If you're on the hunt for a sedan that can handle your daily commutes as well as your adventures around Dartmouth, New Bedford, and Fall River, MA, you're in a helpful place! The 2021 Nissan Altima and the 2021 Honda Accord offer a variety of impressive features, including powerful engines, top-notch interior technologies, and advanced safety features.

How can you possibly choose between the two? We at Dartmouth Nissan have put together this 2021 Nissan Altima vs. Honda Accord car comparison to help you answer that. Read ahead to see how these sedans stack up against each other!

2021 Nissan Altima vs 2021 Honda Accord: Interior Dimensions & Comforts

As class competitors, the 2021 Nissan Altima and 2021 Honda Accord have quite a few features in common. With both vehicles, you'll have four doors, five seats, and more than 15 cubic feet of cargo room to utilize in the trunk.

However, you'll find that the 2021 Altima has a bit more wiggle room to offer passengers. This model provides 43.8 inches of front-seat legroom, while the Honda Accord only offers 42.3 inches of legroom to front-seat passengers. There's more rear shoulder room inside the Nissan Altima as well-57.1 inches of it, to be exact. The Accord model's interior only brings 56.5 inches of rear shoulder room.

These vehicles are pretty comfortable as well. For instance, both the Altima and the Accord offer heated front seating, as well as a heated steering wheel. Leather-trimmed seating is also provided in certain Altima and Accord trim levels, bringing a bit of elegance to their respective interiors.

Nissan Altima vs Honda Accord: Infotainment & Connectivity

Both the Altima and Accord are equipped with a variety of standard technology features, including infotainment screens. Unfortunately, the Honda Accord falls short of the connective technologies included in the Nissan Altima.

Only offered with Nissan vehicles is the NissanConnect® Services. Part of this feature includes NissanConnect® Service Skills with Amazon Alexa™, and NissanConnect® Service Skills with Google Assistant. These skills are voice activated and make it possible to lock or unlock your Altima, start your engine, and more.

With NissanConnect®, you can also create customized driving alerts, create a journey planner, and even have emergency services and roadside assistance at your fingertips.

Honda does offer something similar with HondaLink®, in terms of accessing your vehicle via app and roadside assistance, but neither Amazon Alexa™ nor Google Assistant service skills are offered with Honda.

With these handy items accompanying you on your journey inside your 2021 Nissan Altima, you can easily stay in touch with friends and family without steering your attention away from the road.

Nissan Altima vs Honda Accord: Specs

When you're behind the wheel of a sporty sedan, you want to make sure that you're armed with plenty of power. Luckily, the 2021 Altima offers an available turbocharged engine.

It comes in the form of an impressive 2.0L Variable Compression Turbo (VC-Turboâ„¢) engine, complete with 248 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque. Unfortunately, the Honda Accord doesn't offer any turbo engine options. Even more, its highest performing engine only provides 181 horsepower and 232 lb-ft of torque, much less than the Altima model's highest engine.

Harnessing all that power in the Nissan Altima is an Xtronic CVT® (Continuously Variable Transmission). This piece of engineering provides smooth, effortless performance no matter where the road takes you. Additionally, standard Active Ride Control takes the jostle out of bumpy streets by applying the brakes and adjusting engine torque, as necessary. The result? A more peaceful ride every time.

While the 2021 Honda Accord also presents a standard CVT, it doesn't offer the same fluid performance of the system found in its Nissan competitor. Plus, without standard features like Active Ride Control, a commute inside the Honda Accord may not be quite as relaxing.

In addition, Nissan offers the available Intelligent All-Wheel Drive system as part of the Nissan Intelligent Mobilityâ„¢ suite. This system constantly monitors driving, and checks for any potentially hazardous driving conditions like snow, ice, or rain.

Should any issues arise in terms of traction or control, the system will respond in the blink of an eye to send power to the wheels that will provide the best traction. With the Intelligent All-Wheel Drive system on board, drivers of the Altima can feel more confident in low traction conditions.

The 2021 Honda Accord only offers front-wheel drive for their vehicles.

 

Nissan Altima vs Honda Accord: Safety Comparison

Both the 2021 Altima and 2021 Accord were designed with the safety of you and your loved ones in mind. As such, they both boast an array of features that actively monitor your surroundings and behavior to help avoid collisions, all with the goal of keeping your family out of harm's way.

Nissan Intelligent Mobility™ and Honda Sensing® Safety and Driver-Assistive Technologies are the safety suites for their respective brands.

Features of Nissan Intelligent Mobilityâ„¢ include:

  • Blind Spot Warning: By monitoring your blind spot area, this system will send a warning if a vehicle is detected hiding there. You'll never be left unadvised again.
  • Automatic Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection: Here, the brakes can automatically engage to help avoid a frontal collision or lessen the severity of an impact.
  • High Beam Assist: If an oncoming vehicle is detected, High Beam Assist will automatically deactivate the high beams, reactivating them once the driver has passed.
  • Rear Cross Traffic Alert: This available system examines the rear of your Altima, warning about cars approaching from either side.

The Honda Sensing® Safety and Driver-Assistive Technologies offer features like:

  • Collision Mitigation Braking Systemâ„¢
  • Blind Spot Information System (BSI) with Cross Traffic Monitor
  • Auto High-Beam Headlights

To up the ante on your safety, the 2021 Nissan Altima equips you with a standard Intelligent Driver Alertness system. If this gadget senses that your steering patterns are off, you'll receive an alert on the information display. With this, you'll know exactly when to pull over and grab another cup of coffee before continuing on with your adventure.

Although the Honda Accord has a few updated driver-assistive features of its own, it doesn't provide you with any amenity similar to the Intelligent Driver Alertness system. Unfortunately, this simply leaves a little something behind in this vehicle in terms of safety.

2021 Nissan Altima vs 2021 Honda Accord: The Verdict

While the 2021 Honda Accord has some good features, the 2021 Nissan Altima outdoes it. Now that you've had a taste of what the Altima can do, it's time to browse our inventory and get behind the wheel to experience it for yourself.

Drivers near Dartmouth, New Bedford, and Fall River, Massachusetts, should call our Nissan dealership to schedule a test drive today!

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