This Is Honda's New Project 2&4 Concept Powered By A MotoGP-Sourced V4
 

http://www.carscoops.com/2015/09/thi...2-concept.html

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Gorgeous. Just gorgeous.

This Is Honda's New Project 2&4 Concept Powered By A MotoGP-Sourced V4
 

Looks like Honda pimp up their super lawn mower.... Not joking 😂 Sorry it just reminds me the video below.

Can't wait to see if this come through.
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Is the seat... Completely outside the car?

+1

When I saw the teaser picture a while back... I was stumped and wondering what it would look like... fearing it would be 'weird'... Well it's a sexy thing!

Even though it's more angular, it seems like something that could almost fit in the book Cosmic Motors by Daniel Simon...

http://danielsimon.com/wp-content/up...Gravion_05.jpg

https://area.autodesk.com/th.gen/?z/...38kx:760x0.jpg

FOURTEEN THOUSAND REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE
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Why even bother with a 4 point harness?

This thing should cost roughly the same as a Polaris Slingshot (or less) but likely will be double that. Shame because the amount of fun in this would be off the chain.

What I'd do to push this thing even once.

That seating position will required balls of steel.

And extra steel belting in the tires.
Would hate to get a dope slap from the front wheel tread on it's departure.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks the seat is weird. I honestly think the thing looks good, but I'd rather sit inside a car. The blown tire is a good example of danger. Also, think about if you hit a wall, even just scraping it. There's not metal between you and the wall.

Meanwhile, Nissan building the 370 Z successor, a "lightweight" FWD 2 door crossover.

The engine sounds great but the design is moronic from every possible perspective.

Hope the driver enjoys every piece of debris on the road/track flung up into his face..

The huge balls of the guy driving this would scrape on the ground.

The only thing this car and mine share are the tires. :lol:

Great design though.

Love it. Obviously just a concept and not really practical, but it's the most exciting thing I've seen from Honda in the past decade or so.

I don't understand these sorts of concept cars. They just seem like a design studio is masturbating. Sure, they look good but have no practical application.

That is exactly what they are, just a form of engineering masturbation by guys that have the resources to actually build their binder doodles. Hell, it even says it was from a project challenge not as actual production concepts.
I am always entertained by the guys that fully believe these concepts will ever hit production in any form much less as the one off that they are.

Nice renderings, but it's a lot of fluff. No feasible way to actually make that dashboard, so that's not going to look like that on the real car... that is if it's actually a functioning car and not some rolling sculpture with a painted piece of glass/plastic for a dash.

This reminds me a bit of some of the concept cars that I have seen over the years where the designer leaves no place for a driver (or passenger). In this case it looks like they said, "Oh, $hit!" then "Oh well, lets just stick a seat right here."

PATENT FILING HINTS HONDA MAY BRING PROJECT 2&4 CONCEPT TO LIFE
 

http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sit...ent-Filing.jpg

http://www.motortrend.com/news/paten...-concept-life/

http://www.negative-g.com/six-flags-...-Flight-12.jpg

Looks like fun. Bring it to market for under $25k and I'll bite :cheers:

Tiny 1.0L V4 at 212hp... yawn.

And only 900lbs that 212hp needs to move.

So, there's that.

I get the PWR and wind in your face, I ride motorcycles.

The RC213V is 184K so I wouldn't be surprised if this thing isn't cheap.

So, there's that.

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/90091/...onda-rc213v-s/

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Left lane news might have gotten a spy shot of this mystery project. Looks similar to the patent drawings to me.

http://www.leftlanenews.com/spied-is...nsx-94896.html

http://www.leftlanenews.com/photos/a...picture-5.html

I like those belts! Cool, but like KTM's XBow, it will never see the light of day in America. If you like it buy a Slingshot.

Beautiful though.

yeah it does look similar. but this should really be in the baby NSX / S2k threads.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92276
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106020

http://images.hgmsites.net/med/paten...00514223_m.jpg
http://pictures.dealer.com/p/planeth...4ec641c25x.jpg

You may be right but judging from the license plates in the background of the newest spy shots it is testing in the states. Seems like a lot of effort on Honda's part to have both a coupe and roadster version of a car that isn't going to see the light of day. It's all speculation, but all the other Japanese makes are showing sports car concepts at Tokyo this year and I'm guessing this will be Honda's "surprise".

Spy shots my ass. Whoever took those was allowed too. They walked all the way around the car for crying out loud.
Concept car is concept car.


Oh and autoguide also makes claims on them
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2...onda-zsx-.html

Agreed. Too may details conveniently leaking out about this car all at the same time. First the updated patents and now these photos. Definitely feels like a controlled leak. That's why I put the surprise in quotes because I think it's just a matter of when not if we see this concept at an auto show this year. As far as production possibility who the hell knows...I'd give it 50/50 shot at best.

Love the little Honda! Very cool! It will be track only, IF it makes it to the US. 4 wheels = Car Cars have to pass crash testing. This is why the Polaris slingshot has three wheels. less than 4 wheels = motorcycle with no crash testing.

Correct me if I am wrong. Cause, I would love to drive something like this on public roads!!!

Looks like an NSX built for SEMA, just like the targa FRS.

Yea I miss all those exciting blurry live spy shots from the old Temple of Vtec days lol!

more patent photos

http://icdn-5.motor1.com/images/mgl/...ent-photos.jpg
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If this sees the light of day in the US for street use I'll gladly make you a bet that I will buy you one, what are you putting up? The KTM XBow was 60 million US to develop. It will never be sold in the US officially. There are a few here through the grey market for track day cars, but that is it. Honda likes the profit of stamping out Civics with nice profit margins, people should be thankful they make a hotrod version of that from time to time, but they are not overly interested in flexing their engineering muscles. From time to time they show off what they can do, but they mostly play it safe when it comes to product development. They made their first side by side and personal watercraft 10 years after the competition and they made the Fury 10 years after they should have. They can go wild, like the NR or the RC213 V-S, but they normally play it safe.

This vehicle is really cool, but it is so far away from what DOT regulations would allow, ridiculously far away.

Besides, Honda did not do this, a design firm did it. They might have been hired by Honda or went rouge and just used Honda as a platform. Somewhere else on this forum I mentioned that the best designs come from small teams or individuals, not a collective corporate group.

The difference between this and the street going Slingshot does not look that dramatic, but one only has to look at the product development of Polaris Industries compared to Honda to see the risks each company are willing to take. Look at each companies side by side offering. Polaris is still fighting at the state level in certain areas to get the Slingshot officially approved as a street vehicle (and what it is specifically) Honda wants ZERO part of that stuff. For every Slingshot that is sold Honda probably sells 10,000 Civics.

This little Honda is a cool auto show attention getter, it ends there.

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How much torque? A motorcycle is half that weight. There is a reason, besides reliability, that motorcycle engines arent in cars--high reving hp is great but not if there isn't enough torque to reach those rpm's fast enough.