2022 Honda Accord

The volume 1.5-liter turbo powertrain makes 192 hp. The 2.0T is the range maximum at 252 hp, while the hybrid produces 212 total-system hp.

The volume 1.5T delivers 192 lb-ft across a broad low-to-midrange plateau. The available 2.0T raises peak torque to 273 lb-ft.

Car and Driver's 2022-specific test figure for the 1.5T/CVT LX is 6.6 seconds, appropriately representing the volume powertrain. Trim, tires, and test protocol matter: MotorTrend recorded 7.2 seconds for a heavier 1.5T EX-L.

The volume 1.5T is responsive, quiet in ordinary driving, and unusually brisk for a base engine, though sustained hard acceleration produces some engine noise. The smooth 2.0T and generally seamless hybrid broaden the lineup's refinement strengths.

Honda's G-Design CVT is linear, responsive, and better controlled than many rivals' CVTs, but it still raises and holds engine speed under hard acceleration. The optional 10-speed automatic is smoother and more satisfying, but it is not the volume transmission.

Every 2022 Accord configuration is front-wheel drive; Honda offered no AWD or 4WD system on gas or hybrid trims.

Three genuinely distinct choices cover efficiency, mainstream, and performance needs: a 1.5T/CVT, a 2.0T/10-speed, and a two-motor hybrid. That is exceptional breadth for a mainstream mid-size sedan, despite the lack of AWD, PHEV, or EV variants.

The volume-oriented Sport 1.5T is the representative configuration. The EPA record reports 32 MPG combined; the 2022 lineup also ranged from 26 MPG for the 2.0T to 47 MPG for the most efficient hybrid trims.

The representative Sport 1.5T earns 29 MPG city. Buyers prioritizing urban efficiency could choose an Accord Hybrid, rated as high as 48 MPG city.

The representative Sport 1.5T earns 35 MPG highway. Its 19-inch wheels reduce highway economy versus the LX and EX-L 1.5T trims, which Honda rates at 38 MPG.

The representative Sport 1.5T has an estimated full-tank range of 473.6 miles, rounded to 474, using its EPA combined rating and Honda-specified tank capacity. This is a strong gas-sedan range without relying on the more efficient hybrid option.

The EPA's standard 15,000-mile annual-use estimate is $1,900 for the representative Sport 1.5T. Its regular-fuel requirement helps contain operating cost despite its lower economy than the available hybrid.

Every 2022 Accord gas and hybrid configuration runs on widely available regular unleaded, with no premium-fuel requirement. Honda specifies 87 octane or higher and permits gasoline containing up to 15% ethanol.

The 2022 Accord and Accord Hybrid earned NHTSA's maximum overall rating for this exact model year.

The 2022 Accord earned Top Safety Pick+ and Good ratings in every crashworthiness test used for that award. Its Marginal result in the later, tougher updated side test prevents a near-perfect score.

Every trim has the important Honda Sensing core of AEB, ACC with Low-Speed Follow, lane-departure warning, lane keeping, and road-departure mitigation. Blind-spot information and rear cross-traffic monitoring are limited to EX-L and higher trims, leaving the LX and volume-oriented Sport variants short of a complete suite.

The standard system earned Superior ratings in vehicle-to-vehicle and daytime pedestrian testing plus Advanced at night. Nighttime low-beam performance was inconsistent in the parallel-adult scenarios, keeping it below the very best systems.

Blind-spot information and rear cross-traffic monitoring are useful but only fitted to EX-L and above. Both are warning systems rather than active steering or reverse-braking interventions, and no safe-exit alert is offered.

Standard LKAS supplies useful lane-centering assistance and road-departure mitigation, but this camera-era Honda system can make frequent small corrections and requires continuous hands-on supervision. It is capable rather than class-leading in smoothness and confidence.

Full-speed ACC with Low-Speed Follow is standard and can stop the car in traffic, then resume with a button press or accelerator input. Combined with LKAS it is a useful highway aid, but it lacks the more predictive, navigation-linked behavior and polished automated lane functions of leading systems.

No hands-free highway-driving system was offered on any 2022 Accord trim. Honda Sensing's ACC and LKAS remain hands-on driver-assistance features.

IIHS rated the LED-reflector setup Good on Sport, Sport SE, EX-L, Touring, and corresponding Hybrid upper trims, including the representative Sport. The base LX and Hybrid headlights are only Acceptable because of glare, so top performance is not standard across the range.

The Accord has unusually good all-around natural visibility for a low sedan and a standard multi-angle rear camera. Sloping rear pillars still create rear three-quarter blind spots, and there is no surround-view camera to fully compensate.

IIHS's rare Good+ rating reflects easy-to-use anchors plus an extra usable center position. The spacious rear cabin and wide door openings also make multiple and rear-facing child seats comparatively easy to install.

Every 2022 Accord gas and hybrid trim has two front seats and a three-place rear bench.

The representative volume configuration has no moonroof and uses the larger published figure; moonroof-equipped EX-L, 2.0T Sport, Touring, Hybrid Sport, and upper hybrid trims have less space.

The same generous front-legroom measurement applies throughout the 2022 gas and hybrid range.

Rear headroom is competitive and changes by only 0.1 inch when a moonroof is fitted.

The unusually spacious second row is a defining packaging strength and the measurement applies across all powertrains and trims.

This is one of the segment's largest trunks, and the hybrid sacrifices no cargo capacity.

A covered center-console compartment, door pockets, front and rear cupholders, two 12-volt outlets, and available rear USB ports cover everyday needs, but there is no standout storage innovation.

Comfortable cloth seats and exceptional rear space make the Accord a strong road-trip sedan; Sport and higher trims add a 12-way power driver's seat with four-way lumbar, though lower trims have simpler adjustment.

The chassis combines disciplined body control with excellent compliance, especially on the volume trim's 17-inch wheels; 19-inch Sport and Touring versions are somewhat firmer.

Wind noise is well suppressed and the cabin is refined for a mainstream sedan, but tire noise remains noticeable on coarse highway pavement and lower trims are less hushed than upper trims.

Dual-zone automatic climate control is standard, heated front seats arrive on the volume-oriented Sport Special Edition and EX-L, and Touring adds ventilated front and heated rear outboard seats; a heated steering wheel is notably absent from the factory feature table.

The LX is the least-expensive 2022 Accord. This is the facelifted tenth-generation car introduced for 2021; 2022 was a carry-over year rather than the eleventh-generation redesign.

Sport 1.5T is the representative high-volume configuration, pairing the mainstream engine with the appearance and equipment package commonly chosen by retail buyers. Hybrid, 2.0T Sport, EX-L, and Touring versions cost more and are not used for the volume-trim input.

Edmunds' configuration-specific projection includes both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, wear items, and repairs over 75,000 miles. It is methodologically broader than simple repair-frequency estimates and therefore produces a comparatively high total.

The 2022 Accord has exceptionally strong projected retention for a midsize sedan, materially ahead of the same-year Sonata and above the sedan normalization ceiling. KBB's observed three-year result also supports the Accord's unusually slow depreciation.

Honda's basic warranty is the floor of the sedan scoring band and trails Hyundai and Kia by two years. It applies to both gas and hybrid 2022 Accords.

The standard powertrain term is the sedan-band minimum. Hybrid buyers receive additional eight-year/100,000-mile coverage against greater-than-normal high-voltage battery degradation, but the scored headline powertrain term remains five years.

The 2022 Accord included no complimentary scheduled-maintenance plan; Honda Service Pass arrived on later model years. It does include useful 24/7 roadside help for the full 3-year/36,000-mile basic-warranty term, placing it at the bottom of the rubric's basic-roadside band.

$28,980 volume-trim price minus its estimated resale value after 5 years (65.1% retained, or about $18,866) leaves about $10,114 in depreciation. Add the projected $9,096 in 5-year maintenance and repairs, and owning this vehicle for 5 years costs about $19,210 in total.

The exact-year results are mixed rather than top-tier: Consumer Reports calls the gas 2022 Accord about average, while its separate 2022 Accord Hybrid result is much more reliable than the model-year average; J.D. Power rates the Accord's quality and reliability 77/100. This mature carry-over year therefore lands above the middle of the average band, but not with Toyota-like certainty.

Honda has a durable multi-year record near the front of mainstream brands, including a top-five position in Consumer Reports' 2024 survey and strong long-term used-car results. It stops short of the very top because its J.D. Power dependability performance and some recent recall campaigns have been less uniformly dominant than Lexus or Toyota.

Recall volume is not excessive for a mature mass-market sedan, but the record includes meaningful safety issues: passenger-seat occupant detection, a small VSA modulator/brake-hold campaign, and subsequent expanded seat-sensor coverage. More concerning, NHTSA's generation-wide investigation of unintended automatic emergency braking covered 2018-2022 Accords and reported crashes and injuries, so this cannot score as a clean or merely minor history.

The two-motor hybrid is the standout and Consumer Reports finds the exact 2022 Hybrid much more reliable than its peers; the optional 2.0T/10-speed also has a generally sound reputation. The volume 1.5T/CVT prevents a higher score because 2018-2022 Accord 1.5T owners have generated credible head-gasket and injector concern, even though no authoritative failure-rate data shows that most engines fail.

For a mainstream midsize sedan at its original price, the Accord's broad soft-touch coverage, handsome furnishings and clean control layout are class-leading. Lower trims remain less plush and quieter rivals exist, keeping it below luxury-grade territory.

Multiple reviewers describe tight panel fit and solid assembly, and 2022 was the fifth, final model year of this generation rather than a launch-year build. Scattered infotainment and trim complaints keep it from an exceptional score, but physical assembly quality is a clear strength.

Honda has a dense nationwide mainstream dealer network, strong parts-distribution infrastructure and broad rural as well as metropolitan coverage. Dealer experience varies locally, but J.D. Power's exact-year Accord page rates dealership experience a strong 83/100.

The high-volume, U.S.-built Accord has abundant OEM, salvage and aftermarket support, and routine repair costs are substantially below midsize-car norms. Turbo or hybrid-specific major repairs can still be costly, so it does not reach the very top of the band.

The volume-trim Accord Sport and every other 2022 Accord use the same 8-inch center touchscreen, with no larger factory display available.

The interface is quick, logically arranged, and unusually approachable, with useful physical controls, though its small screen and aging graphics keep it below the newest systems.

Wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are standard, but factory wireless projection is confined to Sport 2.0T, EX-L, and Touring rather than the volume Sport 1.5T and lower trims.

The volume trim relies mainly on projected phone maps and assistants. Honda's command-based satellite navigation with voice recognition is functional but limited to Touring and is less natural than contemporary connected assistants.

The Sport's 180-watt eight-speaker setup is adequate, while EX-L and Touring offer a stronger but unbranded 450-watt 10-speaker system with a subwoofer. The upgrade is useful rather than class-leading.

A crisp, configurable Driver Information Interface occupies only the left side of the gauge cluster, paired with an analog speedometer. It provides useful phone, trip, driver-assistance, and available navigation data but is not a full-digital cluster.

The Accord can accept infotainment/connectivity software updates, including through Wi-Fi or the Touring telematics connection, but it lacks regular whole-vehicle OTA feature delivery.

HondaLink supplies basic service and vehicle information broadly, while subscription-based remote lock/unlock, vehicle finder, security alerts, and remote start are concentrated in the Touring trim. There is no digital key.

The volume Sport has two 2.5-amp front USB ports and two rear charging ports, but they are older USB-A connections. Wireless charging is restricted to Sport 2.0T and higher trims, and there is no household outlet.

Push-button start and remote entry are standard, but proximity Smart Entry and factory remote engine start begin at Sport SE rather than the volume Sport. No phone-as-key or hands-free trunk is available.

Every trim gets a useful multi-angle rear camera with dynamic guidelines, but the volume Sport lacks parking sensors. Sensors arrive on EX-L/Touring, and neither a surround-view camera nor automated parking is offered.

A useful windshield head-up display showing speed, navigation, and traffic-sign information is available, but only on the top Touring trim rather than volume models.

The exceptionally roomy rear bench, accessible anchors, and large trunk make daily child-seat and stroller duty unusually easy for a sedan. The fixed trunk opening and low seating position are the main compromises versus a crossover.

Top contemporary crash credentials and standard AEB, lane keeping, and adaptive cruise with low-speed follow give affordable trims a strong family safety package; a rear-seat reminder is also included. Blind-spot monitoring is absent from the lower trims, and the later updated IIHS side test was only Marginal.

A spacious rear seat, 16.7-cu-ft trunk that is unchanged on the hybrid, standard dual-zone climate, and composed ride suit four-person trips very well. Rear USB ports require higher trims and only Touring provides heated rear seats, keeping it just below the benchmark band.

Comfortable controls, a compliant independent suspension, standard adaptive cruise with low-speed follow, and smooth automatic powertrains make the Accord low-effort in traffic. The 1.5T CVT can sound busy under acceleration, but it is unobtrusive in ordinary commuting.

The volume 1.5T is efficient on regular fuel and the available 47-mpg hybrid is exceptionally inexpensive to fuel, while mainstream tire sizes and Honda service costs remain sensible. Real-world testing indicates the turbo can miss its EPA estimate, and Sport/Touring hybrids fall to 43 mpg combined.

A standard multi-angle reversing camera and good sedan sightlines keep it manageable, but its 196.1-inch length is substantial in tight urban spaces. Parking sensors are trim-dependent and no surround-view camera was offered.

This front-drive sedan has no cargo bed and Honda publishes no US tow rating, so it is not a meaningful work vehicle. The roomy trunk and folding seat handle sales samples or small tool bags, not payload-intensive duty.

The mature tenth-generation platform, mainstream cabin materials, regular fuel, and long-running Accord fleet reputation should tolerate high-mileage road use with care. It was not engineered for repeated heavy loads, rough jobsites, or easily washable commercial service.

There is no bed, onboard AC power, factory roof-rail system, or commercial upfit program. A cargo net and trunk tray do little to change its fundamentally passenger-car mission.

Supportive seating, a settled ride, generous cabin space, active noise cancellation, and standard adaptive cruise with low-speed follow make this an excellent highway sedan. EPA combined economy and tank capacity imply roughly 488 miles for LX/EX-L 1.5T and about 602 miles for the 47-mpg hybrid, though rear amenities are modest below Touring.

It can manage maintained gravel and carry bicycles with aftermarket accessories, but every US version is front-wheel drive, low-slung, and has no published tow rating. Honda offered no factory roof rails, hitch, or camping-focused power outlet.

The 16.7-cu-ft trunk is excellent for a sedan and retains full capacity in the hybrid, while a 60/40-split rear seat accommodates long items. The trunk aperture and lack of factory rails, hitch, or hatchback access still constrain truly bulky gear.

The Accord is unusually composed and eager for a mainstream mid-size sedan, with minimal body roll, secure grip, and a firmly controlled ride that does not become harsh. Its size keeps it just short of true sport-sedan agility, but it is at the top of its class.

Steering is accurate, predictable, and easy to place, but its light weighting and limited road feedback prevent it from matching the excellent chassis for engagement.

Stopping performance is secure and straight, and the brakes are easy to modulate in routine use. A soft pedal reported on both 1.5T and 2.0T examples keeps the score below the excellent band despite a short 114-foot 60-0 mph result for the Sport 2.0T.

The volume 192-hp 1.5T responds promptly and its CVT changes ratio smoothly, while the optional 2.0T's 10-speed is nearly seamless and the refreshed hybrid has natural, lively transitions. This is one of the segment's best-calibrated powertrain families.

The turbo four is generally smooth and wind isolation is good, but the cabin is not exceptionally hushed and noticeable tire/road noise erodes refinement. Powertrain noise itself is audible but not notably coarse in the volume 1.5T.

The volume LX configuration's 38.2-foot diameter is toward the wide end of the sedan normalization band, so tight parking maneuvers require more room than in many sedans. Sport 1.5T/2.0T configurations can be slightly wider.

An airy cabin, clear sightlines, supportive seating, physical climate controls, and an intuitive touchscreen make the Accord easy to operate. Wide sills, thin seat-bottom padding, nonintuitive steering-wheel buttons, and possible knee contact for tall drivers are the principal compromises.

Even the volume 1.5T combines quick response with a balanced chassis, making the Accord more entertaining than the typical family sedan; the powerful 252-hp 2.0T raises the ceiling substantially. Muted steering feedback prevents it from feeling fully sports-sedan intimate.

The $25,470 LX included Honda Sensing, adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, automatic emergency braking, dual-zone automatic climate control, an 8-inch touchscreen, and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto. Blind-spot monitoring, heated seats, leather, and wireless phone integration required higher trims, keeping it just below the loaded-at-base extreme.

Few rivals matched the Accord's combination of space, standard safety technology, efficiency, and performance at its price: buyers could choose a 47-mpg hybrid or a 252-hp 2.0T that Car and Driver tested at 5.4 seconds to 60 mph. Its value was independently recognized by both U.S. News and Kelley Blue Book for 2022.

The range covered economy, sport, luxury, and efficiency buyers with LX, Sport 1.5T, Sport Special Edition, EX-L, Sport 2.0T, and Touring 2.0T gas configurations plus Hybrid, Hybrid Sport, Hybrid EX-L, and Hybrid Touring. Three distinct powertrains and a roughly $14,000 price span were unusually broad, though every version was front-wheel drive and there was no plug-in hybrid.

The Accord remained one of America's two dominant midsize sedans and the tenth generation had strong market acceptance, but supply constraints contributed to a sharp calendar-2022 decline to about 155,000 units and left it well behind the Camry. That is leader-level recognition without segment-leading volume or trajectory.

Honda's reliability and resale reputation gave the Accord unusually strong desirability for a mainstream family sedan, while the quick 2.0T and polished chassis added an enthusiast halo. It was beloved and trusted rather than genuinely aspirational, so it stops short of luxury-brand territory.

The 2022 Accord arrived during severe inventory shortages, and popular versions commonly sold at MSRP or with dealer add-ons rather than meaningful discounts. Honda occasionally offered subsidized financing, but the buyer benefit was limited compared with normal midsize-sedan incentives.

The 2022 Accord was the fifth and final model year of the tenth generation, albeit only one year removed from the 2021 facelift. It was substantially carry-over aside from the new Hybrid Sport trim, and the fully redesigned eleventh generation was unveiled in November 2022 for model year 2023, creating clear replacement risk.

The 2022 Accord was the segment benchmark: Car and Driver ranked it first among midsize family sedans, gave it a 10/10 rating and a 36th 10Best appearance, while KBB and U.S. News awarded it for value and family-car excellence. The breadth and consistency of wins place it at the very top of this band.