Honda Asia, based in Thailand has started the marketing of Honda Access in Asia. Honda Access is the 'official' division within Honda that designs and develops 'official' accessories for Honda cars, including bodykits and performance parts. For the moment, Honda is only marketing the bodykit range of Honda Access, the Honda Access Modulo bodykits. Starting from the Honda City MMC last year, every new or facelifted model marketed by Honda now comes with an offer of optional bodykit to appeal to the enthusiasts. When Honda Malaysia launched the MMC or Minor Model Change for the Honda Accord earlier this year, I missed the media test-drive event due to an unforeseen circumstance. In that event, Honda Malaysia showed off their Honda Accord Modulo to the media. Subsequently I received a call from the Honda Malaysia marketing team inviting me to check out and test the same unit, which I eagerly accepted. While the review of the car will be forthcoming, I decided that the car itself deserves to be given a special feature car article. The Honda Malaysia Honda Accord Modulo comes fitted with the following Modulo bodykit items Front Lower 'Lip'

Rear Trunk Spoiler

Honda Access door visors

Side-step 'Garnish' Side skirts are standard on the Accord. The 'side step garnish' is a metal plate that is put on the bottom of the door sills and is meant to protect that part of the body and paintwork from wear and tear from the shoe soles of the driver and passengers when getting in and out of the car. I did not take a photo of this accessory during the photo shoot. The unit loaned to me is in Nighthawk Black Pearl and looked fantastic. As is the norm, Honda Malaysia did not change the front grille in order to retain the Honda badge. Enthusiasts who have purchased the optional bodykit will probably want to change the grille as well. I was given a brochure featuring the optional accessories for the Accord when I picked up the car. From that brochure, the photos of the 4 accessory items are shown below. I took the photographs of the car inside my friend's window-tint workshop. Unfortunately the prestine condition of the Accord Modulo also meant that the paintwork reflected parts of the workshop clearly and I think this spoils the photos a little. Nevertheless, I think the great looks of the Accord still shows up fine in the photos. In use, the 2.4l Accord MMC was great to drive. It has a much better throttle response than the pre-MMC unit that I tested. When driving around city roads, unsafe speeds approaching 120kph and upwards were reached without any effort, such was the strong mid-range torque from the engine. I have also dyno'ed the car to check its power and will be publishing the results as well as comparing it to the pre-MMC Accord in a follow-up article in a short while. In the meantime, enjoy the photos. Wong KN

December 2006

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These photos are taken inside a workshop.

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