the sales crown once more in 2001 with 414,718 sold, interrupting the sedan sales reign of the Taurus and Camry.<\/p>\n

Since the SUV sales boom a decade ago (including the Honda CR-V, which has topped 400,000 annual sales the last two years), Accord buyers have steadily eroded to 150,196 in 2025.<\/p>\n

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Honda’s Accord 50th anniversary logo features, from left, the first-generation model, the fourth-generation iteration and the current, 11th-generation offering. Honda, Honda \u201cReaching 50 years as America\u2019s best-selling car is a powerful testament to Accord\u2019s fun-to-drive spirit, quality and value,\u201d said American Honda Vice president of Auto Sales Lance Woelfer. \u201cBuilt by American associates for generations, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36293,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36292\/revisions\/36293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}