2010 Honda Accord Crosstour Review

Cars.com's Kelsey Mays takes a look at the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour and its important new features.

2010 Honda Accord Crosstour Review Hi! I'm Kelsey Mays for Cars.com. With me the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour, the wagon version of the current Accord Sedan that also offers all wheel drive. When Honda first introduced pictures of the Crosstour people across Facebook, Twitter, E-maroon kicking tires blog kind of revolted. They call the car disgusting, hideous and even quote “a clustered”, that last one is kind of funny actually. We’ll talk about styling. We’ll talk about what effect it has on the car’s utility and overall driver friendliness compared to some of the other wagon like cars and crossovers you can get. The biggest lightning rod for criticism seems to be this grill. Really dominates the front end, much more so on the grill on the Accord Sedan does. As you go back, the profile kind of culminates in this jelly beanish rear end here. Either you like it or you hate it. I‘m going to say, it doesn’t look nearly as bad in person as photos and probably videos like this might have you think. Unfortunately, that’s sloping profile doesn’t really help out the cargo situation. You’ll notice that there's not a lot of vertical space here. It’s kind of locked off by the hatch that comes down. Behind the second row seats, you’re looking it at about 25 cubic feet of cargo volume. Honda answer is this under floor storage box here. It’s nice, it adds a little bit of extra space. It’s got this reversible cover. You can kind of wipe down with the hard plastic flooring on the other side. You can fold the seats down with these levers here another convenience. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of space between the wheel wills to kind of shoe horn things in. With the seats down, you’re looking it about 50 cubic feet of maximum cargo volume. But if you compare the Crosstour to cars like the Subaru out back, the Toyota Avanza, the Nissan Murano, the Ford Edge. All of those have more than 30 cubic feet behind the second row and 60 or 70 cubic feet with their seats down. The design affect things from the driver seat too, the window narrow and kind of loan. It’s got this bar that splits it across the middle. There's pretty substantial de-pillars too. So I think a lot of drivers are going to find that this car is pretty big blind spot with its DNA from the well received Accord Sedan, the Crosstour does deliver a solid driving experience and respectable cabin quality. But the more you investigate, the more the utility storages don’t add up. People who want to toss stuff should know that Crosstour maxis out of 1500 pounds, that’s 500 more in the Accord Sedan but 2,000 pounds less than the Avanza, the Murano or the Ford Edge. People who are driving a lot of heavy snow want to know that ground clearance is only six inches, again, well short of the competition. Sometimes a car can defy all its logic and make you just kind of want to get one anyway. Cars from the Mazda 3 to the infinity EX 35 kind of examples of these but there are nothing about the Crosstour that really jumps out and makes me want to go get one anyway. Especially compared to all the other wagon things in the segment you could buy. For more car related news, go to Cars.com, for our blog, KickingTires.net.