teeny little thing. They should build it.

Thank you guys for letting us know its length in Millimeters. :/ I’ll be right back, let me go get my yard stick.

umm, why are the front and back so flat!!?? otherwise yay for more blobby hybrids

I mean, was the car to small to be measured in Centimeters or Inches? heh

hate the front and rear but is overall a nice profile.

This is pretty cool!

I hate the way it looks, its too modern for me. Just doesn’t have any style IMO.

Why even mention that the concept has 20 inch rims or the type of tires? Its like saying, “hey! Here are the specs for something that the real thing won’t have!”

More 3rd grade trekkie **** from the company that builds the abortion that is the civic sedan.

thats not a goodlooking car honda can do better

Where are the headlights? Are those the long white strips just above the grill? The schnoz on this thing looks like a stubby chubby. Also, the wheels are too blingy. I’d rather have the “pizza pie plates” Honda puts on its current hybrids.

Overall, I’d rather have that FCX in the background (see pic#4)

how do you spell ugly in japanese

Why are the rims measured in inches, don’t they know the world uses metric? Looks like a cute little concept that won’t look a thing like the production version if there is one.

lol another homo concept from homoco.

I dont know what honda is doing lately. I dont like ANY of their “futuristic” concepts. They all look bloated and old. I did like the accord coupe concept tho. But these rounded themed ones are wack.

Length 4000mm is 13.12ft.
Heigt 1270mm is 4.17ft.
Width 1760mm is 5.78ft.

Not sure how this escapee from autopia would do here. Honda has never really captured the essence of classic design but I give’em a little kudos for the effort.

looks creepy without headlights

Tyres? Petrol?

if I can’t drive it like a race car then I don’t want to drag my ass around on the pavement. When it takes me more time to get to my destination then please- no slipcovers on the floor.

What a beauty! I want one.

It’s about as big as a Prelude, give or take a few inches.

I think everything looks fine until you get to that head on shot. Then it’s barftastic!

Cobradreamer427 — “If that piece of **** replaces the S2000 I will hate Honda.”

What if has like a 300 hp sceamer 4 cylinder, and handles and brakes better than the S2000?

I had a feeling this could be it. They’re saying FWD sports hybrid, but me thinks otherwise.

Um… not a good looking car. I believe the Jetsons drove one in metallic?

Andre Neves, as an engineer in training, ive got a teacher that says centimiters are for carpinters and milimiters are for engineers.

davebo, wheels and tires are measured in inches cause that was the first system implemented to make tire sizes standard. its a lot easier to say i have 20 inch rims than 51.2cm rims. Michelin did launch metric tires in the 70s the were called TRX. they were fited to lots of preformance cars but they died out.

Yes but it’s never too late to convert to what most of the world is used to. Wouldn’t rappers sound so much more impressive if they all sang about how they’re rollin’ on sixties instead of puny little twenty-fours. (They wouldn’t even realize 60cm

got cropped… wouldn’t realize 60cm is less than 24in.

It looks like my girlfriends period stain.

can you say UGLY!!!!!? wow what happened to those times when honda used to build good looking cars like the s2000 and the NSX??? those times seem way too far away specially since they made that other advanced sports car concept which looks flatter than Paris Hilton. VERY BAD HONDA

Interesting that after some really hideously angular Acura concepts, this seems to hark back to the beautiful HSC concept.. maybe that’s good news for the NSX replacement?

Renton,

The S2000 is getting turned over for a new model. A new S2000. Unfortunately I don’t think Honda is going to give it much fanfare, but it’ll be a better car. Much like moving on from the C4 to the C5 then the C6 Corvettes. They took it as far as they could and have to make a new machine altogether to go further. I know I saw pictures of it at the Tokyo auto show a year or two ago. It looks a bit larger and I think there was mention of a more powerful engine.

I know nothing substantial. I’m looking in on it. I had written the car off until you started preaching about it. Seriously though, aside form the ho-hum styling, it really seems to be a really interesting car.

Anyway, Honda should maybe stick with their usually curiously bland, yet understated-ly sporty styling. This hybrid concept looks like Honda was trying to copy Mazda’s Ryuga concept but in a strangely unsuccessful minialist style.

who the hell started comparing this to the S2000?? If anything its a modern take on the CRX. Look at the way the glass is on the Hatch above the lights.

What is the point of making a concept like this? It would never meet code as a production model. All Honda is doing with this is showing us what we WON’T be getting, just like those idiotic Mazda concepts.

Blakkarr,

The S2000 replacement I read about was moving to a hardtop coupe and a 2+2 format. That concept is quite racy, it could work

BTW, you’re right about the interesting part of the S2K, Honda put a lot into that machine. They did not make money on it, but it will be a legend.

You have to drive one balls out..

165/60/R20

Holy crap, anyone imagine how expensive those would be to replace, seeing how much of a niche car this would be?

U G L Y

looks like a futuristic crx. Maybe its a hint of what there going for on the crx thats rumored to come out.

Very nice exterior design! It reminds me of the 1993 Mazda RX-7. One problem though: it has NO REAR WHEEL DRIVE! I am so sick Honda coming out with nice designs and ideas labeled with the word “sports” that are still based around a FWD architecture.

Unless it’s a 2200lb CRX with a 200 horsepower IMA engine, It doesn’t matter how good it looks. I don’t want to “tune” or “mod” Hondas for more power so I want the power factory equipped and unless it’s a featherweight two-seater I don’t tolerate front wheel drive. Move on, Honda. Do your cool looking design some justice with both a hybrid drivetrain AND rear wheel drive.

That’s as ugly as the toyota FT-HS. What’s with the japanese and coming up with such ugly concepts…or just ugly cars in general. They should keep their hideous, low-quality, vanilla cars out of the U.S.A.

HA

V-series,
I think that the Japanese build better, more desirable cars than the Americans. At motoir shows, the Japanese come up with great, exciting looking cars equipped with the minute’s latest technology. On the other hand, GM and Ford will boast about their latest pick-up truck, a simple car still being used all the time by people in large parts of America. No wonder Ford is about to go bankrupt; all they seem to make are pick-ups, along with a few true gems, namely cars, not trucks. Cadillac will show us a huge, blinged-up 4×4 for the world’s rappers to enjoy. Japanese cars may not be the maddest, or the most appealing, but are definitely the most sophisticated.

This concept looks great, apart from the name, which is just too unimaginative and boring. It would be great if the next-generation NSX looked like this.

damn austin you realy hate america dont you. japan killed the british auto industry where wereyou then? now they are killing the u.s. industry, next goes the rest of the european industry.

that thng looks sick, the tires look cool as hell even though i dont see how those could end up on a production model, cause yea they look pretty expensive lol

CTS DRIVER,

I do not hate America. I simply think they have gone out of their Golden Age of car manufacturing, the time when the GT40 was winning Le Mans, Detroit was bringing out fantastic musclecars like the Challenger, the Mustang and the Camaro. I wish they could somehow rekindle that magic. Ford is making some great cars, but they are on the edge of bankruptcy. Good luck America, more of the old stuff please.

I think this looks really cool, especially the front end. By using such a thin strip of LED’s as the headlamps, it makes it look as if there are folding headlights such as in the early 1980’s Pontiac Firebird/Transam, but really that’s just an illusion as the lighting is done with that tiny strip of LED’s! Brilliant!

Aston Martin: I agree with you 100% on your synopsis of the quality of Japanese vs. American autos. You’re right on the money. CTS DRIVER don’t jump to conclusions about what Aston is sayin, he’s being realistic, something many people can’t seem to do these days.

thanks LamborghiniZ.

Honda’s level of design of late is absolutely scary…they manage to include the odd interesting element here or there but overall is seems like everything they’re put out since the HSC looks like one of those hyper-aerodynamic amorphous early 90s “blobs”. Boner rating so far this year zero.

Worse, they seem to be gearing up to go further and further down the techno-gadget path, which is the one thing that’s always absent from their best cars in the real world!

Honda, please just bring back elegant engineering, advanced materials, sorted suspension and great engines and stick to it!

The front end looks like it has buck teeth sticking out over it’s bottom lip. It’s a design that is different for the sake of being different. Don’t see the point.

If the Japanese are looking for some sort of design language, retro is in. And I would be looking back to that beautiful Toyota 2000GT or a Datsun Z.

Return the second gen CRX.Call it a retro or whatever,like Chrysler is doing with their cars.Like GM is doing with the Camaro.The CRX that gets rubber in all 5 gears.

Yup,pull that out of the bag.The original Z.Slightly refined,but with the same idea as Toyota’s Landcruiser.The same general look.