Comments on: What’s Wrong With This Picture: Cars Of Future Past Edition

By: shiney2

shiney2 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:02:41 +0000

The wheels are ugly and retro to a totally different time and style than the rest of the car. Other than that, its just about perfect, and Honda should be tooling up both gas and electric versions of it now.

By: NickR

NickR — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:28:10 +0000

Give it a 900 cc gas engine, 3 colour choices, and make it price-competitive with the Hyundai Accent. Call it the “CVCC”.

Don1967, ‘word’ to use the vernacular. Except for the colour part. Given the demographic that I think would buy this, it needs a fairly broad colourful palette. A few mundane colours and a batch of bright, crayon colours.

By: nichjs

nichjs — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:45:17 +0000

Alec Issigonis would love it. If it had a British marque on it :’-(

“Honda iClubman”

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:34:18 +0000

A college roommate of mine had one of these older Hondas. It was decent in snow, but not something I’d want to drive on the interstate for that kind of commuting.

By: don1967

don1967 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:29:43 +0000

I like everything about this except the electric part.

Give it a 900 cc gas engine, 3 colour choices, and make it price-competitive with the Hyundai Accent. Call it the “CVCC”. This is what the Fit should have been.

By: autonut

autonut — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:28:01 +0000

It would work as a commuter car in lower 30 states, where there is no freezing temps. I can see it on every college campus, not so much on NASCAR circuit.

By: dmrdano

dmrdano — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:19:45 +0000

I like it. It would meet the real needs of many for a commuter/grocery car (you could almost drive it down the produce aisle). In my area a pure electric will run into problems because we need heat in our cars eight months a year, and resistance heating eats up batteries faster than gluttons at a buffet.

By: shaker

shaker — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:26:50 +0000

The “Wall-e” interpretation of the 600 – meh -

The lack of aero (it actually looks like it’s leaning into the wind) means it’s probably an NEV – I don’t see the golf-cart set buying something this “cute”.

By: holydonut

holydonut — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:29:41 +0000

I bet you could still rice that thing out with a fat muffler.

/amplifying that electric hum

By: Blue387

Blue387 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:59:11 +0000

I think it needs a hug.

By: Garak

Garak — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:12:44 +0000

Does the world really need another tiny, powerless, electronic shit box?

Yes. It needs a good tiny, powerless electronic shitbox.

By: BuzzDog

BuzzDog — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:56:52 +0000

Well, it certainly reminds me of the days when Honda’s tagline was, “We make it simple.”

By: Detroit Todd

Detroit Todd — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:59:47 +0000

Does the world really need another tiny, powerless, electronic shit box?

Honda has already answered that question (twice, really).

By: CyCarConsulting

CyCarConsulting — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:32:57 +0000

Niedermeyer, if you had anything to do with the design of this car, you could single handily save GM now. Please submit your app without delay.

By: jacksonbart

jacksonbart — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:07:38 +0000

Winnie the Pooh cant get Eeyore to fit in the back seat.

By: sabast20

sabast20 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:09:30 +0000

I didn’t know they still made 10″ dia. tires?

By: SherbornSean

SherbornSean — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:59:42 +0000

Yes, Via Nocturna, 2000GT. brilliant. drool.

Maybe they could use the new platform the AE86 is being built on. Take the 2.5 liter 6, stick a turbo on it…

By: Via Nocturna

Via Nocturna — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:05:23 +0000

Actually…I like it. Improbably so, but I actually like it. I can see something like this becoming a huge hit as an EV at a mid-teens price point.

Now if only Toyota could get with the correct (read: not the FJ Cruiser) retro program as well and give us a modern interpretation of the 2000GT.

By: Paul Niedermeyer

Paul Niedermeyer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:53:55 +0000

Funny; I actually meant to call the imaginary little electric car in the opening of that CC a “Honda i-600″. For some goofy reason, I called it a “Brazaville i-600″, which no one picked up on.

By: jaje

jaje — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:31:11 +0000

It would be a niche city car but way cooler than a Smart could ever be. I’d wish Honda would actually step out on a limb and actually style their working prototypes with this kind of eye for style. As soon as the US based designers take over it becomes a huge ugly mess (think recent designs such as TSX, TL, Crosstour, etc.)

By: Cheevie

Cheevie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:11:31 +0000

Carlos Ghosn is not sitting in it.

By: NickR

NickR — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:12:09 +0000

I don’t know about other cities, but knowing Toronto as well as I do…if Honda marketed a car like this, even with a small 2,3, or 4 cylinder engine they’d sell like gangbusters.

By: MMH

MMH — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:33:06 +0000

Hey, why not? Ford (Mustang), ChryCo (Challenger), and GM (Camaro) are all attempting – with varying degrees of success – to capitalize on retro styling that evokes past success. Yes, those are all horrible examples to follow, but the logic still works. Right?