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Well that’s my only seedling interest in electric cars killed off 
Loved the Honda prototypes, what a glorious couple of designs, but they’ve predictably turned it into a a kitchen appliance looking thing.
Dashboard looks a distracting mess in the production version. I kind of hope the trend for touch screens and too many buttons would start to fade back to basics.
https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-offic...
Loved the Honda prototypes, what a glorious couple of designs, but they’ve predictably turned it into a a kitchen appliance looking thing.
Dashboard looks a distracting mess in the production version. I kind of hope the trend for touch screens and too many buttons would start to fade back to basics.
https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-offic...
Oh I don’t know. It’s not as cool looking as the concepts, but I think it’s still got its own, unique, look. I think it looks great. My only concern will be the price. It’s bound to be more expensive than it should be, for a city car, and that will mean few people will buy one. They’re guessing 30-35k for a 125miles range (they say excess of but I’m better 125 is likely the realistic minimum). It’s not that much more of a stretch to reach for a Model 3 is it?
VWs lowest ID.3 will still do 200 miles and is golf sized and should be 30k or less.
I think Honda are going to have the same problems selling this here as they do with their current cars. Too expensive, poor finance options and better options and value to be had elsewhere. At least this one looks cute and that might appeal more than their current line up of gundam wing extras.
VWs lowest ID.3 will still do 200 miles and is golf sized and should be 30k or less.
I think Honda are going to have the same problems selling this here as they do with their current cars. Too expensive, poor finance options and better options and value to be had elsewhere. At least this one looks cute and that might appeal more than their current line up of gundam wing extras.
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Sunday 12th May 09:40
Reminds me of an Audi A1.
While the concept was cute, adding 2 more doors has pretty much ruined it - it's like making the Fiat 500 a 4 door and still expecting it to be cute.
Thinking about it, all cute cars tend to have 2 doors. The 205 lost it, in 4 door form.
As for price, well good luck with that. The concept might get away with it but I can't see the same allure for this.
While the concept was cute, adding 2 more doors has pretty much ruined it - it's like making the Fiat 500 a 4 door and still expecting it to be cute.
Thinking about it, all cute cars tend to have 2 doors. The 205 lost it, in 4 door form.
As for price, well good luck with that. The concept might get away with it but I can't see the same allure for this.
The video walk-arounds people did at the 'launch' of the pre-production model were great. Amazing looking car but it really is a luxury given the range and price. Yes, there's demand for city cars but it looks like a pretty good car to blast down the motorway in too, or through the hills in wales, so a shame it's so restricted in range format.
It's nice that EV is pushing manufacturers to take more than a single leap in design than the usual iterations though.
It's nice that EV is pushing manufacturers to take more than a single leap in design than the usual iterations though.
untruth said:
The video walk-arounds people did at the 'launch' of the pre-production model were great. Amazing looking car but it really is a luxury given the range and price. Yes, there's demand for city cars but it looks like a pretty good car to blast down the motorway in too, or through the hills in wales, so a shame it's so restricted in range format.
It's nice that EV is pushing manufacturers to take more than a single leap in design than the usual iterations though.
I doubt there’ll be much ‘blasting’ down motorways or through the Welsh hills with an estimated 105bhp or so max, in a 1.5t car, to be fair. It's nice that EV is pushing manufacturers to take more than a single leap in design than the usual iterations though.
It looks like a decent city commuter, but a bit pricy, as usual.
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