Honda Accord

24000 Honda Pkwy, Marysville, OH

Last updated 8/27/2026

The Honda Accord has been sold in the US since 1976 and across eleven generations has built a safety reputation less on any single dramatic innovation than on unusually consistent engineering discipline — the Accord has posted some of the strongest structural crash-test scores in the midsize sedan segment across most of its production history, generation after generation, rather than excelling in one redesign and regressing in the next. Honda's ACE (Advanced Compatibility Engineering) body structure, introduced across the lineup in the 2000s, was specifically engineered to better distribute crash energy in collisions between vehicles of different sizes and heights — addressing a real-world safety problem (mismatched bumper heights and structures between cars and taller SUVs or trucks) that isolated single-vehicle crash-test ratings don't fully capture on their own. The current generation Accord comes standard with Honda Sensing, a full driver-assistance suite including automatic emergency braking, lane-keeping assist, and adaptive cruise control across every trim level rather than gating the most important safety features behind higher-priced options — a decision that's helped keep the Accord among the more consistently top-rated midsize sedans in IIHS Top Safety Pick evaluations for years running. Built primarily at Honda's Marysville, Ohio plant — one of the longest-running Japanese-brand assembly plants in the United States — the Accord's specific combination of consistent structural safety performance and standard-equipment driver-assistance technology has made it, generation after generation, one of the most reliably safe mainstream sedans a typical buyer can purchase without paying a luxury-brand premium.

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