Yes. My BMW got an electrical gremlin and I felt betrayed having only gotten 200k out of it (2013!) and so I felt I needed to try to like a different car. I went to the dealer and tried a civic, a Corolla (exactly like a weed eater with a seat and steering wheel) THEN got into the accord. I said out loud “this is more like what I am accustomed to”.... I should have walked away and Thought more about it. But I put 30k a year on cars so....yeah. My thought process was that “Hondas last a long time. You get 300k out of them”. (I was very enthusiastic and happy with all of my many Hondas before I got onto the BMW habit-so I figured it was a good car) I don’t doubt that they are ok cars, in many ways, but I really don’t care if this car goes 300,000 miles, I don’t even wanna go 3 miles in the hideous thing. To put an additional thousand dollars for fixing the sound in this car and still be driving around in an ugly looking front wheel drive thing, that’s awful. I didn’t think all of this through. I had no idea that I would not be able to handle this. I thought I could handle it. Some concessions simply should not be made in life. Don’t even get me started about the floor liners that are made of plastic! I feel like I’m on a city bus. My foot slides ever so slowly, my left foot, as I’m driving. And the gas pedal, why would they put it like that? It’s about 3 inches away from the floorboard for Pete’s sake! And there’s literally no possible way to get comfortable in that wretched seat, ventilation be damned. Nothing can make that seat get to a comfortable setting. I have no idea how I ended up with this thing other than being upset about my BMW having to go to the doctor a couple times. Never act out of fear. My plan of action, I think, from here on out is to take the wretched thing and trade it in on a 440i ASAP and move on with my life and at least be able to feel happy and exhilarated about driving. The flawless sound of the Harman Kardon system that’s stock in a BMW is the least of the goodness of those cars. I had no idea how important it was. And don’t even get me started about this pathetic 2 L turbocharged four-cylinder compared to an absolutely beautifully smooth responsive in-line 6! And oh—-the front Wheel drive, OMG. I got out onto the main road and simply wanted to accelerate just like I would normally do -but wow -in that front wheel drive it’s terrifying. There is no precision driving instrument feel. In a BMW it’s all precision. Graceful. Effective. And I read that the top speed of this accord is 155! I would not feel confident going 100 miles an hour on a straight line desert highway in this front wheel drive. 140 in a bmw feels fast yes. But not perilous. But at my age, 50, I figured I don’t even need to go 100 anymore so who cares, another really stupid line of thinking on my part. It’s not that I want or need to go 100, but if I ever do, at least I don’t wanna feel like I’m going to inadvertently change lanes in the process because of the strange handling. Are these things a front wheel drive one Legger? Because that’s what it feels like. Very horrible. All I can say is don’t try heroin, and don’t try Bmw. Think about it: if you gave a heroin addict an aspirin he would hate the aspirin. Giving me this Honda accord when what I really need is a BMW makes me hate the accord. It’s no fault of the Honda. I’m sure they are ok in their own class but Asians and Germans are two different levels of acceptable. I’m sorry to give such a rough appraisal to the car that people on this site somehow like, but honestly it just is of no comparison to the BMW at all whatsoever. It’s an insult to the bmw to try to compare the two actually. And reactions from friends and family—nobody would belive me when I told them I bought it. One thought I was driving a rental! Lololol.
