From the Archive: A bigger caboose for your caboodle.
Mouthwatering station wagons come few and far between: the Audi Quattro, the Ford Taurus, the Mercedes 300, the Volvo Turbo. The first three showed up rounded, the last starkly boxlike, but all remain classy and well proportioned. About fifteen months ago, when Honda's forward thinkers introduced today's Accord sedans and coupes, they showed renderings presented as their own mouthwatering wagon. Its shape promised to outprofile even the world's most handsome five-doors.
Like a cloudburst in the desert, here comes the Honda to gully-wash the status quo. Yet the Accord Wagon hasn't come out as svelte as we expected. It lacks, perhaps, in the sheetmetal what looked so attractive on the sketch pad. But get this: the freethinkers who dreamed up this potential flood tide work not out of Honda's Japanese R&D center and studio but its American think tank and design enclave in Southern California.
Despite the stylish original plan, some details slipped away between the early rendering and the final fendering. The wagon's bodywork remains leanly handsome, especially the aggressive nose, slick shell, and glassy cabin. But the windows along the appended "boot" don't blend into its shape—or the shapes of the other side windows—as seamlessly as the artwork led us to expect. The Accord's liftgate and taillights also fail to mesh as smoothly as they might.
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