Help - The Prelude's competition?? (when new)

Post by **norks27** » Sun May 14, 2017 10:12 am

Am just musing and thought I'd call upon your collective knowledge.

The pics I put up on DriveTribe appear to get a few views. I'd also written a brief article entitled 'mature beauty' which garnered quite a few views, over 1k.
Unfortunately the article disappeared, seems the Tribe I posted on was deleted.

Thought I might write another article and post it up on 'new era icons' tribe.
I want to be thorough and here's where I could use some of Lude Generations knowledge.

So the question is what where the cars that competed for sales with 4th and 5th gen Prelude's and their respective years/generation.
They must be roughly the same sort of price point and new not 2nd hand.

I think a 2.2Vti was about 25k new?
There's a vague list of cars I can think of, but not sure of the years, e.g. Toyota Celica's, which gens competed with a 4th and 5th gen. Was the VW Corrado in the mix, etc.
You also have hot hatches around the same price point?

There's a lot of knowledge on the forum I'm looking to tap into, to help me flesh out the writing, putting the Prelude into context and demonstrating just how the looks of Ludes have stood the test of time, unlike most of the competition.

It's my little effort to raise the profile of this classic via DriveTribe.

Thanks all.
Rich

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sun May 14, 2017 4:15 pm

I'd imagine a UK buyer in the 90s with no special brand loyalty would also have considered
Nissan 200SX
Toyota Celica
Mazda MX6

I have a feeling that the Corrado, Calibra and possibly the Audi Coupe were cheaper.

I don't see hot hatches and being in the same market, really, having (probably) a different target buyer profile.

Jackson Bondy · Post by **Jackson Bondy** » Sun May 14, 2017 4:48 pm

Old Top Gear did an piece on sports coupes that briefly had the 5G in. These are most of what was around at the time.

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89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun May 14, 2017 7:03 pm

Dunno how the Merc didn't get binned on looks... Always thought the front end of that era e class is only marginally more attractive than a Scorpio!

Post by **norks27** » Sun May 14, 2017 8:32 pm

That's great, thanks all

Post by **norks27** » Sun May 14, 2017 8:39 pm

To my eyes:

The Merc - bit brick like
That gen of Celica - looking dated
The Alfa and Fiat, just don't like the styling, as with the Celica, dated
That Volvo - ho hum
The Datsun - still a handsome car I reckon
The beamer - just generic and anyway M3, so the 328i would always be in the M3s shadow.
Ford Cougar - after the ugly looks of the Probe this was errr just as ugly.

As for the 5th.
I had a recent experience on the A217, coming out of a roundabout, and waiting for a BMW coupe to pass in the outside lane. Seemed to be taking forever, a glance back revealed why....
The driver was gesturing his appreciation of the Prelude to me, then slowly past.
The boy in me then utilised a spot of VTEC and passed the BMW before tucking in. Again he passed and again was in appreciation of the old Honda.
I bang on about the Prelude being a classic, timeless shape and clearly I am borderline insane, but it is so nice to see love for the Lude.
P.S. it wasn't racing with the BMW but mutual admiration, the BMW was admittedly rather smart.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun May 14, 2017 10:50 pm

I love the s14. The facelift is a great looking car and I would love to have one (rare to find one that hasn't been shagged as a drift car these days though

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Post by **norks27** » Sun May 14, 2017 11:30 pm

@wurlycorner - you're very right about the facelift S14

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Mon May 15, 2017 8:57 am

Don't say i don't love you...

Post by **norks27** » Mon May 15, 2017 10:23 am

@shiny - brilliant