mods will liven the car up a bit but the price over gains is up to you, and mods will void warranties depending on what you do :nuts: as far as tuning goes, Hondata or another tuning company may bring out a tune for our cars but DO NOT go and buy an ebay tune or any other tune that offers huge gains because they are mostly fake! ATM i dont know of any tunes for our cars :thumbsdow
I disagree with your assumption about the CVT. Every car I have ever read about has a slower zero to sixty time with an automatic transmission compared to a standard transmission with one exception, the Porsche tiptronic. Automatic transmissions in mid price range cars all have a certain amount of power loss due to the complexity of an automatic. The CVT is just a different way to get an infinite number of gear ratios not just one gear ratio as you suggest. The CVT allows the engine to use the optimum RPM to get the best torque for every driving situation including better milage. CVT transmissions are not a new technology and have been used in Honda automobiles since 2000. They have been used in other applications even longer. I think that the future of automatics is the CVT because Honda has built a CVT transmission factory in Ohio and is building one in Mexico next to it's new assembly plant. Between emission standards and fuel economy requirements globally the standard transmission may become a relic.
There's a lot more than Porsches... Manuals being faster are largely a thing of the past for most performance/sports/super cars. And every drivetrain suffers from power loss, though automatics are historically higher than MT's. CVT's are usually in place to maximize efficiency, but i believe they can be set up to maximize performance as some bikes have them. the accord's cvt is i'm sure focused on efficiency, but geared enough to performance to not ruin the experience.
No cars in the Accords league are faster with any kind of automatic. Some extremely powerful cars with launch control are faster with automatics - mostly because of wheelspin.
VW's equipped with DSG trannies are faster than their manual counterparts. the "extremely powerful cars" you speak of aren't faster because of wheelspin, they are faster because they can not only shift gears perfectly every single time, but in a fraction of the time any mortal* could possible achieve.
No they are not.
Don't worry, you didn't start a war. I have been extremely happy with the CVT transmission in my car. There are some people on this forum who have had terrible problems with their CVT equipped cars and Honda has replaced a couple of them with new units. However, there is a lot of misconception and misunderstanding about the CVT transmission because the transmission is new to the Accord. Of course Honda went with this technology to increase fuel economy and did a marvelous job when mated to the I4 Earth Dreams engine. Additionally, the transmission operates almost seamlessly and can deliver torque almost instantly when you step on the accelerator. Combined with the paddle shifters the car can be driven very aggressively. There is also a very vocal group of members who love their manual transmissions and I can understand their loyalty. I drove only manuals including an Accord and a Prelude until 1998. Honda is one of the few companies that offers a manual transmission in their flagship sedan.
mmk what is it with this forum that makes people so argumentative? no what are not what? conventional torque converter automatics are slower, aside from some specific applications. dual-clutch transmissions are faster. the cvt in the accord uses a torque converter. this is a pretty basic explanation for why the accord auto produces slower acceleration times.
if the car is stock, there's nothing to really tune. once a few bolt-ons have been added, a tune could arguably maximize the potential gains from those upgrades and be worth the money spent; however, not so sure there is a way to tune the 9th gen just yet.. ?
