Well your Accord was never made here, and size wise, it's more equivalent to our Civic. (Which has 60/40. But no rear armrest - at least on pre 06 models). It really has nothing to do with U.K. vs. U.S. comp. It has everything to do with what the average Accord Buyer is likely to need. Most new Accord buyers are 30-50 year olds, middle to upper middle class. I think I read somewhere online the average Accord owners annual combined household (with spouse I suppose) income is about 80-100k a year, and the big one, most have more than one car in their household. I know about 15 people that have Accords with Pilots or Odyssey's in their driveway (CR-V's too, but not so much) so I believe that one. Probably, instead of spending that money on a split fold, they'd rather have an excellent powerplant, nice seats, a few extras etc. I'd take any of those over a split seat and loosing my pass through. It's much more useful than a split fold. (James, does your Accord have an Armrest, and a pass through? I'm betting it has an armrest and not the pass through. I'd like to know. ) Either way, we as Americans and maybe just the consumer public in gerneral are greedy little 'biotches'. Honda gives us the only car in the segment (as far as I know) with remote controlled windows, and we say "Hey why doesn't this go up too! I actually have to WALK to my CAR and turn the key in the door to roll it up? What's up with that!". Sometimes we just need to be thankful for what was given to you at a very minimal price compared to previous models.
