It’s no secret that we’ve been yearning for the eleventh-generation Honda Accord. Besides, the Toyota Camry can’t have the market all to itself, right? That said, there seems to be no sign of it coming to the Philippines.
Which makes us all the more jealous of our Southeast Asian neighbors. At the moment, it’s only Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand that get Honda’s executive sedan. The rest of us? Tough luck.
And to make us even greener with envy, the Honda Accord for Southeast Asia has been given a bit of a refresh. While not to the extent of the Chinese-market model, it’s still a welcome update nonetheless.
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The new Accord comes with relatively minor tech updates for the 2026 model year. This time around, all variants of it get the full Honda Sensing suite, the company’s advanced driver assist system. From now on, all trim levels get blind-spot information, as well as cross traffic alert from the base model and up. There’s now also the ability to cancel the LaneWatch camera when the turn signal is activated.
Besides those, there are also a couple of exterior trim changes. They’re quite hard to spot, though, and it might not appear that anything was changed at all. We’ll list them down to make life a little bit easier.
The lower sections of the bumpers, as well as the side skirts, are now color-keyed for all variants. It also gets clear and black headlight corner decoration strips, as well as color-keyed headlight frames. The RS e:HEV model gets gloss black highlights on the bumper air intakes, and all variants below the RS get black wheels.
Everything else has been carried over from the pre-update Accord. That means it still has the same mechanical bits as before. The Honda Accord is powered by a 2.0-liter Atkinson Cycle engine that’s mated to two electric motors. The result is a combined output of 204hp, while the electric motor pushes out 335Nm. If those specs sound familiar, that’s because they’re identical to the CR-V RS e:HEV.
Okay, the updates are few and far between, but that isn’t making us want the eleventh-generation Honda Accord any less. But as much as we want it, the market has spoken: No one really buys these midsize sedans anymore. A shame, really, because we think the Camry deserves some friendly competition.
