Car of the Year 2006

Driver8 · #14 11-22-2006, 04:12 PM

I tried my level best to love a perfectly competent brand new Accord EX-V6. It made so much sense...it just left me cold. It had bits and pieces of excitement baked into it in places, but not enough bits and pieces in enough places to light my fire. It is a great car for 90% of car buyers. It paled in comparison to any BMW, or at least any BMW I've ever owned.

A Camry/Corolla/Accord is a great car to recommend to your sister-in-law who buys one new car per decade, or to a colleague who justs wants Point A to Point B transport and wants to do just that for 200,000 miles, but they aren't for everyone. I had my Accord exactly four months before I found my X5, my second one, and I never looked back. My wife, however, loves her new Civic Si. And this is a woman who has owned a V8 S4, a twin-turbo S4, several hairy-chested V8 pony cars...the list goes on. Different strokes, right?

Mike