Hi all, glad to have stumbled upon this fine fresh board. Collected my 2026 Prelude in Crystal Black yesterday. It is one of the very first Preludes to run here in Germany and one of only 500 that are planned to be imported from Japan...
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We took the Prelude to Complete Automotive Repair and Service in York, PA for a mid-interval oil change today. They do work on all of my cars and I recommend them very highly...
My wife's 57 mile drive today. A good mix of winding minor roads, dual carriageway (freeway), and also some congestion and heavy traffic. The car seemed to do even better on...
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It looks really beautiful in black, but it's hard to keep clean. :ROFLMAO: Same with white. Beauty is pain. 🤷🏼
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I will be using the CTEK battery conditioner. Trading in a Toyota hybrid which has used this for 3 years and stopped any problem with the 12v battery. My GR Yaris lives on the CTEK and the 5 year...
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Most phone have a slot for a microSD card alongside the SIM card. Also, don't forget that there's a hack that allows Android Auto to run wirelessly in your Prelude . Like you, I have an Android...
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This might not apply as you said you are running Google Maps on your phone, instead of on the built-in system... but I use Apple CarPlay and the very first thing I did to my Prelude was to...
Just drove home my Boost Blue Prelude over 200 miles from the dealership, and loved every mile of it!!! I recently sold my 2007 Corvette after a long relationship with her...it was tough breaking up, but not as tough as it was getting...
It sure is. All depends on how you drive it
mpg is affected by so many factors: ambient temperature, terrain, speed, vehicle load, tyre pressures, driving style, fuel quality, elevation, etc. Coasting ('pulse-and-glide') is generally...
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Welcome to the site! Great looking car and thank you for the great introduction post! Glad to have you on the site!
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2026 Honda Prelude Talk 💬
I did a run from York, PA to Virginia Beach and back this weekend (Interstates all the way). I was able to surf the traffic on the "95's" with no problem at all. The Prelude wasn't as quick or as snappy as my BRZ but it was still very...
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As our community continues to grow and more 2026+ Honda Preludes hit the road, we’ve added several new forum sections to help keep discussions organized and make it easier to...
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If it helps the Prelude is far more fun and feels more thrilling during acceleration than the T8 455hp Volvo I used to have ever did, and I clocked that at 4.0s to 60mph...
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Seems many people ding the Prelude for missing a sunroof, power seats and a usable back seat. Those three omissions are all huge positives for me. Sunroof/Moonroof: From the outside the...
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After taking a quick trip to the “mountains” (big hills?) of TN, I have more appreciation for this car being a hybrid without a MT. Instead of my driving focus having to primarily be on...
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... new car engines have shown wear metals (most notably iron, copper, aluminium and also silicone residue) typically around 100+ppm, falling rapidly to about 20ppm after an early change or two...
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With my Prelude past 600 miles and the oil changed, I tried an acceleration run today. Dry conditions, 18 deg.C, gentle breeze, Sport mode, S+ off. 0-60mph took 6.9 seconds, but I think I should have brake-torqued it for a little bit...
...the next run was in Sport mode, S+ off, fully brake-torqued.... No fake gear changes this time, and a significantly faster 0-60 mph time of 6.5 secs.
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Shouldn't be surprising to anyone paying attention. It's a slipperier civic for the purpose of such things so should at least match it. The gears/no-gears thing seems to be...
Gentle 12 mile drive home from my local town today. Some heavy traffic in town, where the Prelude was mainly in EV mode. A couple of villages with 30mph speed limits, then cruising at 50-60mph...
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Thinking about it I don't reckon brake-torquing will make any difference? At least in theory it shouldn't, with the electric motor doing all the work with instant torque etc... Sounds like you...
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I could go for a little more soundproofing and maybe a sunroof to be honest... Since I have the black interior and tinted windows in my new Prelude (first time in my life for tinted windows), and...
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It feels so good to take of those fogged up nostalgia goggles. Let’s face it: The only reason for a distracting, over complicated, power sapping, torque interrupting manual transmission and...
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My lovely new Prelude is three weeks old today and has rolled over 500 miles in total! :) Modern engines are built to very fine tolerances and don’t really need to be ‘run in’, the way that they did years ago. But that doesn’t...
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... if anything what I find quite impressive is that it isn't a feat of engineering in of itself. When you boil it down they took a Civic, gave it a pretty and swoopy body...
On the subject of oil changes, the (UK) manual states 6,000 miles. But Honda UK and dealers are saying 12,500 miles or one year 🤔. That seems rather too long between oil...
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Odd. It's the driver attention monitor, thought it was standard in all markets. It basically shouts at you for not keeping your eyes on the road.
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Yes it's quite confusing – and the official service schedule is just as unclear! It calls for servicing every 12,500 miles/12 months - whichever comes first. But then it goes on to require an...
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I'll eat my shoe if any standard dealer service plan honours that properly and doesn't just stick to the 12.5k/12 months. Of course they should, be they won't.
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Dismissing the build quality of an entire nation's motor industry because of one mis-positioned plastic cover seems a bit harsh! None of my Hondas (and especially not the new Prelude) seems...
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Hi guys, I got my black 'Lude in mid March, and I love it, but it doesn't come without some criticism. But then again, nothing in life does, so my happiness level with this vehicle is definitely high. And it's high because of the...
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Sorry to hear about that! My new Prelude doesn't have that problem, but two of my other Hondas did: My Honda e and my CR-V hybrid. In both cases I traced the problem to the...
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With forum members in the US/UK discussing fuel prices and gas mileage/mpg, there’s a risk of misunderstanding each other…😵💫 FUEL COST: UK gallons and US gallons are not the...
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Sorry to hear about that! My new Prelude doesn't have that problem, but two of my other Hondas did: My Honda e and my CR-V hybrid. In both cases I traced the problem to the camera cover (between...
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If you need garage tiles now is the time to do it. Been researching it for a while, cheapest I could find was at Home Depot for around $2.92/sq. ft. Fast Life is running a promotion right now...
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... the car returned a surprising 61.4 MPG during 1½ hour trip on A and B roads. The new Prelude is very economical, and your 61.4 mpg [UK] is not a freak result: my car seems to be doing about...
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This might upset some purists and garner me some hate, and I'm not claiming the Prelude is some performance monster, but... I’ve seen a lot of social media chatter and reviews writing the Prelude off as a slow eco-civic-coupe because of...
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You're right. The Prelude is an astonishing feat of engineering, and makes most of the cars that people get nostalgic about look decidedly 'last millenium'. All we need now is...
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Where I differ a little bit, is where the enhance electricity generation from high RPM is only charging the battery faster, the acceleration is not impacted as it received the...
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Well said. If you want to drive at 150mph in straight lines, then you'll need to buy a different car. But for a skilled driver on a twisty road, the Prelude is anything but slow and can safely...
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It feels so good to take of those fogged up nostalgia goggles. Let’s face it: The only reason for a distracting, over complicated, power sapping, torque interrupting manual transmission and...
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It feels so good to take of those fogged up nostalgia goggles. Let’s face it: The only reason for a distracting, over complicated, power sapping, torque interrupting manual transmission and...
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wow... I am so gelous... anyway the power reduction is for silence and pollution too... very restictrive law here... mrs fondercazzen in germany is really crazy... and I am avoiding the right bad...
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Pictures would be nice... Please 😁 Here ya go, it has a Voodoo motor in it from a 2019 GT350 and a 6 speed manual transmission.
Here's my Prelude arriving at the Honda dealer! I'm collecting it on Tuesday... :)
it's crazy how many times I go to the grocery store and I get comments by two or three people.
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it's crazy how many times I go to the grocery store and I get comments by two or three people. It's amazing how many people love it and also how many haters there are. I just don't get the hate...
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Same, I mean every time I go to the shopping center someone shows up to talk about the car...
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So nice to see the new baby... I remember mine on the first day, that's pure excitement. Nothing like that new car smell for sure!
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