Honda Super-one Prototype Is A Pint-sized Electric Hot Hatch That Will Actually Go Into Production

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If you're an online car circlejerker, past you astir apt love mini cars. If you're an highly online car circlejerker, you emotion tiny, sporty cars. If that sounds for illustration you, I've sewage immoderate really bully news to share... benignant of. Honda conscionable pulled nan screen disconnected its adorable yet mean-looking Super-One Prototype compact electrical conveyance astatine nan Japan Mobility Show, and moreover though Honda says it's going into production, there's a beautiful overmuch zero chance it ever makes it to our shores. Still, it's nosy to look, no, and hell, possibly you unrecorded location wherever it will beryllium sold.

Teased successful camouflaged shape astatine nan Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this year, the Super-One is built connected nan electrical Honda N Series platform, and its ngo connection is to toggle shape mundane driving into an breathtaking experience, not uncommon to nan basking hatchbacks that came earlier it. This 1 is conscionable tinier and electrified. The Super-One is each astir nan "joy of driving," according to Honda, and if there's 1 point Honda does exceedingly well, it's make small cars that are incredibly rewarding to drive.

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On nan outside, fender flares let for a widened way and fatter rubber for accrued cornering stableness (or truthful I'm told, I evidently haven't driven this thing). Honda engineers besides added aerodynamic touches for illustration beforehand and rear aerial ducts to thief pinch aerial travel and let for much businesslike cooling. The car besides gets a full bunch of blacked-out trim pieces, unsocial four-spoke wheels, and a slew of different exterior changes that thief group it isolated from a regular-degular N-One. There's thing astir nan Super-One that looks terribly concept-ish. If you told maine this was a full-on accumulation car, I'd judge you, and that's because successful emblematic Honda "prototype" fashion, it's astir apt highly adjacent to nan 1 that'll really deed nan streets soon.

You tin remainder assured Honda didn't conscionable slap a assemblage kid connected its small electrical hatachback and telephone it a day. The large news present is simply a usability Honda calls "Boost Mode," which it designed specifically for nan Super-One Protoype. It'll summation nan car's powerfulness output (though Honda doesn't really opportunity really overmuch powerfulness it creates) while syncing up its simulated 7-speed transmission and Active Sound Control strategy to springiness you nan emotion you're really shifting gears successful a gas-powered vehicle. It's a instrumentality that's becoming much and much common. We've already seen it connected EVs for illustration nan Hyundai Ioniq 5 N and Lexus RZ 550e F-Sport, arsenic good arsenic Honda's caller hybrid Prelude. The full package is meant to uplift nan driver, according to Honda. The car is really functional, too. Honda opportunity it has tested nan prototype each complete Japan, nan United Kingdom and different countries crossed Asia to get it dialed successful conscionable right.

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Honda besides decided to get imaginative pinch nan Super-One Prototype's interior, giving it immoderate heavy bolstered beforehand seats pinch a scatter of bluish to break up nan different grey surfaces. Their style benignant of gives a 1980s retro throwback artistic to nan Recaros you'd spot successful that period. I surely excavation them.

The remainder of nan mini interior doesn't spot excessively overmuch of a alteration compared to a modular N-One; possibly nan existent car will spot immoderate much sizable differences, but for now, nan Super-One's layout and dashboard are emblematic Honda fare. There's really thing incorrect pinch that. Honda knows really to make a great, uncomplicated interior. It fits successful good pinch nan no-nonsense cognition this small feline is giving.

As I mentioned earlier, Honda really does scheme to put this car into production. In Japan and nan remainder of Asia, it's going to beryllium called nan Super-One, but successful nan UK, it'll beryllium called nan Super-N. No matter what it's called, though, Honda says accumulation is scheduled to commencement sometime successful 2026, though we don't cognize precisely erstwhile aliases really overmuch it'll cost. In immoderate case, it really looks to beryllium a fabulous small electrical basking hatch successful a world that seems to beryllium moving distant from each things mini and electric. Hopefully, much things for illustration this drawback on, and — for nan emotion of God — travel to nan U.S. truthful our circlejerk tin continue.