Big Honda sedan concept a sure-fire Legend?

With the oncediminutive Civic sedan having morphed into quite a big vehicle, Honda has quietly dropped its Accord nameplate in many markets, including New Zealand.

Not so in the US though, where a 2018 model year Accord remains on sale. It’s a challenging time to be producing a large sedan, as the default shape of the roomy family vehicle has shifted from the 20thcentury sedan to the 21st-century SUV.

Not only does Honda still sell the Accord in the US, rumours suggest it might be unveiling a new iteration of the granddaddy sedan of them all; the Legend.

Acura — the US market badge for “flash” Hondas (think what Infiniti is to Nissan) — is set to reveal a concept car at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in August. American motoring outlet Car & Driver has it on good authority that the car will be a large sedan-shaped thing, leading speculators to suggest the Legend nameplate could be revived.

Acura showed off a MercedesBenz S-Class Coupe-style concept called the Precision at the Detroit motor show in January, that was designed to signpost its future styling language. Despite being an offshoot of Honda, it was about as far removed from the parent company’s crowd-pleasing Urban EV hatchback as you can get.

But could a Precision-based car with two extra doors be in the works? We’ll have to wait to find out if the Legend — in the US at least — is making a comeback.