The luxury sedan known as the Honda Inspire was first introduced to the auto market by Honda in the year 1990. The Honda Inspire is based on the chassis of the Honda Accord.
The Honda Inspire was initially called the Accord Inspire at the time of its unveiling in the year 1990. It was meant as a sister vehicle to the Honda Vigor, which had been exported to the United States of America under the name of the Acura Vigor. Essentially, the two models were the same car, but headed for different retail segments in Japan at the time. This version of the Vigor represented a major departure for Honda. Whereas the 1980s Vigors had basically been badge Configurationered Accord, the new generation of Vigor was a decidedly up market vehicle that was built on its own platform, with a longitudinal Configuration similar to the second generation Acura Legend.
In Japan, there would be four sedans released between the Honda Civic and the Honda Legend. They included the four cylinder Honda Accord and Honda Ascot, as well as the five cylinder Honda Vigor and Honda Inspire vehicles.
In the year 1995, both the Honda Inspire and the Honda Vigor were replaced. The export version of the Honda Inspire was renamed the Acura TL at this point in time.
