{"id":711214,"date":"2010-04-07T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/07\/review-2010-honda-accord-crosstour-hatches-a-new-niche\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:57:00","slug":"review-2010-honda-accord-crosstour-hatches-a-new-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/711214","title":{"rendered":"Review: 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour hatches a new niche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/crossovers-cuvs\/\" rel=\"tag\">Crossover<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hatchbacks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hatchback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/honda\/\" rel=\"tag\">Honda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/reviews\/\" rel=\"tag\">Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-honda-accord-crosstour-review\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/lead1hondacrosstourreview2010.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>2010 Honda Crosstour &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nIts introduction was a case study in how to bungle an automotive social media campaign. Badly. It had people running for thesauruses to find new and fascinating synonyms for &#8220;ugly.&#8221; Its TV campaign has something to do with jazz music and animals. And yet, for all the hubbub, hysterics and lamentations that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/honda\/\">Honda<\/a> had completely lost its mind, the 2010 Honda <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/accord+crosstour\">Accord Crosstour<\/a> quietly showed up and began finding customers. <\/p>\n<p>Last month &#8211; its best sales performance to date &#8211; 2,587 people drove the odd-looking hatchwagon home. Recently, we took delivery of our own Crosstour EX-L tester, loaded-up with all-wheel drive and navigation, to see how we felt about spending a week with Honda&#8217;s latest experiment.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-honda-accord-crosstour-review\/low\/\">Review: 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-honda-accord-crosstour-review\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/01hondacrosstourreview2010_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-honda-accord-crosstour-review\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/02hondacrosstourreview2010_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-honda-accord-crosstour-review\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/03hondacrosstourreview2010_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-honda-accord-crosstour-review\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/04hondacrosstourreview2010_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-honda-accord-crosstour-review\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/05hondacrosstourreview2010_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<em><strong><small>Photos by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drewphillipsphotography.com\/\">Drew Phillips<\/a> \/ <\/small><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><small>Copyright (C)2010<\/small><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><small> Weblogs, Inc.<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/07\/review-2010-honda-accord-crosstour-hatches-a-new-niche\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Review: 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour hatches a new niche<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/07\/review-2010-honda-accord-crosstour-hatches-a-new-niche\/\">Review: 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour hatches a new niche<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:57:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/07\/review-2010-honda-accord-crosstour-hatches-a-new-niche\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19428119\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/07\/review-2010-honda-accord-crosstour-hatches-a-new-niche\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Crossover, Hatchback, Honda, Reviews 2010 Honda Crosstour &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery Its introduction was a case study in how to bungle an automotive social media campaign. Badly. It had people running for thesauruses to find new and fascinating synonyms for &#8220;ugly.&#8221; Its TV campaign has something to do with jazz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Z1c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}