{"id":5281,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:29:28","slug":"new-york-times-samples-the-53mpg-honda-accord-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5281","title":{"rendered":"New York Times samples the 53mpg Honda Accord diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#x27;ve sampled several of the European spec <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a> models from the Bosch demonstration fleet over the last year and have some more cool tests coming soon. One example that we haven&#x27;t tried out is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/buy\/2007-Honda-Accord\/\">2007 Honda Accord<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/honda\/accord\/\">Accord<\/a> in question is the European model which is smaller than the American market car. This car is available in the U.S. badged as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/acura\/tsx\/\">Acura TSX<\/a>. However, to date no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/acura\/tsx\/\">TSX<\/a> has been offered with a diesel engine. That will probably change early in 2009 when the TSX is expected to become home to a new 2.2L diesel that <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2008\/02\/11\/new-york-08-preview-2009-acura-tsx-to-debut\/\">Acura displayed at the Detroit Auto Show<\/a> last January.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times did get to spend some time with the Bosch Accord and came away quite pleased. They managed to achieve 34mpg driving the Accord around town and a phenomenal 53mpg driving on the highway. Even hard driving still yielded 40mpg. Hopefully we&#x27;ll get a look at the new U.S.-market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/acura\/\">Acura<\/a> diesel before the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a>New York Times<\/a>, thanks to Joseph for the tip!]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/05\/19\/new-york-times-samples-the-53mpg-honda-accord-diesel\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-05-19T18:42:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#x27;ve sampled several of the European spec diesel models from the Bosch demonstration fleet over the last year and have some more cool tests coming soon. One example that we haven&#x27;t tried out is the 2007 Honda Accord. The Accord in question is the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10128,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}