The good news is that Honda's board of directors has given the green light to the launch of a new Prelude, a model that disappeared from the catalog in 2001, and which will be marketed worldwide. In fact, the car would have already been in development for some time and would be launched “mid-decade.” So we're almost there. The bad news is that a chief engineer wanted to make things clear: the Prelude will be a coupe with a hybrid gasoline engine, but in no case will it be a sports car. Therefore, we should not see in it a rival to the toyota GR86, for example.
Potential ?
Consequently, we wonder what their real commercial potential will be, knowing that “bourgeois” coupes are a species on the verge of extinction, or almost. Nowadays, to exist as a coupe, you have to promise a good dose of driving fun, or operate under the banner of a high-end brand, or obviously both.
The future sling Prelude, therefore, will not have any of these arguments. Hopefully there will be more, because the last time the brand launched a coupe hybrid With no real sporting ambitions, it was called CR-Z. Do you remember ?
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