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Anonymous01/28/26, 01:54No.28823347
It flopped.
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Anon01/28/26, 01:56No.28823348
It's too expensive
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Anon01/28/26, 01:58No.28823349
For approximately 100 a month more, you could buy a base giulia
For approximately 100 a month less, you could buy a base 2 series
Both will be faster and more comfortable, both have superior brand cachet, at least one has more cargo capacity, and both will have fewer recalls and warranty visits
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Anon01/28/26, 02:03No.28823352
prelude more like pretend it does not exist lol
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Anon01/28/26, 02:03No.28823353
It's kinda based if it were cheaper, if Honda made the Civic sport 2.0L NA motor with dual axis type r struts, my dick would be hard and I'd have to go get car payment.
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Anon01/28/26, 02:07No.28823355
I like it, but I wouldn't buy one. What I would totally buy is a lifted AWD Trailsport Civic wagon
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Anon01/28/26, 02:09No.28823357
>same 0-60 time as my 25 year old econobox
Gee I wonder why lol. Also what the fuck is the point of an engine you can't rev in neutral or park?
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Anon01/28/26, 02:12No.28823360
Honda is just using the Prelude as a test subject to see if they can make hybrid cars fun. Whatever they learn will be applied to other cars
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Anon01/28/26, 02:52No.28823382
I kind of like the idea of a practical coupe returning to the masses.
Young people don't need four doors, a 2 door coupe looks cooler
The thing is, you need to make the coupe CHEAPER than the 4 door sedan for fucks sake. Just get rid of the "sportiness" (not that the prelude is sporty at all) and go all in on just making a civic hybrid coupe that looks cool, for like $30k max.
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Anon01/28/26, 02:55No.28823387
$42000 for a 2 door hatchback with the engine, transmission, and interior of the $34000 civic sport touring hybrid hatchback; and the suspension and brakes of a $46000 civic type r.
If you like the inside you can get the same thing for $8000 less.
If you like the handling and braking you can get a hundred more horsepower and a 6spd for $4000 more.
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Anon01/28/26, 02:59No.28823391
I'm not sure who this is for. It's too expensive and slower than a brz/frs. If they had put the type-R drivetrain in it with an optional stick it would have sold like hotcakes.
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Anon01/28/26, 03:29No.28823413
>prius coupe at home
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Anon01/28/26, 03:41No.28823420
I'm gonna buy one next month.
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Anon01/28/26, 03:42No.28823421
At least toyota is re-using the front end of these things for a sports car
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Anon01/28/26, 04:01No.28823444
YOU NOW OWN HONDA MOTORS
you can make whatever cars you want
you are in charge of making a NEW prelude
it will have a new interior, a new platform, a new engine, whichever features you want it to
what would your IDEAL prelude look and drive like?
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Anon01/28/26, 08:50No.28823612
>another daily prelude postChevy puts out a volt coupe for $76k and no one bats an eye. Honda puts out a civic hybrid coupe for $43k and everyone loses their fucking minds.So what's the obession with the Prelude? They only producing what, like ~1500 of these for the US? Good chance the average person will never ever see one of these in their lives. Why are there more threads about this car than the amount of units they will ever ever exist?
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Anon01/28/26, 13:35No.28823742
this is better in every way
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Anon01/28/26, 13:43No.28823748
The price is the only issue, as this is a base model. IF HMA wanted to, there could be a SiR or the likes
'97 MSRP: 23,595 USD
If you were to have bought either the 'lude in '97 or equivalent value of Ag, the silver would be sitting around half a million.
Truth is the price only sucks because the dollar does. That aside, as mentioned above somewhere, a 2.0T non-k20c1 (like the c3 or c4) would be welcomed with open arms, and maybe even at the current msrp. Likely paired with an 8 speed dct. I do believe the intent of this vehicle is not a flop, it is spot on for the target audience. In typical HMA fashion, we're not the target audience
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Anon01/28/26, 13:58No.28823760
too expensive, no niche
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Anon01/28/26, 14:54No.28823819
>people keep shouting for cool cars
>after years brands sort of release something KINDA catering to that demand
>put retarded price tag on it and some other aspects that they _know_ would keep buyers away>pull pikachu face once no one fucking buysWHY
IS
IT
ALWAYS
LIKE
THAT
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Anon01/28/26, 15:01No.28823830
It flopped because these are $50k+ and closer to $60k at most dealerships.For a car that is functionally the same as the Civic Hybrid. Like literally the same drivetrain.WHAT. THE. FUCK.The Japanese have a serious and extreme issue when it comes to traditionalism, they're SO SCARED to make any real change, to ever take a chance , so they recook and release the same boring bullshit year after year after year. I dont know what their obsession is with staying at 200 HP but the car could have genuinely been "Good enough" if they actually made it RWD and 300+ HP.
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Anon01/28/26, 15:13No.28823849
>slower than the civic
>worse mpg than the civic hyrbid
>smaller than the civic aka not practical
>handles the same as the civic
>no manual option, unlike the civic
>15-20k more than the civic
Why would anybody buy this?
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Anon01/28/26, 15:18No.28823858
>$50k
>a hybrid
>literally same HP as the last modelWhy wouldnt I just buy a well maintained last gen and save like $40k
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Anon01/28/26, 15:51No.28823911
>went back to shift buttons
I thought Honda was over this stupid trend. Why'd they bring them back?
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Anon01/28/26, 15:54No.28823915
The car is itself is far too expensive to justify it's confused existence. It's trying hard to target the accord coupe audience while being a to be the civic coupe and priced as a type R. It's Honda desperatly throwing shit at the wall because the loss of the civic coupe completly lost them an entire market segment they dominated before
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Anon01/28/26, 16:13No.28823934
Honda made the same mistake they made with the Integra, NSX, and CR-Z. they did the opposite of the 86/brz and tried to make what the actual car was instead of what car buyers remember it as. The 86/brz was made to be the all day sports car that could go from the track and the grocery store, when the original AE86 was just a grocery getter that happened to have good weight-distribution. Image if we went back and time and Toyota hyped up the successor of the AE86, only to then reveal the corolla hatchback.
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Anon01/28/26, 16:33No.28823961
all they had to do is put the electric motor on the rear axle
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Anon01/28/26, 17:34No.28824057
It flopped because it's another name resurrected from Millennial childhood culture and slapped on a shitbox EV nannymobile, compliance car or crossover SUV and Honda was hoping to capitalize on that sweet Millennial nostalgia now that we're all old and depressed and longing for the only period of our lives where we had any stability or happiness.MegaCorp America is riding a wave of selling us our childhoods back to us at a huge markup and it sucks.
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Anon01/28/26, 17:53No.28824085
>It flopped.
I love it
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Anon01/28/26, 19:45No.28824196
Honda is actually retarded if they thought that anyone would willingly buy an hybrid auto only front wheel drive coupe solely because it has the same name as an older car
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Anon01/28/26, 20:06No.28824221
Feels like 85% of Americans wouldn't even fit in one
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Anon01/28/26, 22:35No.28824372
It's a personal luxury coupe, style over function. Don't compare it to sports cars, compare it to the chrysler cordoba from 1975
>2 door
>looks cool
>handles aight
>medium price
>shit back seat
>big trunk
>automatic tranny
Still, it loses on all accounts, except in the domains of fuel efficiency and (immediate) reliability. The 51 year old car is more comfortable, cheaper, has a sunroof/t-top option, and has POWER SEATS. I'll take the rusty old car instead thank you very much.
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Anon01/28/26, 23:06No.28824402
Color me shocked.