HONDA ACCORD 2.2 i-DTEC EX 5dr Auto [ADAS] (2009)

Some spaces a bit tighter than expected but 100% reliable

The main down side with our Honda Accord, which we only really realised a few months in, is that it's really really difficult to adjust the seats just right to fit four or five adults in, and it often means arranging people in a specific order so that the long legged one is sitting behind the short legged one, or vice versa. And you can't have more than two long legged people at once or it all goes a bit wrong.

It's odd really because it looks like a lovely big car, but the space inside just gets used up far too quickly. Meanwhile the huge bonnet sort of sits there taking up space and mocking your attempts to fit inside the cabin. It's all a bit demoralising and we're sort of regretting getting the Honda Accord now for that reason.

Having said that, we don't routinely have adults in the back, it's usually just the kids, and it's perfectly fine for that. It's also been extremely reliable in the time we've had it. That's only been two years but I've heard plenty of horror stories about other cars coming apart long before that time.

The parking camera is a godsend, really fantastic, no idea how I got on without it. It does get a bit steamed up sometimes, and it's not really as if you can just pop out and give it a wipe when you're in traffic, but that doesn't happen too often.

I said about the cramped cabin. The boot is actually pretty small too, and again we didn't notice that until we wanted to get four adults in (with a week's luggage each) and it struggled. It seems silly for an estate to have a confined boot but it did, which was less than impressive. Those aren't the sorts of things you notice on a test drive though, or not what we noticed. Worth thinking these sorts of things through before you buy.