looks good, although not as good as last year’s fcx concept. i dunno why, but i’m getting an eighties vibe off of it.

also, first.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE PRESENT …. the Honda Prius.

UGLY …. in and out. Why can’t you produce low emissions and an atractive car?

Kudo’s to Honda for making it looks slightly better than a dog turd.

impulsive… unfortunately this design is partially out of necessity of efficiency.

I’m totally shocked to see how close this concept is to production though… now for the infrastructure.

IF IT STILL PRODUCES HALF THE EMISSIONS A NORMAL CAR DOES, THEN WHAT’S THE ****ING POINT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

LP640, hang yourself. NOW.

FOR THE LOVE OF PHUCK ITS A PRIUS

Perfect. All the hollywood celebs who need more sound bites about how ‘green’ they are can flog the first batch of these until the kinks are worked out. And when the FCX is in the shop, no problem, they can just commute to work in the Maybach or the Bentley. Heck, for the odd product plug here or there, Honda may even give them the lease for free. See? It’s win win for everyone!

Nice Honda I wish they would take it easy on the interior.
Only GM and the american car companies make dog turds and try to convince you to buy one bc its an American dog turd

C6Racer SHUT UP AND GET ME A TACO HOMBRE

WOW, that is VERY nice. The back needs a little work as to make it look less like a Prius. Over than that, the FCX is one of the most advanced, best looking, eco-friendly cars out there. Honda will have a real hit on its hands…..it’s only competition seems to be the Volt, which is still a few years away.

1115 - Why do you feel like you need to say “Only GM and the american car companies make dog turds and try to convince you to buy one bc its an American dog turd” in your comment. You throw that out there for NO reason…explain that please

Honda may be the only true green auto-maker, i really don’t like this thing, looks like a bloated civic, but one must give credit where credit is due.

Did Honda hire Toy Ota designers? ‘Cause this must be the ugliest thing since the Aztek.

And before you morons say the Aztek was designed by GM, yes, I know that you dolts. But Toy Ota is usually the one coming out with these ugly-ass designs.

Ick, what the **** is that?? Who decided slapping an off-color piece of flat plastic over the front end was a good idea?

The rear end obviously tries to recall the CRX, but instead looks like a Prius that’s been kicked in the ass.

I hope GM makes sure the Volt looks NOTHING like the Prius or this crapbox.

It just looks like a Prius to me. A better looking Prius mind you.

Don’t mind the interior though and I’m kinda liking the Instrument panel. It looks really futuristic looking yet functional. I also like the digital gauges. It works for this kind of car.

The actual concept unit when seen in person looked very very good. I was hoping to have this particular concept produced, I guess I got my wish afterall.

I’m not terribly pleased with the detail changes made to the “Clarity” version — where the concept FCX seemed Euro-futuristic, like a big brother to the Civic, the production model instead gets a dumbed-down US Honda Odyssey grille, VW Jetta bumper insert, black plastic triangles in place of the front quarter windows, generic wheels, and the Hybrid-obligatory glass-in-the-trunklid. I would have loved to see the FCX evolve into a groundbreaking Acura RL, but I guess that’s never happening now.

go to http://www.honda.com and see the solar powered Hydrogen refueling station using only sunlight and tap water to produce the fuel.. Pretty damm cool!! Zero emissions this way. $600 a month including maintenance and collision insurance…thats in line with a V-6 accord payment with insurance and maintanence…A pretty good deal for someone who wants to be a trendsetter. I hope it starts the movement off of oil. I wish I lived in a city that gets it, I would be a buyer(leasee).

I agree with Autonutt. Here are pics of the FCX concept: http://world.honda.com/news/2007/c070625FCXConcept/photo/index.html
I’m surprised Honda didn’t go with the wheels from the Insight/Civic Hybrid (or the damned sexy 7 spokes from the Concept) instead of the Civic EX wheels shown here. Also the ‘milk mustache’ bumper needs to be painted the body color, just like the FCX Concept. Other than that, they’ve stayed very close to the original, save necessary changes for safety compliance. If you look closely at the front, between the door and wheelwell, you can see this has been completely redesigned. This was probably done to place a crumple zone ahead of the passenger comapartment.

Hydrogen huh… Does anyone remember something called The Hindenburg? I’m sure Honda’s made safety a top concern, but I’d still be pretty nervous about this kind of thing. Still looks a little better than a Prius though.

1c3d0g!!! Did you come up with that play on words with “TOYota?” I swear… because I’ve NEVER heard that before! That’s completely new! COMPLETELY new and TOTALLY original! My God, TOYota, huh? TOYota… Never crossed my mind. It’s funny really! You know, because it’s SO original that I bet no one else on here knows how anyone could have ever thought that up. You must be a true genius or something, making up a play on words like that. TOYota… that’s really clever.

(sarcasm)

Thank you RobCali! I’m sooo glad you like my special designation for Toy Ota, even though you never heard of it before. And yes, I’m a real genius.

I applaud Honda’s efforts in alternative fuel technology, but this thing looks like the offspring of a fling between the Prius and Accord. Honda has a good reputation for quality, reliability, and technology, I just wish they could design a vehicle that looks as good as it operates.

In a way this lump of **** could pass as a modern day funky Citroen.

Does the $600/month include the hydrogen?

NICE! This is great, it’s so nice to see an automaker take the huge step forward to making a truly progressive vehicle in regards to energy consumption other than a traditional hybrid. I like how it looks, and the interior is great.

I’m continually amazed by the ****s on this site. Those of you criticizing this vehicle, go impale yourselves.

Whatevah, schizo. You’re an idiot. You have no taste in vehicle design. Go back to your goat pumping, loser.

I agree that this is a “Honda Prius!”

I am pretty sure LamborghiniZ drives around town with a plastic Lamborghini body kit screwed onto his 1977 280Z painted in primer gray trying to look cool and pick up male prostitutes, so let’s not give him any cred on auto design.

There’s not alot you can do when designing a car thats made for ultra efficiency. There is a reason that this car looks like a melted Prius, it allows for good interior room and i would susupect a pretty low drag.

How the hell are you going to produce the electricity to MAKE the hydrogen.

Coal vs Oil vs Nuclear vs Natural Gas vs Solar vs Thermal

Pick your future environmental protest target from the list.

Humans should be forced to ride a bike to save the earth.

Fido pinched a loaf to which Honda brought Clarity.

Whats the update? I don’t feel like re-reading and looking for what is new

270 miles on one tank is just simply unacceptable - i don’t care how good the mpg is.

Looks a lot like a prius. It will sell well.

Remember when the Insight came out back in 2000? (I think it debuted in Sept. 1999). Well, look 8 years later, hybrids are all over the place.

Folks, this is the future. In exactly 8 years, hydrogen-powered cars will be what hybrids are today, everyone is going to want one and you will see them a lot (how many Prius’s do you see around your area?)

Also, don’t forget GM’s Chevrolet Equinox fuel-cell program as well.

270 is in the range of what many cars this size get. So you get about the same mileage but in an environmentally friendly way. This car isn’t extending the total miles but that’s not what alternative fuels are about. They are about a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels.

rms492, I agree alternative fueled vehicles in 8 years will be a decent part of the overall vehicle market. Unfortunately I dont think Hydrogen will be the technology ‘everyone is going to want’ and we wont ’see them a lot’. The reason is infrastructure. It will take a lot to build the infrastructure to service/refuel hydrogen cars. With few places to fill up the demand wont be there.

The reason hybrids took hold over 8 years was because there was no infrastructure that needed to be built. We just had to wait for people to become comfortable with the technology.

8 years from now we will see a lot of alternative fuel vehicles. More mainstream hybrids than anything else. Hydrogen will be a very small part limited to certain areas of the country where some infrastructure will be built & the buyers dont plan on using the car to leave those hydrogen areas on extended trips - gas portion of hydro/gas cars like the 7 series only get about 150 miles per tank.

It has got style, features and practicality. It has got everything that would appeal to a scientist or an engineer. It has got sensibility too. Not only can hydrogen be produced entirely from solar power plus natural gas (or water), the seat upholstery and door lining in this car are home-made by Honda without using petroleum. If there is someone who must really detest a design like this, it has to be the Arab Sheikhs and everybody else rolling in petroleum dollars.

Now to address some of the “concerns”… the rear design is more about function than form. An engineer would know. Most folks around won’t have a clue (besides drawing comparisons to everything they detest). Raising the rear deck improves aerodynamics. The entire rear design is to reduce drag, a concept not unique to Prius. In fact, some of you might not have even heard about Insight (which was based on a concept, 1997 Honda JV-X). The same design is seen in Chevrolet Volt concept. And in recently revealed Honda CR-Z which is meant to be a revival of CRX. And that hatch design also happens to mimic the old CRX (which debuted in 1984).

RobCali, you might remember the Hindenberg, but I’m too young to do so. I have read about it though. If you remember the Hindenberg, you might also remember the Apollo 1 tragedy. Do you remember what happened? Oxygen was the culprit. It shouldn’t meant that one must give up breathing.

But, do you think Hindenberg would have been safer if it were filled with gasoline instead? Not quite. Hydrogen is lighter than air, and it will rise quickly even when a fire is introduced, a flame that will go up in the air. Gasoline is not only heavier, it sticks. Imagine firing it up.

GetReal,

Cars like this are designed with a purpose in mind… minimize dependency on oil. Is that a bad thing? They can’t, however, change the ways your neighborhood energy company chooses to deliver electricity or natural gas to you.

And here is how you can manufacture hydrogen. Use electricity to electrolyze water. How do you get electricity? You could use solar energy to do so (Honda is already doing that at its refueling station in SoCal, one of the reasons this car will be offered only in that region). Or, you could use Honda’s Home Energy Station that takes natural gas, and not only does it help extract hydrogen, it also has two additional functionalities built-in: water heater for the house, and electricity generator. In this case, if you run the system using solar power, the only association of petroleum would depend on how your energy company supplies to natural gas. Besides solar, electricity could be generated using hydro and wind power, couldn’t it?

Americanos … YouTube ‘Ron Paul - Stop Dreaming’ … he is your only saviour.

1c3d0g - I hope to GOD you realized that sarcasm.

NASTY rear over-hang! Why do alternative fuel vehicles have to look goofy? Oh right, the “making a statement” argument. And Honda should call it the FCX Calamity base on that huge over-hang.

I really like the way this thing looks. It looks really good moving around in the commercial. I think this is what the Accord should have looked like, kinda fits in with the Civic better.

officially ****ed up. the last concept was way better. this one sure got an eighties vibe, as jordan said.

RobCali: I think YOUR sarcasm meter is broken…thanks for the laugh nevertheless.

the interior is starting to look more production-ready. BLANDASTIC!

Two suggestions Take that front window piece out I HATE that! The new Eclipse has that and it ruins the entire design
Also make a hybrid version of this im sure this can give the Prius a run for its money
Otherwise its a Honda so it will last a long time be reliable as hell unlike american cars

Too civic-esque. But the interior roomis better than that cramped POS civic I had in September.
Yeah, I know, redundancy.
Impulsive: low emissions and attractiveness are not mutually exclusive, but with a design like this, the efficiency is increased.

Fluffer: You know a lot about dog turds

Commodore:He says that stuff out of raw hatred, because a camaro owner took away his one hoot-in-hell chance of getting laid.

51:L You’re right.For now.

Mazda man: “Honda has a good reputation for quality, reliability, and technology, I just wish they could design a vehicle that looks as good as it operates.”

The hondas that are actually of high quality are generally attractive. The cars range from attractive to laughingly hideous.

SS4Life: The only good digital Gauges were in KITT.

tripleonefluffer: (imitating Reagan) Thereyou go again! Honda Civic: dead at 91K. Cavalier: wrecked at 190K FORD TEMPO: sold at 120K+ Olds: 126K+ and counting.
Wake yo’ dumb ass up!

‘jjt’, in this case, they ARE mutually exclusive.

Generally speaking, Hondas are unattractive. Their Battlestar Galactica theme is a joke.

Impulsive: I said the Hondas that are of high quality (the motorcycles) are generally attractive. The cars, which are of middling-at-best quality, are all over the place.

Wake yo’ dumb ass up! and stop lying Every other CIvic in the world goes to at least 200 k you are liar

You are illiterate accord driver.

I know a w0man who drove a civic for 17 years, but I’ve never seen an odometer on one at 200K. Or 100k.