2006 DC Design Accord

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The 2006 DC Design Accord was a heavily restyled concept based on the Honda Accord and shown at the 2006 New Delhi Auto Expo. It was built by DC Design, the Indian coachbuilder founded by Dilip Chhabria, and turned a mainstream family sedan into something closer to a low-slung sports coupe.

The biggest change was visual. DC Design replaced the Accord’s conservative sedan shape with a much more aggressive body, using a sharp nose, wider stance, deep side sculpting, and scissor doors. The result barely read as an Accord from the outside, which was the point. This was not a factory Honda concept. It was a coachbuilt styling exercise showing how far DC Design could push a familiar donor car.

The concept is usually listed as a coupe or sports-car-style build, even though it started from the Accord nameplate. Public technical details are thin, and there is no reliable evidence that DC Design significantly re-engineered the drivetrain. Because of that, it is safer to treat it as an Accord-based design prototype rather than a true performance car.

What makes it interesting is the context. In 2006, India’s custom-car scene was still relatively young on the global stage, and DC Design was one of the few Indian firms creating attention-grabbing one-off concepts with international-style show-car drama. The Accord concept was not subtle or practical, but it did exactly what it needed to do: make a common sedan look exotic.

The DC Design Accord never became a production model, and verified specs remain limited. Its value is in the transformation. It took a sensible Honda platform and turned it into a scissor-door concept car, proving how much visual identity can change when a coachbuilder ignores factory restraint.