In a single day Honda unveiled a lot of the new automobile ideas it can show at subsequent month’s Japan Mobility Present, the successor the long-running Tokyo motor present, however there’s one the automaker is maintaining its sleeve: the Speciality Sports activities Idea.

Presumably it will likely be essentially the most thrilling automobile at Honda’s show on the present, so the automaker is being imprecise about it proper now.

In an announcement in a single day, Honda mentioned the idea would “allow the motive force to expertise the pure pleasure of driving… even within the period of electrification for carbon neutrality and the popularisation of automated driving know-how”.

Someway it can additionally enable drivers to “transcend the constraints of time”.

No-one exterior of Honda is aware of for sure what kind of sporty EV the automaker is planning, however there are two doubtless prospects.

The primary is a revival of the Prelude. The most important clue on this route is a submitting made by Honda with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace in August for using the Prelude nameplate.

Over 5 generations from 1978 to 2001, the Prelude title was employed on a collection of sporty front-wheel drive coupes. All featured zingy four-cylinder engines hooked as much as sweet-shifting guide transmissions, though computerized choices have been additionally obtainable.

If Honda decides to go down the retro styling route for the Specialty Sports activities Idea, it couldn’t do a lot fallacious by copying the fourth-generation (1991 to 1996) automobile featured all through this text.

The opposite apparent choice is a preview of a third-generation NSX.

On the launch of the second-generation NSX’s swan track Kind S variant, Jon Ikeda, head of Acura, mentioned: “The primary-gen was gasoline. Second-gen was a hybrid. There’s gonna be one other one.”

He famous Honda likes to “make an NSX when there’s one thing we wish to say”. Given the corporate is technique of launching new EVs for the US based mostly on GM’s Ultium structure, in addition to its personal devoted EV structure, it’s attainable Honda feels prefer it has one thing to say proper now.

The second-generation NSX was discontinued globally in 2022, and featured a 3.5-litre twin-turbo V6 mounted mid-ship paired to 2 electrical motors on the entrance, one on the rear, and a nine-speed dual-clutch transmission.

Which one do you suppose it will likely be? A brand new Prelude or NSX, or one thing else totally? Tell us within the feedback part beneath.

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