The Ascot CB exists because of a sales-channel puzzle: Honda's Primo dealerships needed their own Accord-based sedan to sell.
Median 130 hp across 343 similar cars
Lead trim: 1.8 F18A SOHC · up to 148 hp
Honda Ascot CBCB1/CB2/CB3/CB4 · 1989–1993
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FactThe Ascot CB exists because of a sales-channel puzzle: Honda's Primo dealerships needed their own Accord-based sedan to sell.
A Japan-only compact sedan, born of Honda's strategy of diversifying its Japanese sales channels (Clio, Primo and Verno stores) and created as an Accord sister car for the Primo network, when the fourth-generation Accord (CB) went solely to Clio. Technically identical to the Accord sedan with the same dashboard, it had unique sheetmetal, Inspire headlights, a six-light greenhouse, a formal grille and a rear plate indented in the bumper, with an LED high-mounted brake light in the boot spoiler. Five trims: the FB and FBX with the 1.8 L, the 2.0Si and 2.0FBX-i mid-range, and the top 2.0FBT-i with four-wheel anti-lock discs, traction control, a viscous-coupling differential, mechanical four-wheel steering and four-wheel double wishbones on the 2.0 PGM-FI engine. The two displacements let owners choose their annual road tax. The name refers to Ascot Racecourse and the Ascot tie.
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Trims & Figures
3 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 F18A SOHC | 1989–1993 | 1.8 L Inline-4 | 104 hp | 106 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 2.0 F20A DOHC PGM-FI | 1989–1993 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 148 hp | 137 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 2.0 F20A1 SOHC | 1989–1993 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 133 hp | 134 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
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Photographs
Unlike its Accord cousin and nearly every other front-drive Honda, this Ascot mounted its engine longitudinally, front-to-back, to balance weight between the axles instead of side-to-side.
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The Ascot CB exists because of a sales-channel puzzle: Honda's Primo dealerships needed their own Accord-based sedan to sell.
Rivals
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