The Honda Accord is slightly larger than the Toyota Camry. Comparing the two cheapest trims from both brands, Toyota’s Camry is more expensive.
If you’re in the market for a new mid-size sedan, two of your best options would naturally be the top two best-selling vehicles in the category: the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord. While the Camry topped the list for the best-selling mid-size sedan in 2025, the Accord came out on top on Car and Driver’s list in the same year. The battle between the Camry and the Accord for mid-size dominance has been going on for the past four decades, with the roots of this legendary rivalry tracing back to 1976 when Honda debuted the Accord.
The Accord ended up being a major success for Honda, prompting Toyota to launch a rival, the Camry, in 1982. From that moment on, the two have been locked in a constant battle for the attention of American buyers. Considering these cars are still selling in good numbers, the rivalry is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Interestingly, while both the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry fall firmly in the mid-size category — thereby being similar in overall dimensions — there are subtle differences in their size as well as their prices. There are now many generations of the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry, with plenty of years to avoid if you’re looking to buy. We even did a head-to-head comparison in our review of the 2018 models. However, here we will focus on the latest models from the two brands.The Honda Accord is (slightly) bigger
As of this writing, Honda had not released all of the details of its 2026 Accord model, but from what we do know, the 2026 Accord is the larger vehicle, albeit by a small margin. It is the longer of the two, stretching 195.7 inches bumper to bumper, compared to the 2026 Camry’s 193.5 inches. Similarly, the Accord is slightly wider at 73.3 inches, compared to the Camry’s 72.4 inches. As for truck space, the 2025 Accord’s trunk can gobble up 16.7 cubic feet of cargo, which is also slightly more than the Camry’s 15.1 cubic feet.
Once you get inside these vehicles, however, that’s when the size differences between the two become more pronounced. Take the passenger volume metric as an example. The larger size of the 2025 Accord ensures that it gets 105.7 cubic feet of passenger volume in its base model. The numbers are slightly lower in other trims at 102.8 cubic feet. In comparison, the Camry maxes out at 99.9 cubic feet. It’s a similar story when it comes to other metrics like overall legroom and trunk space. The Accord offers 40.8 inches of leg room in the rear seats, compared to the Camry’s 38 inches.
These may look like small numerical differences, but for families or long-distance travelers, every extra inch counts. If your primary focus is to buy the bigger of these two vehicles, the Honda Accord is your better option. Then again, a major purchase decision like this shouldn’t just be based on a single metric. Let’s take a quick look at how these cars fare in other aspects like engine options and pricing.The Toyota Camry’s simplest trim is more expensive
While the Honda Accord has more trim options, the Toyota Camry has the capacity for more power. Toyota offers the 2026 Camry in five trims (LE, SE, Nightshade, XLE, and XSE). All variants feature a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine mated to a hybrid system capable of producing 232 horsepower. In contrast, the latest generation of the Honda Accord comes in six trims (LX, SE, Sport Hybrid, EX-L Hybrid, Sport-L Hybrid, and Touring Hybrid). The two base variants (LX and SE) deliver 192 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and use a conventional gas engine. Step up into the Sport Hybrid, EX-L Hybrid, Sport-L Hybrid, or Touring Hybrid models, however, and you’re met with a 204-horsepower hybrid system.
As for the pricing, the base variant of the Toyota Camry (LE) starts at $29,000, which is slightly higher than the base Honda Accord trim (LX), which starts at $28,295. The SE trim of the Camry is slightly pricier at $31,300 and is on par with the Accord SE, which costs $30,560. The Nightshade option of the Toyota Camry, which is new in its 2026 offerings, starts at $33,825. Pricing for the higher-end XLE and XSE trims of the Camry start at $35,525 and $36,725, respectively. As for the Hybrid Accords, pricing for the base Sport Hybrid variant starts at $33,655, going up to $34,940 for the EX-L Hybrid, $35,375 for the Sport-L Hybrid, and $39,300 for the Touring Hybrid variant. What is interesting about the pricing is that while the top-end Toyota Camry XSE maxes out at $34,900, Honda’s Touring Hybrid is considerably more expensive at $39,300.

This week, researchers reported on a new biopsy tool that can detect HPV-associated head and neck cancer up to 10 years before symptoms appear. Researchers developed a process to transform two-dimensional paintings into full-color, three-dimensional holograms, providing a new way to experience art in a gallery setting. And Chinese scientists designed a physical cassette capable of storing massive amounts of data encoded as DNA on a polyester-nylon tape substrate.
researchers reported on a new biopsy tool that can detect HPV-associated head and neck cancer up to 10 years before symptoms appear. Researchers developed a process to transform two-dimensional paintings into full-color, three-dimensional holograms, providing a new way to experience art in a gallery setting. And Chinese scientists designed a physical cassette capable of storing massive amounts of data encoded as DNA on a polyester-nylon tape substrate.
Hey, it’s the weekend, time to lounge around in comfortable trackwear and toss back a tall cold one, even though a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators found that tall cold ones can disrupt the regenerative abilities of the only human organ that regenerates—the liver. Specifically, the study concludes that excessive alcohol consumption can trap liver cells in a state between their functional and regenerative modes, the result of inflammation that disrupts RNA splicing during the protein-making process.
Auinash Kalsotra, who co-led the study, says, «We knew that the liver stops functioning and stops regenerating in patients with alcohol-related hepatitis and cirrhosis, even when a patient has discontinued consuming alcohol, but we didn’t know why… The only real life-saving treatment option once a patient reaches the liver failure stage in those diseases is transplantation. But if we understood why these livers were failing, maybe we could intervene.» The researchers hope to use misspliced RNAs as diagnostic markers for disease and to develop treatments that curb liver inflammation.
Thanks to advanced instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, astronomy and astrophysics are enjoying a renaissance of entirely new discoveries, often upending longstanding theories about the origin and evolution of the universe. This isn’t hyperbole—while Webb has revealed a proliferation of objects in the ancient universe called «little red dots», which may be weird early galaxies or could instead be a newly theorized object called a «black hole star», LIGO has been providing three-dimensional data on massive gravitational collisions with increasingly high resolution.
LIGO detects gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that encode information about their sources. Usually, these sources are black holes. Since 2015, the observatory has recorded over 300 collisions of black holes. When a black hole pair merges, the newly combined object creates a massive recoil, emitting gravitational waves unevenly, an imbalance in which a black hole remnant blob kicks away at thousands of kilometers per second.
An international research team has made the first measurement of the speed and direction of a recoiling black hole that resulted from a merger detected in 2019. It kicked away at speeds more than 50 kilometers per second, escaping its globular cluster, and the researchers measured its recoil direction with respect to Earth.
Dr. Koustav Chandra, a researcher at Penn State, says, «This is one of the few phenomena in astrophysics where we’re not just detecting something—we’re reconstructing the full 3D motion of an object that’s billions of light-years away, using only ripples in spacetime. It’s a remarkable demonstration of what gravitational waves can do.»
There’s a longstanding theory that primordial black holes explode at the end of their lives. But this would only occur about once every 100,000 years. A new study by physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds that these may instead occur once every 10 years, and that there’s a better than 90% probability that such an explosion could be observed within the decade. The study recommends that astronomers begin preparing now to make the observation.
The detection of an exploding black hole would represent confirmation of the existence of primordial black holes, which physicists believe formed in the extraordinarily dense universe less than one second after the Big Bang. Unlike black holes in the contemporary universe, these were not formed by the collapse of a large object like a star, but by the very conditions that prevailed in the moments after the Big Bang.
The measurements of such an explosion would provide a definitive catalog of all existing subatomic particles, possibly including those that are completely unknown to science. Researcher Iguaz Juan says, «This would be the first-ever direct observation of both Hawking radiation and a PBH. We would also get a definitive record of every particle that makes up everything in the universe. It would completely revolutionize physics and help us rewrite the history of the universe.»
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