#PRODUCTWATCH: 2019 HONDA ACCORD TOURING 2.0

We couldn’t pass-up a chance to test drive the new 2019 Honda Accord Touring 2.0 after catching wind of its arrival. You know how much we adore the Series!

We’ve been a bit down about losing our dear Billy a few weeks back and with there being so little downtime since then with event after event to cover, we really haven’t had a moment to ourselves and time to catch-up with dear friends and the Accord Touring 2.0 gave us exactly this. Time to drive far away, clear our mind and reflect.

The Acccord Touring 2.0 builds on its predecessors’ legacy of style and elegance. We felt elevated driving the Lunar Silver Metallic masterpiece across all terrains: bumpy country roads, highways and city concrete.

Its 2.0-litre, 16-valve, Direct Injection, DOHC, iVTEC, turbo-charged 4-cylinder engine meant pure power… all 252 horsepower of it! For the first time ever we got to experience its Adaptive Damper System which individually can adjust the shock absorbers’ forces to match the vehicle’s payload, the state of the road surface and even the driving style. State of the art!

Like recent evolutions in offerings from Honda, we fully have gotten used to shift gear-free driving. The heart and soul of the vehicle is its intuitive Display Audio System and panel with HondaLink Navigation System. Its HandsFreeLink connected easily to our Android, allowing us to stream our favourite playlists off Spotify when we weren’t vibing-out to SiriusXM Hits 1 or their newly-launched all-hits Pandora channel. Its 452-watt Audio System with ten speakers is magical.

We love some of the things Honda continues to do for user-friendliness in Climate Control, recognizing the different, customized needs of driver and passengers. We adore that there are seat warmers and coolers. The heated steering wheel option came in handy as we transition from the frigid winter to spring. We love that there are several charging ports and a charging plate ensuring everyone is happy!

The ventilated front seats and perforated leather-trimmed seating surfaces deliver comfort and purpose and we received several compliments about roominess from our friends who were lucky enough to ride along.

Safety always is first with Honda and we loved its Traffic Sign Recognition, keeping us updated on our travels with changes in speed limits in a holographic manner on the car’s windshield. Its Blind Spot Information System does much work for us so that we can stay focused on the drive and its Collision Mitigation Braking System, Electronic Brake Force Distribution, plus Lane and Road Departure Systems keep us on alert.  Upon a few drops of moisture on the windshield we notice our windshields begin to wipe automatically. Now that’s intuition!

Like the 2019 Honda According Touring that we tried over the Holidays, we once again saw that pesky Tire Pressure Low warning light surface again after driving over a speed bump in the country.  If you’ve double-checked the tire pressure and all is fine, try re-calibrating by going into Vehicle settings on the Accord‘s touch-screen display and under TPMS Calibration. We selected the Calibrate option which made the warning go away.

We couldn’t avoid rising gas prices this time around after being spoiled all winter long, but we got plenty of value out of a tank of gas on ECON mode driving country to see our namesakes Mr. Will and A Pic by Mrwill, to city for work and Press Junkets, including the one for hotly-anticipated Teen Romance, AFTER which is poised for big numbers.

We created many memories in the 2019 Honda Accord Touring 2.0 with our family (inluding my nephew’s cat Jinx!) and friends and couldn’t have had a better sidekick to do it all in.

The 2019 Honda Accord Touring 2.0 retails from $40,976 CAN. More here.

 

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So much fun catching up with my girls @ellederush @katyakwiat + @brihurley16, who got to meet @mrwillthehorse! He loved them! He also loved his new Bunny plushie! Of course, a stop at @sanremobakery was necessary!

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I missed Princess (@apicbymrwill) so much! Can’t wait for her to be able to get outside finally and run free soon! She’s been such a good girl! Thanks @emifisher for all the great care you give her!

A post shared by Mr. Will Wong 📸 (@mrwillwong) on Apr 4, 2019 at 7:38pm PDT

 

 

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Sweetie. 🍰

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Hijinx with Jinx. pic.twitter.com/knSkV9wypj

— MR. WILL WONG 📸 (@mrwillw) April 8, 2019

 

 

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A joy getting to chat with #AfterMovie stars #JosephineLangford, #HeroFiennesTiffin x Author of #After, #AnnaTodd! Chat coming soon on the site! They appear tonight at Yorkdale Indigo 7:30 PM! AFTER is in theatres 4.12.19!

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In loving memory of Billy. I’ll never forget all our adventures together in the many Honda vehicles we’ve been in together over the years. Recorded in the 2019 Honda Accord Touring 2.0.

 

(Photo/video credit: Mr. Will Wong)