D'ELLA Honda of Glens Falls

Accord

 

Making the best cars is something Honda knows how to do and the 2018 Honda Accord is a great value anytime of the year. In the autumn, you have the advantage of special year-end pricing and dealer incentives. We have the 2018 Accord in stock, here at D’ELLA Honda of Glens Falls in Queensbury, NY. This newly redesigned Accord may be the best-looking Accord ever built. Car and Driver seems to agree, because the 2018 Honda Accord has won the 10 Best Award again. This makes 32 times the Honda Accord has received this honor.

The 2018 Accord sports classic elegance inside and out. A degree of sophistication you would expect in vehicles twice the cost of the new 2018 Honda Accord. The Accord, rides on a new platform, with new turbocharged engines. The infotainment system is user friendly and Apple CarPlay is standard. Plus, now all Accords are 4-door sedans.

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civ

The Honda Civic is not a vehicle that lives in the past. It just keeps getting better. The new 2018 Honda Civic is stylish, technologically up-to-date, fun to drive, and safe.

The new Civic is offered as a sedan, coupe or hatchback, and it’s available in five different models from the affordable LX to the EX-L and Touring versions. The available turbocharged engines produce as much as 306-horsepower so you can tailor the driving experience to suit your preferences. You will just have to visit us at D’ELLA Honda of Glens Falls and see for yourself why this automobile is a top seller and has such a large number of loyal owners.

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HR-V

When you take the best parts of urban cars, SUVs and hatchbacks, you get something entirely new and stunning from any angle. You get the unique blend of crossover utility and coupe-like styling. The new 2018 Honda HR-V from D’ELLA Honda Glens Falls is truly a vehicle of style and versatility. The stylish and modern grille features a chrome accent connecting the headlights and giving 2018 HR-V a confident presence on the road. Whether you’re picking up groceries, heading to the office or setting out on a long road trip, the HR-V offers remarkable adaptability.

Edmunds.com: “…we picked the 2018 Honda HR-V as one of Edmunds’ Best Small SUVs for this year.”

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2018 Honda CR-V

 

Distinctive headlights, taillights and sporty, sculpted panels create a design that has set the bar for SUVs and is illustrated by the 2018 Honda CR-V’s 10 Best Cars Award from Car and Driver. However, the award isn’t just about the design; it has a lot to do with the nuts and bolts of performance, handling, cutting-edge technology and safety.

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2018 honda ridgeline

The 2018 Honda Ridgeline has evolved the concept of the pickup truck, creating a modern smart truck aimed squarely at the actual needs of most pickup owners like you. The evolution entails a more conventional look than earlier Ridgeline models but still maintains the original, innovative Ridgeline tradition. The new Ridgeline presents a handsome, sensible, civilized pickup truck that is easy to drive and safe for both you and your passengers.

How safe is the 2018 Honda Ridgeline?

The NHTSA gave the 2018 Ridgeline a five-star overall rating (out of a possible five stars). Unlike conventional trucks, but like all cars and most modern SUVs, the 2018 Ridgeline is built as a unified construction rather than a body bolted to a separate frame. Also, the cab and bed are one piece, rather than two separate entities that are bolted together. So, the new Honda Ridgeline isn’t a conventional workhorse. There are no frontier-taming fantasies with the new Ridgeline because it aims right at your rationale. And rational it is. The composite bed will never rust and is scratch resistant. The built-in trunk is weather-tight, will hold more than just a tool box, and is lockable. The rear gate can either swing out like a door or open like any other truck.

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2018 fit a
If you are looking for a fun car to drive then the 2018 Honda Fit is what you may be looking for because the Honda Fit is fun to drive, flat out impressive and a solid value. When it comes to cargo capacity and overall utility the 2018 Honda Fit has no equal in its class. How about modern connectivity? Pretty much everything you want is either standard equipment or available in a package or trim level and yes, that includes ApplePlay and Android Auto so, you can tailor things to your liking.

Putting all of the tech features aside, you really need to take the 2018 Honda Fit for a drive and see how versatile this vehicle is and how well it will work in your life and how the Honda Fit …fits your transportation needs.

If you are wondering about fuel economy well, let’s just say the 2018 Honda Fit picks fuel costs up by the heels and shakes it until all the change falls out of its pockets.

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2018 Honda Accord

The legendary Accord has been totally redesigned, featuring sophisticated materials and an upscale look that makes you rethink the midsize sedan. The exterior is the result of bold design and thoughtful engineering, featuring LED headlights and taillights, an aerodynamic shape and strong character lines. The new Honda Accord has a longer wheel base which means a great ride and more room for the rear seat passengers. It is this kind of innovation that led the 2018 Honda Accord to be named the 2018 North American Car of the Year.

2018 Honda Accord Interior

The quiet cabin envelopes the driver and passengers in high-quality, soft-touch materials and an expansive front view for a perfect combination of elegance and confidence in the 2018 Honda Accord. Inside there is a new soft-touch instrument panel in a three-tier design, as well as a new steering wheel with thumb rests and available paddle shifters. Other details include:

  • Driver’s seat with 12-way adjustment
  • Front seats with heating and cooling
  • New infotainment system with 8.0-inch touchscreen
  • Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility
  • 60/40 split rear seat

Thoughtfully designed and engineered with precision, the 2018 Accord continues to offer value unmatched in its class.

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Celebrating the Unsung Heroes in Our Lives

Sometimes the people who have had the biggest impact on your life aren’t the people you would expect. Sometimes they are the people you would have otherwise overlooked. For me, Fathers’ Day has always been a sore subject. My dad was never really in the picture, so a day that celebrated awesome fathers stung a bit. This year, however, I realized that while I may not have had my biological father in my life, there were several men who stepped up to be the father figures I needed. They helped to shape me into the person I am today without me even realizing that that’s what they were doing.

Those 3 men who have been constants in my life are my grandfather, my uncle, and my high school math teacher. From my grandfather, I learned how to drive, change my tires, and the oil in my car. My uncle taught me the value of hard work and got me my first job at his shop working on cars. My math teacher taught me the value of learning, of respect, and how to be a leader. These three men made an effort to make me feel like I mattered and showed me that there were people out there that really cared about me.

In addition to all being positive role models to me, they all share a common thread. They were all in one of the branches of the armed forces. They fought to keep our country safe and now, they’re fighting just as hard for me. Much like I almost overlooked the impact these amazing men had on my life, many service men and women of our armed forces aren’t given nearly enough recognition for all that they do for our country. Fortunately, at D’ELLA Honda of Glens Falls, they have a special offer for members of the U.S. Military as a small token of appreciation for all that those brave men and women have done for our country.

This year for Fathers’ Day I will be celebrating and showing appreciation to the three men who have helped to shape me. At D’ELLA Honda of Glens Falls, now all of the unsung heroes who have fought to keep our country safe can be appreciated too!

 

Driving with My Daredevil Mother

My mother is not what most would call a cautious driver. Don’t get me wrong, she is an excellent driver, but I sometimes suspect she thinks that she is a Formula 1 driver. To be excruciatingly clear, she is most certainly not, but the way she makes sharp turns may leave you wondering if she was in a past life.

My earliest memory is of my mother driving my younger brother and me to school in our SUPER fly Honda CR-V circa 1996. She would make turns in that car on two wheels, and I promise you, even at age 5 I knew that such turns were somewhat risky maneuvers. My mother, on the other hand, seemed completely unphased by her vehicle defying all known laws of physics and gravity.

Oddly enough, when I was first learning to drive, my mother always put a strong emphasis on maintaining control over the vehicle. In retrospect, it seems ludicrous when you consider the stunts she pulled, but in the long run proved helpful to me. In an effort to teach me how to keep control of my vehicle in even the toughest situations, she would take me out to the high school parking lot in the middle of a blizzard or a monsoon and have me floor it, then immediately and forcefully break in an effort to teach me how to deal with a vehicle that has lost control.

At the time I would be praying to every deity I knew and frantically screaming that we were going to die, but my mother, every the calming force would verbally guide me through the steps to get out of those situations. I can’t even begin to say how glad I am that she went over those steps with me until I was bringing my car out of a spin out in my sleep, because one day over the summer on my way home from work, my car hydroplaned in the rain as I was making a slightly sharper turn than anticipated. By that point, righting my ever faithful 2011 Honda Accord, which I still have to this day, was basically second nature thanks to the muscle memory my mother helped to develop.

I guess my point is, while my mother’s methods were perhaps a bit more extreme than a sane person’s might be, my mother took that time to reinforce in me the correct and safe way to handle potentially unsafe situations. (Minus the turning on two wheels, seriously, never do that if you can help it.) Take the time to learn how your vehicle handles both snow and heavy rain in controlled environments so that you can plan accordingly. It could save your life down the road. Below I have listed some tips to help you if you find yourself spinning out of control due to slick weather.

  1. DO NOT BREAK. That could cause your car to spin out even more
  2. Turn your wheel in the opposite direction the front of your car is turning. So if the front of your car starts spinning to the left, turn your wheel to the right. This will help to straighten out your vehicle.
  3. Stay as calm as possible and remember not to turn your wheel too much. Turn the wheel in small increments until your vehicle is driving straight again.

 

May 19, 2017

I Lost My Dignity Somewhere In the Backseat: Reorganizing My Life

Tidiness is decidedly not one of my strengths, but over the years I have gotten better at keeping the clutter minimal. However, despite my best efforts to keep it clean, on occasion, my car gets a little “out of hand”. Ok, maybe a lot out of hand, but I’m working on it! The point is, even though the current state of my car is best described as “there appears to have been a struggle”, getting my car back to its former splendor is something I can do, and you can too.

Now, if your car is anywhere near the state mine is in, you’ll briefly consider taking a blowtorch to the whole thing and hope that something survives. DO NOT DO THAT. There might be approximately 5 billion tons of garbage back there, but laying waste to your precious car and having to deal with piles of ash and regret are not worth it. The first step is to sort through the clothes, garbage, and what little bits of dignity you can find back there and make piles of things to “save” and “trash”. But, let’s not fool ourselves, at this point there is no salvageable dignity to be found.

Now that your car is trash free and doesn’t let off a distinctly 2016 level terrible vibe, there is a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel. You can now start to vacuum up the dirt and inevitable shame that has embedded itself into the deepest parts of your carpet. You may need more than one pass with the vacuum, that shame is really clinging.

For your finishing touches, you can use a slightly damp cloth and wipe down your dashboard and gently clean out the vents. You don’t want to use a sopping wet cloth as too much water can do more harm than help, and let’s be real, you won’t need much excess water because at this point tears of joy are streaming down your face because you’ve done it. Your car is clean. It is now safe for friends and family to enter your car without having to wear a hazard suit and a distinctly disappointed expression. But none of that matters now, because you conquered your car, and now you can return to your natural habitat, known as the couch, with Netflix and a taco.