In our neighborhood there's a relatively straight-looking pre-facelift 4th Generation Honda Accord, a 1990 model, going by its Laurel Blue paint job. It even has the little motorized seatbelt gerbils, and is still doing yeoman service as a daily driver.
The current Civic sedan rides on the same length of wheelbase, is three inches wider, an inch taller, about three hundred pounds heavier, and has 38% more power. Broadly speaking, the automotive downsizing trend probably slowed and reversed sometime in the early Nineties.
A 1990 Accord LX sedan started at about fifteen grand, roughly half the MSRP of a base '25 Civic LX four-door. (Of course, adjusted for inflation that 15k in GHWB dollars is about thirty-six thousand Trump Bucks.)
This one was photographed in November of 2021 using an Olympus E-510 and a Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II zoom lens.
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