Honda plans hybrid sportscar
Unveiling new car in Geneva next month
Honda hybrid sportscar conceot
Honda UK also announced that it plans to sell some 3,000 hybrid Civics -- more than three times as many this year than last.
Geneva will also see a driveable FCX concept that features a new, compact Honda FC Stack as well as a long-floor, low-riding, short-nose body. The company reckoned it offers "a large, comfortable cabin and futuristic styling along with significant improvements in power output and environmental performance."
The FCX has a range of 354 miles (Honda calculations when driven in LA4 mode) and a top speed limited to 100mph. Limited marketing of a new fuel cell vehicle based on the FCX Concept model is to begin in Japan and the US in 2008.
Honda's also working in making diesels cleaner. Its next-generation diesel engine reduces emissions to the same level of a petrol engine -- Honda claimed a world first for this. The catalytic converter reduces NOx emissions to a level that enables the engine to meet stringent US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tier II/Bin 5 requirements.
It uses the reductive reaction of ammonia to ‘detoxify’ oxides of nitrogen (NOx) by converting them into harmless nitrogen (N2). However, unlike Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) systems which use urea injection, Honda’s innovative technology uses ammonia generated within the catalytic converter. Honda said it plans to introduce its next-generation diesel engine within three years.
Among the other new models on show will be the Civic Type R and the CR-V.
Motorsport
On public display for the first time will be the Honda Racing F1 Team’s brand new race car, and Jenson Button’s new steer for the 2007 season, the RA107. Also at the show is the Civic Type R race car. This motorsport-prepared car is being developed in close cooperation with Italy’s JAS Motorsport, aiming for success on Europe’s race and rally stages. The car is being developed to Group N and Group A spec, as well as the new Group R specifications to be introduced in 2008.
I thought the money subsidies had run out!!! Although I hop am wrong.
Blimey, I'll be getting 2 new cars in two years, the Hybrid Sports Car in 2008 & an FCX in 2009.
And I'm glad a proper sports car version is now on the cards, especially as it's a Honda. If it's anything like an S2000 I'll be down the dealership in no time.
Lets be honest, we all fell for the marketing BS about Super Mini's, 4x4 SUV MPV RRP STD's ETC
so if they market the new breed of 'Low carbon' vehicles with as much hype as the above, within 5 years we will all be driving them, and making our contribution to a better future 
Come on Honda, after all, you are the power of dreams - so turn this dream into reality and build it, market it and then we will buy it...
most concepts do look stunning cos they're made by art students that like cars...then engineers get hold of the design and go 'we can't bend metal that shape' and 'that hole in the front is not big enough to cool the engine' and 'this and that don't meet these regs' etc etc..end of concept back to the real world.
anyway for HONDA fans..I hope you've seen ...
the jet..?
http://world.honda.com/HondaJet/
and their jogging robot..?
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
makes other motor companies look rather lame methinks
most concepts do look stunning cos they're made by art students that like cars...then engineers get hold of the design and go 'we can't bend metal that shape' and 'that hole in the front is not big enough to cool the engine' and 'this and that don't meet these regs' etc etc..end of concept back to the real world.
Good point! So why don't designers work with the engineers first then they could design somewthing that might work off the drawing board?!
most concepts do look stunning cos they're made by art students that like cars...then engineers get hold of the design and go 'we can't bend metal that shape' and 'that hole in the front is not big enough to cool the engine' and 'this and that don't meet these regs' etc etc..end of concept back to the real world.
Good point! So why don't designers work with the engineers first then they could design somewthing that might work off the drawing board?!
Because you end up with something that looks like an Austin 1800!
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