A warmer Honda Prelude Sort R is way from imminent after a spokesperson from the Japanese automaker poured chilly water on the thought when questioned by the media.
The Prelude title will return to Australia in 2026 for the primary time in 25 years with the brand new sixth-generation mannequin, introduced on the Japan Mobility Present in Tokyo final October and scheduled to land mid-year.
The only real Prelude powertrain proven up to now is a barely stronger (147kW/315Nm) model of the two.0-litre hybrid drivetrain with an computerized constantly variable transmission (CVT), as discovered within the Civic and best-selling CR-V SUV.
The brand new Prelude makes use of the identical underpinnings as the most well liked Honda at the moment in showrooms, the Civic Sort R hatch, and even shares the identical suspension parts and high-performance Brembo brakes.
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This has led Honda followers to hitch the dots, pining for warmer variations, with a Sort S and much more excessive Sort R Prelude seemingly easy, inevitable steps.
Additional fuelling hopes, Honda is changing the Civic Sort R with the Prelude in Japan’s GT sports activities automotive collection from 2026, one other signal it would grow to be the model’s fanatics’ flagship.
Hypothesis in Japan has included a hotter Sort S in addition to the most well liked Sort R remedy for the road-going Prelude.
Whereas it has provided a Sort S, Honda has by no means produced a Prelude Sort R throughout the earlier 5 generations of the nameplate, with the Sort R title used on the Civic, AccordIntegra and NSX fashions.
Talking to Creative311as reported on CarScoopsan organization spokesperson stated: “There are not any present plans to promote both a Sort S or Sort R model of the brand new Prelude.”
Whereas the feedback don’t affirm efficiency variations, the phrase “present plans” – rightly seized upon by CarScoops – suggests the door stays open for a punchier Prelude.
Sometimes, high-performance fashions are launched additional down a mannequin life; the present Civic Sort R was introduced in 2022, nearly two years after the common model.
Reviews from Japan advised a Prelude Sort S may use a extra highly effective model of the 132kW/240Nm 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine provided within the previous-generation Civic offered in Australia, which remains to be obtainable abroad within the present Civic.
The Prelude Sort R – once more, the primary ever Prelude Sort R if it occurs – may merely use the Civic Sort R’s 235kW/420Nm 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine and six-speed guide gearbox.
Honda gained’t have the sports activities automotive market to itself, with studies that Toyota is ready to introduce a brand new Celica – a former Prelude rival – in addition to the MR2 sports activities automotive.
It comes as Toyota named its efficiency arm, Gazoo Racing (GR), one among its 5 core international manufacturers alongside Lexus, CenturyDaihatsu (not offered right here) and Toyota itself.
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