New Honda prelude at Goodwood

[PranK]

Looks like the brief relationship between Honda and Nissan resulted in Honda stealing the Z profile designs. 

I'm not a fan at all. 👎🏻

 

https://www.autoblog.com/news/seeing-the-new-honda-prelude-up-close-reveals-its-retro-magic

 

[GTSBoy]

Welllll..... some of the Preludes, particularly this one

Sort of kinda mimicked the long-nose-short-deck-Mustang/Skyline profile anyway. That one ^ kinda like R34. The other more curvy Prelude kinda like the R33. Integras had a little of that going on also. So, it's not totally surprising to me that their designers have gravitated to a similar profile to more "modern" (ha! 20 year old!!) Nissan coupes.

Of course, they could have just stolen the V/Z platform anyway, per your suggestion.

I am, otherwise, similarly unimpressed. Those venty things at the bottom of the front guard/door reek of Tiburon, which is not a place any designer would want to be.

[Kinkstaah]

Looks handsome in front and rear.

Side dimensions are awful.

[MBS206]

I see a Toyota 86 that has been molested by an Audi (thinking R8 ish) and a Hyundai.

[Ozdavroz]

Looks like Honda asked AI to draw them a sporty coupe and that's what it came out with.

Amazed the side profile can simultaneously look just like Z but also like shit.

 Glad to see Japanese two door sports cars still  have future though...hanging out for that S16 Silvia which Nissan surely have waiting in the wings

[Rezz]

The Prelude doesn't look that bad without all that lens distortion in those pics. Makes it look disproportionate when it isn't. Actually I kind of liked it at the Osaka Auto Messe earlier this year. 

[GTSBoy]

Well, in the same way that you can't tell any SUV from any manufacturer in any size category from any other one, "sports" coupes now all look identical. Stand back and squint your eyes and the Supra and the 400Z and the GR/BRZ things all look the same.

I was just thinking last night, when sitting behind a Subaru CrossTrek, that I have no idea what it is, how it differs from an XV, or a Forester, or an Outback, or anything else Subaru offer, and I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be small, medium or large. I contrasted that to the good old days, where a HQ Kingswood had familial similarities to an LJ Torana, but there is no way that you could confuse them, and how a bit later, the HX Kinger and the concurrent Torana and the Gemini all had familial similarities, but you still could not confuse them. Ditto the ugly Fords and Chryslers of the era. But now, a RAV4 looks like a Kluger, looks like a Yaris/Cross/whatever they're calling those stupid f**king things, looks like every other Toyota that's not a Camry/Corolla sedan.

[Rezz]

The BMW Supra looks unique IMO. As does the Mazda Roadster/MX5 RF, but agreed for the most part.

What was that design limitation for pedestrian safety in a collision where the bonnet height had to be "x" percentage higher than the top of the wheel arch? I swear there was some guideline that was imposed and the end result was that all cars now had huge wheel arches and droopy bonnets that slope down to the headlights area making them all appear conformist. The Prelude suffers from that too.
The Toyota Crown Sports and Ferrari Pre-Meringue also spring to mind.

[Rezz]

Pop-out door handles can get stuffed by the way