If you were Head of Design on your series Prelude...
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:54 am
Okay, off to la-la land with this one, but I just wondered what design changes, modifications or tweaks you’d have made to your series Prelude, if you were the Design Chief at Honda?
To indulge my fantasies, here’s what I’d have done with my sharpened pencil. I should also add that obviously, I’m no engineer but I’m trying to keep my modifications in period, so no swanky fly by wire crap or any other 2018 tech come to mention it.
A clamshell front end, a la Jaguar E-type. This could have been a signature item for the entire Prelude series.
Stainless steel window surrounds.
Move the electric window switches off the door to a place on the centre console.
A better looking clock.
Twin exhausts, one on the left, one on the right.
A moving gauge that shows you’re approaching and are in VTEC.
Stainless steel kick plates, backlit of course, as a standard fitment.
A ‘fading’ interior light as well as foot well lighting.
A recess on the front bumper to hold a long, horizontal number plate.
A pair of sexy side vents on the front wings with a stainless horizontal bar bisecting the vent, like those on the Aston Martin.
Move the ski hatch to the passenger side.
Retain and upgrade the mechanical 4WS of the 3rd Gen.
Higher quality plastics on the dash and console.
Single wiper blade.
Mesh radiator grille.
Fog/spot lights that echo the oblong shape of the headlights.
To take this a stage further, as it’s the 90’s and the NSX is out there, proving the genius of Honda, I’d task my design team to create a mid-engined Prelude taking the best bits of the NSX, to create a mile eating, but oh so elegant monster, to cement the company’s radical engineering prowess even more. Imagine that? A three litre engine behind the seats, discreetly flared arches with subtle but purposeful scoops, flared arches, wider wheels and tyres of course, and a frontal aspect that’d scare the bejeezus out of anyone unlucky enough to have it in their rear view mirror. Et voila, the Honda PSX limited edition.
Anyway, there’s my little tweaks, I’d love to hear how you guys would wield your pencils on the Prelude drawing boards of yore.
To indulge my fantasies, here’s what I’d have done with my sharpened pencil. I should also add that obviously, I’m no engineer but I’m trying to keep my modifications in period, so no swanky fly by wire crap or any other 2018 tech come to mention it.
A clamshell front end, a la Jaguar E-type. This could have been a signature item for the entire Prelude series.
Stainless steel window surrounds.
Move the electric window switches off the door to a place on the centre console.
A better looking clock.
Twin exhausts, one on the left, one on the right.
A moving gauge that shows you’re approaching and are in VTEC.
Stainless steel kick plates, backlit of course, as a standard fitment.
A ‘fading’ interior light as well as foot well lighting.
A recess on the front bumper to hold a long, horizontal number plate.
A pair of sexy side vents on the front wings with a stainless horizontal bar bisecting the vent, like those on the Aston Martin.
Move the ski hatch to the passenger side.
Retain and upgrade the mechanical 4WS of the 3rd Gen.
Higher quality plastics on the dash and console.
Single wiper blade.
Mesh radiator grille.
Fog/spot lights that echo the oblong shape of the headlights.
To take this a stage further, as it’s the 90’s and the NSX is out there, proving the genius of Honda, I’d task my design team to create a mid-engined Prelude taking the best bits of the NSX, to create a mile eating, but oh so elegant monster, to cement the company’s radical engineering prowess even more. Imagine that? A three litre engine behind the seats, discreetly flared arches with subtle but purposeful scoops, flared arches, wider wheels and tyres of course, and a frontal aspect that’d scare the bejeezus out of anyone unlucky enough to have it in their rear view mirror. Et voila, the Honda PSX limited edition.
Anyway, there’s my little tweaks, I’d love to hear how you guys would wield your pencils on the Prelude drawing boards of yore.
of course, i missed the "your series Prelude" bit at the top, it thought it was about a new 6th series lude....DOH!!