"Andrew" <andrew532217@aol.com> wrote in message
news:bh3aqj$t64$1@news-int.gatech.edu...
> John Horner <jthorner@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > If I had bought a Hyundai I would expect to find these kinds of
problems.
> > Now I'm wondering if Honda's cost reduction engineers have taken their
jobs
> > too far. Maybe the Ohio plant where my car was built doesn't really
have
> > their act together on the new generation Accord. In the past I have
always
> > followed the policy of not buying the first model year of any design.
>
> Is it still possible to buy Japanese-manufactured accords? I made sure to
> buy an Accord with a VIN that started with J.

Accords are designed differently for each continent... or so I have been
told. Apparently the USA Accord is bigger than the Euro/Jap models. Can
anyone confirm this?