Honda Reveals First Substantive Look at Forthcoming Prologue EV
Honda’s long history of eschewing mass-market electric vehicles for hybrids will change with the arrival of the Prologue, an all-electric SUV previously announced in June 2021, developed in conjunction with GM and set to launch in 2024. Up to now, we haven’t had much of an idea of how it’ll look beyond a concept sketch, but Honda’s latest Prologue teaser is a revealing video taking us inside the California design studio that helped craft its appearance.
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The video features members of Honda’s youthful Torrance design team discussing how they arrived at the look of the final product, a process aided by “virtual reality realization” (which allowed for remote collaboration and evidently involves headsets). But the most intriguing bits lie among the high-minded philosophical musings on “neo-rugged design,” studied stares of sketches and carefully timed laughter among co-workers: Our first clear view of the Prologue reveals a compact SUV whose aggressive drawing presaging this video has been refined as it approaches production form.
Its stance appears to have been narrowed and squared off for a more upright look akin to the recent CR-V redesign. The front draws from the lauded e Prototype concept that debuted at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show. The slant of the beltline, its side windows aft of the B-pillar and its cladding around the wheel wells and along the rocker panels, meanwhile, recall the Mazda CX-50.
Prologue exterior design chief Jiro Ikeda says you can expect more of the SUV’s look across the Honda brand as it “signals the road ahead” visually; that will likely include the 30 new EVs the automaker expects to introduce globally by 2030. For a better look at the Prologue as it might appear on lots and in your driveway come 2024 in the meantime, check out the video below.
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