{"id":49787,"date":"2023-05-17T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49787"},"modified":"2023-05-17T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:03:14","slug":"honda-electric-sports-car-could-be-unveiled-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49787","title":{"rendered":"Honda electric sports car could be unveiled this year – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

A report out of the U.K. suggests that Honda<\/a> might unveil an electric sports car<\/a> later this year. A year ago, the company stated that it would build two sports cars<\/a> as part of a bigger push to release 30 EV models by 2030, a $40 billion investment. It was assumed that a sports car would be low on the priority list, but a European company exec now suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n

In speaking with Tom Gardner, Honda’s European VP, Autocar<\/em><\/a> learned that the first of the two Honda electric sports cars could arrive as early as this year. “Watch this space: [2023 is] 75 years \u2014 we had the S2000<\/a> at 50,” Gardner said, referencing how the S2000 was revealed in 1998 in honor of Honda Motor’s 50th anniversary. However, he did hedge with a “Who knows \u2026”<\/p>\n

Honda Motor was founded in 1948 and started out making motorized bicycles and motorcycles<\/a>. The S2000 roadster was a spiritual successor to Honda’s first passenger car, the two-seat, open-top sports car called the S500 that debuted in 1963.<\/p>\n

However, it’s also possible that the sports car may not be an S2000 successor. In the 2030 EV roadmap, CEO Toshihiro Mibe specifically mentioned “specialty” and “flagship” sports cars. In Japan<\/a>, a specialty car typically refers to sporty coupes like the Toyota Celica<\/a>, Mazda<\/a> MX-6 or Honda Prelude<\/a>. However, an earlier report from Japan predicted that the specialty EV would not be ready until 2028<\/a> because Honda wants to put solid-state batteries<\/a> in it and has stated the technology would not be ready until the latter half of the decade.<\/p>\n

As for the flagship, that’s widely assumed to be the next NSX<\/a>. Even before the second-generation supercar<\/a> was sunset, Acura<\/a> head Jon Ikeda was already hinting at an EV successor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We love a sports car. We love performance, and we’re very grateful for the strong reaction we’ve had to the latest Type R. There is huge demand for it,” Gardner told Autocar<\/em>. He also reaffirmed the company’s brand direction. “We will characterize the brand, particularly in Europe, as two words \u2013 we work very closely with R&D to ensure that our products will embody this \u2013 which are ‘advanced’ and ‘sporty’.”<\/span><\/p>\n

If we had to bet, we’d guess that the curtain will be pulled back on Honda’s first EV sports later rather than sooner. A 2028 debut would still coincide with the company’s 80th anniversary. However, even if it’s not a new S2000 or Prelude<\/a>, it seems that something still might be brewing for the 75th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A report out of the U.K. suggests that Honda might unveil an electric sports car later this year. A year ago, the company stated that it would build two sports cars as part of a bigger push to release 30 EV models by 2030, a $40 billion investment. It was assumed that a sports car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}