What’s New for the 2025 Honda Accord?

The 2025 Honda Accord continues largely unchanged from 2024 save for swapping out the EX trim for the new SE. It’s still relatively fresh off its full redesign for 2023 and comes with a choice of hybrid and non-hybrid powertrains. Buyers may notice a bit more standard equipment on each trim for the 2025 model, but aside from that, Honda’s not ready to change all that much just yet.

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What’s New for 2025?

The biggest news for 2025 is the discontinuation of the EX trim along with the introduction of a new, slightly sportier SE trim to take its place. The SE features black exterior accents and black 17-inch alloy wheels along with features from the 2024 EX, including heated front seats, a 10-way power-adjustable driver’s seat, eight-speaker sound system and moonroof.

Standard equipment across the lineup gets a bit of an upgrade, as well. All Accords now feature rear air-conditioning vents and two USB-C ports for backseat passengers; all hybrid models now include heated front seats and a wireless phone charger; and the top Touring trim also gets a standard heated steering wheel.

Trim Levels and Pricing

The 2025 Honda Accord is available now, and aside from the swap of the EX for the new SE, all trim levels remain the same for 2025: LX, SE, Sport, EX-L, Sport-L and Touring. The more loaded trims are exclusively available with a hybrid powertrain. Read our more detailed breakdown of what each trim includes for 2025. Pricing is as follows (all prices include $1,095 destination fee; changes from 2024 are in parentheses):

Accord

• LX: $29,390 (up $400)
• SE: $31,655 (up $650 over EX)

Accord Hybrid

• Sport: $34,750 (up $760)
• EX-L: $36,035 (up $400)
• Sport-L: $36,470 (up $500)
• Touring: $40,395 (up $410)

Accord buyers have an array of colors to choose from, three of which aren’t grayscale. Solar Silver Metallic (a medium-hue silver) and Crystal Black Pearl are available as no-cost standard colors on every trim, with Meteorite Gray Metallic (dark gray) and Canyon River Blue Metallic (dark blue) offered on certain mid-grade and higher-level trims. For an additional $455, buyers can choose from Platinum White Pearl or Radiant Red Metallic on all trims, or Still Night Pearl (a darker blue than Canyon River) or Urban Gray Pearl (a less shiny medium gray) on select higher trims.

Powertrain Specs and MPG

The Accord features two powertrains that carry over from the 2024 model year. The non-hybrid LX and SE trims get a turbocharged 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine that makes 192 horsepower and 192 pounds-feet of torque. The Sport, EX-L, Sport-L and Touring are all hybrids and get a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine paired with a dual-motor hybrid system that has a combined output of 204 hp and 247 pounds-feet of torque. Sorry, manual fans: A continuously variable automatic transmission is the only option across the lineup. Both versions of the Accord are exclusively front-wheel drive.

Fuel economy for the two non-hybrid 2025 Accord trims is 29/37/32 mpg city/highway/combined, while the hybrid EX-L and Sport-L hybrid trims get 51/44/48 mpg, per the EPA. You pay a slight penalty in fuel economy for the Sport and Touring trims, however, with those clocking in at 46/41/44 mpg.

Tech Features

Inside, the gas-only Accords feature a 10.2-inch digital instrument panel and a 7-inch infotainment touchscreen with a Wi-Fi hot spot and wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The hybrid Accords get upgraded to wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto along with a 12.3-inch central infotainment touchscreen. The Touring also gets a 6-inch head-up display, heated and ventilated front seats, and heated outboard rear seats.

Honda also thankfully listened to us and kept a physical volume knob for the audio system. The base LX gets a four-speaker audio system, whereas higher trims upgrade to eight speakers and the top Touring trim gets a 12-speaker Bose system.

Safety and Driver-Assistance Features

The 2024 Honda Accord earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s highest Top Safety Pick+ award for its near-perfect scores in IIHS crash tests; with so little changing for 2025, we expect it to be similarly safe. Every 2025 Accord gets an extensive suite of safety and driver-assist features that include forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, lane departure steering assist, lane-centering steering, rear-seat reminder, traffic-jam assist and traffic-sign recognition.

All trims excepting the base LX get rear cross-traffic alert and blind spot warnings as standard, and front and rear parking sensors are included on the EX-L and Touring. The Touring trim also includes low-speed braking control, which can hit the brakes when it detects a person or object in the car’s path at low speeds, such as when backing out of a garage or looking for a parking spot.

This generation of Accord also got stellar marks in our Car Seat Check, where there was lots of room for a child car seat even when the front seats were adjusted for a 6-foot-tall driver. However, the Accord’s rear head restraints got in the way when fitting forward-facing convertible and booster seats, and it can only hold two car seats — not three — in the back row.

Should You Buy a 2024 or 2025 Honda Accord?

With so little changing from year to year, our answer to this question might as well be “yes.” The 2025 model packs some additional standard features for each trim, but you’ll pay a little extra for them, too. Unless you’re particularly enamored with the SE trim over the EX, it’s probably worth considering remaining 2024 models and trying to angle for a good deal.

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