2024 Honda Accord Spied with Smooth Next-Generation Design

• This is the next-generation Honda Accord, which is likely to arrive next year as a 2024 model.

• Honda intends for the hybrid to become a more significant part of the lineup and aims for it to make up 50 percent of sales.

• We think the turbo 1.5-liter and 2.0-liter gas engines will carry over.

The Accord may no longer be Honda's bread and butter—that would be the CR-V crossover nowadays—but the perennially 10Best-winning sedan is set to enter a new generation soon. These spy photos show its new design, which appears to be clean, simple, and not radically different from the current 10th-generation model that's been around since the 2018 model year.

Up front, narrow headlights flank what looks to be a relatively unassuming grille. There's minimal surfacing along the sides, and the taillights appear to stretch the width of the rear end and wrap around onto the fenders.

Honda has confirmed that it intends to make the next-generation Accord hybrid a larger part of the sales mix, as the company is aiming for hybrid versions to make up at least 50 percent of sales for the CR-V, Accord, and Civic models. Honda also says that the hybrids will be the "top and best performing models in the lineup." We hope this means that the current 212-hp Accord hybrid will gain power, and not that Honda plans on dropping the more powerful 252-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four engine option from the Accord. The turbocharged 1.5-liter inline-four is likely to remain the base engine, although it may have some revisions.