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Summary
A better-equipped, Japan-only twin of the second Accord, with a driving computer and steering-wheel cruise-control switches on every launch grade.
Specifications
Cockpit
Instrument cluster
Instruments set in a full-width 'full-tray' instrument panel. Digital instruments were offered as an option.
Centre display
Electronic Navigator (driving computer)
A trip computer showing distance, driving time and fuel economy.
Honda Electro Gyrocator
A gas-rate gyro and a distance sensor tracked the car, and its path was drawn on a monochrome CRT beneath transparent map film. On sale from 18 December 1981.
Controls
'Mild Flow Ventilation' blew a very gentle airflow through a single horizontal outlet running across the instrument panel, and an electronic compass was fitted.
Facts
- Honda billed both the steering-wheel cruise-control switches and the carburettor-type Electronic Navigator as firsts for Japan.[1]
- The twin Accord, launched on 22 September 1981, also had steering-wheel cruise control on every Japanese grade.[7]
- The 1981 launch grades were MG, ME and ME-R (saloon) and MX-T and ME-T (hatchback); the June 1983 facelift renamed them VL, VX and VXR (saloon) and TU, TX and TXL (hatchback), and fuel-injected VT-i, VTL-i and TT-i grades followed in May 1984.[1][6]
- Honda billed the Mild Flow Ventilation outlet as a world first.[1]
- Honda's Electro Gyrocator was sold as an accessory designed exclusively for the new Accord and Vigor.[2][3]