2025 Honda Accord Review

With the 2025 Accord, Honda proves you can get a lot without spending a lot.

Christian Wardlaw | 

May 20, 2025 | 7 min read

Christian Wardlaw

For less than $35,000, you can buy a new car that's fun to drive, gets 44 mpg city/highway combined, earns top safety ratings, and has enough room for the whole family. It's called the 2025 Honda Accord Hybrid, a four-door sedan with a spacious interior, the largest trunk in its class, and a starting price far below the average new vehicle's.

Honda last redesigned the Accord for the 2023 model year, and now the 2025 Accord receives small but meaningful updates. Rear air-conditioning vents and USB charging ports are standard, a new SE trim level replaces the previous EX, and all hybrid versions have heated front seats, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity, and wireless smartphone charging. The top-level Touring adds a heated steering wheel.

For a weekend escape to California's central coast, I packed my wife and two teenagers into a 2025 Accord Hybrid. We traveled the highways and back roads between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo, and nearly without exception, this Honda proved its worth and value as a family car. It also reminded me why we bought one when our 16-year-old started driving.

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About the 2025 Honda Accord

Honda sells the 2025 Accord with a turbocharged 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine or the automaker's two-motor hybrid powertrain. The turbo models come in LX and SE trim, priced from the high $20,000s to the low $30,000s, including the destination charge. Accord Hybrids are available in Sport, EX-L, Sport-L, and Touring trim levels with sticker prices from the mid-$30,000s to the low $40,000s.

For this 2025 Accord review, I test-drove the Touring Hybrid. Optional Urban Gray Pearl paint increased the manufacturer's suggested retail price to $40,905, including the $1,150 destination charge to ship the car to the dealership from the Marysville, Ohio, assembly plant. Honda provided the test car for this 2025 Accord Hybrid review.

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Roomy, Practical, Comfortable, and Conservative

Standout styling is not what sold my family on the Accord. In 2023, Honda ditched the previous-generation Accord's taut and expressive design for a clean, conservative look. If nothing else, I think it'll age well.

The Accord's interior blends palpable quality with elegant detailing, such as the metal mesh panel dividing the dashboard. Our test vehicle had an upscale, high-contrast, light gray interior, with gloss black trim and metallic accents providing additional visual interest.

Analog climate controls, a traditional shifter, and matte-black control surfaces with white markings make it easy to find and use the car's features. The 10.2-inch digital instrumentation and, in Hybrids, the infotainment system's 12.3-inch color touchscreen are models of clarity. The tiny nub of a stereo volume knob seems like an afterthought, though.

I found the power-adjustable driver's seat of my tester a great place to spend time. However, seat track travel is limited for taller people. The Touring Hybrid test car's leather was soft and supple, and the front seats offered heating and ventilation.

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One great thing about the Accord is the roomy back seat. And the seat cushion and backrest are angled to provide outstanding support and comfort. Adults enjoy impressive legroom, and this year, all Accords have rear air-conditioning vents and USB charging ports.

My 16-year-old appreciated those updates. Though she sometimes suffers from motion sickness in our 2024 Accord Sport Hybrid, which lacks air vents, on this trip, she experienced no queasiness.

Interior storage space is generous, but our 32-ounce water bottles/tumblers wound up rolling around within the cabin. The Accord's 16.7 cubic-foot trunk feels enormous and measures larger than every other sedan in the segment. It accommodated our weekend-away luggage with plenty of room to spare. Notably, when popping the trunk with the key fob, the lid opens completely, which we always appreciate with our Accord.

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The 2025 Accord Has the Tech You Want

As you move up the Accord trim-level ladder, you gain access to better infotainment systems. The LX and SE feature a relatively small 7.0-inch touchscreen with wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, but Hybrids add a 12.3-inch color touchscreen. It includes Alexa Built-in, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and wireless smartphone charging.

My Touring test vehicle had an exclusive Google built-in infotainment system featuring Google Maps, Google Play, and Google Assistant. As I expected, Google Assistant proved adept at responding to voice commands. There were a few stumbles, most notably when the technology affirmed it would change the interior temperature and then did not. But otherwise, it performed well, and the Touring's 12-speaker Bose audio system produced a satisfying listening experience. I used the wireless Apple CarPlay extensively during our trip, without any issues.

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Every 2025 Accord includes Honda Sensing, and with one notable exception, it has the advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) you expect to find on a modern family car. Unfortunately, blind-spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert are unavailable on the base Accord LX.

Honda continues to refine its ADAS, and I found the collection in the Accord Touring Hybrid worked well. If the technology fails to prevent a collision, tests have demonstrated that the Accord is an exceptionally safe automobile. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave it a five-star overall rating and five stars in each assessment, and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety calls the 2025 Accord a Top Safety Pick+. It doesn't get any better than that.

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The 2025 Accord Hybrid Is a Delight to Drive

Honda's award-winning two-motor hybrid powertrain is an impressive piece of engineering, and the net result is 204 horsepower and 247 pound-feet of torque. That's plenty for a car weighing about 3,500 pounds. Since the system's electric propulsion motor does the heavy lifting, the torque is immediately available when you step on the accelerator pedal. That makes the Accord feel quick and responsive.

Speaking from my experience, this powertrain is terrific. It provides smooth operation, satisfying performance, and impressive fuel economy in daily driving. In addition, Honda calibrates its continuously variable transmissions to sound and feel like conventional automatics.

On our road trip, a full load of passengers and luggage in the trunk dulled the Accord Hybrid's passing ability at freeway speeds and on mountain grades. Fuel economy also fell short of expectations, though for good reasons.

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Accord Hybrids with 19-inch wheels should get 44 mpg in combined driving, but we averaged 37.6 mpg on the road trip. Separately, the car performed worse on my evaluation loop, returning 37.1 mpg.

Both results are less than I see in my family's Sport Hybrid (about 42 mpg), but we typically drive in the city and suburbs where the car is more efficient. My wife also uses the Econ driving mode; I tested the Touring Hybrid in the Normal and Sport while driving mainly on highways.

As they say, your mileage may vary. But no matter which Accord Hybrid you choose, you should find it enjoyable to drive. A well-tuned suspension provides a comfortable but communicative ride, and with the larger 19-inch wheels, the car's handling impresses. Add a flat cornering attitude, fluid and precise steering, and smooth and capable brakes, and you have a predictable, trustworthy, and delightful car to drive.

Unfortunately, road noise is a constant companion on most highways, possibly partly due to the 19-inch wheels. Also, when the gasoline engine is running, I don't think it sounds refined. However, those are my only complaints about the Accord Hybrid driving experience.

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Is the 2025 Honda Accord a Good Car?

It's hard to believe that Honda can offer this level of performance, efficiency, comfort, practicality, technology, and safety for less than $35,000. In the midsize family-sedan segment, I feel only the Toyota Camry can rival it as an overall package, and the Camry also offers all-wheel drive, which the Accord does not. The Hyundai Sonata is another appealing alternative, especially regarding value. Still, though it's imperfect, the 2025 Honda Accord remains a standard-bearer in its segment.

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Chris says his first word was "car." For as long as he can remember, he's been obsessed with them. The design. The engineering. The performance. And the purpose. He is a car enthusiast who loves to drive, but is most passionate about the cars, trucks, and SUVs that people actually buy. He began his career as the editor-in-chief of Edmunds.com in the 1990s, and for more than 30 years has created automotive content for CarGurus, J.D. Power, Kelley Blue Book, the New York Daily News, and others. Chris owns Speedy Daddy Media, has been contributing to Capital One Auto Navigator since 2019, and lives in California with his wife, kids, dog, and 2004 Mazdaspeed Miata.