I'm old lol, I had an 87 prelude, she was quick and handled well. Before that a Conquest and a Daytona turbo. The Prelude was more fun. If it were not for my trash knee I'd get one.
I'm old too. A lot of people seem to be hoping this car will be something it probably won't. Prelude began as a sporty coupe- basically a 70's "personal luxury coupe" but sportier, more efficient and for a different era. It was initially a Civic/Accord mashup. They weren't fast, but they were smartly engineered and well built. The 2nd and 3rd generations were big sellers. Most were probably automatics. Somewhere along the way the "yo-Vtech/JDM" crowd adopted them as if they were some super car, which they never were. They got expensive, complicated and sales plummeted. Once upon a time you could have gone to a Honda dealer and had the choice of 2 coupes (P, C, A) and 2 2-door HB's (C,A). Now how many 2-doors? Zilch. I'm old, yet know many young single childless people who buy 7 seat mommie wagons. I think it's lucky Honda is bothering to make this car at all, and to make it, it undoubtedly will have to borrow heavily from existing vehicles to be financially feasible. They have to make cars that actually sell, not cars that people fantasize about but can't afford to buy.
