New old guy here.

[OldCoupeGRGuy2]

Getting my blue Prelude in 1st week August.
I am generally a Toyota fan and fully expected to get the new RAV4 but called in to be nosey at the prelude in the showroom. I fell in love with it there and then. Went home and went down the rabbit hole watching all of the youtube videos. Don't want to listen again at:
It still has a prop rod for the bonnet rather than struts.
Door is too thin and his elbow slides off.
It's too expensive - I agree but its built in Japan so americans pay 15% extra -----for some reason!
Don't take this the wrong way but I found the American reviewers obsessed with power and wishing it was something else. Being from Yorkshire in the North of England I found the European / Ausie reviewers much better.
They seemed to get this car straight away. A beautiful drivers car that you can use all of the adequate power most of the time.
This is my 4th coupe bought new - Ford Capri and two Celicas.
In my mid 60s I decided I had to get another while I can get in and out - plus, it is absolutely stuning.
I do have another car - a Toyota GR Yaris which gives me the turbo 4 wheel drive thrills.
My fun drives are in the fabulous Yorkshire dales and recently drove the far north Scotland NC500. May do that again in the Prelude.
The people who understand this car will admire it for what it is and not for what else it could have been.
Can't wait to get it and drive into the dales.
Will be watching how other owners are getting on and asking a few questions.
P.S. If you want to see this car driven on Swedich rally type roads watch "Seb on wheels" on YT. I watched this a few times and now ignore any reviews done on straight, wide and flat roads. Well worth watching and see him smile.

 

[El Chorizo9]

Getting my blue Prelude in 1st week August.
I am generally a Toyota fan and fully expected to get the new RAV4 but called in to be nosey at the prelude in the showroom. I fell in love with it there and then. Went home and went down the rabbit hole watching all of the youtube videos. Don't want to listen again at:
It still has a prop rod for the bonnet rather than struts.
Door is too thin and his elbow slides off.
It's too expensive - I agree but its built in Japan so americans pay 15% extra -----for some reason!
Don't take this the wrong way but I found the American reviewers obsessed with power and wishing it was something else. Being from Yorkshire in the North of England I found the European / Ausie reviewers much better.
They seemed to get this car straight away. A beautiful drivers car that you can use all of the adequate power most of the time.
This is my 4th coupe bought new - Ford Capri and two Celicas.
In my mid 60s I decided I had to get another while I can get in and out - plus, it is absolutely stuning.
I do have another car - a Toyota GR Yaris which gives me the turbo 4 wheel drive thrills.
My fun drives are in the fabulous Yorkshire dales and recently drove the far north Scotland NC500. May do that again in the Prelude.
The people who understand this car will admire it for what it is and not for what else it could have been.
Can't wait to get it and drive into the dales.
Will be watching how other owners are getting on and asking a few questions.
P.S. If you want to see this car driven on Swedich rally type roads watch "Seb on wheels" on YT. I watched this a few times and now ignore any reviews done on straight, wide and flat roads. Well worth watching and see him smile.

Welcome to the site @OldCoupeGRGuy -- glad to have you aboard!

 

[Alex_Waverley26]

Welcome! I could not have said it better myself.

The Prelude is the Elle McPherson of automobiles; Fast, but not too fast and drop-dead gorgeous.

 

[El Chorizo9]

Well said guys!

 

[supersix7]

P.S. If you want to see this car driven on Swedich rally type roads watch "Seb on wheels" on YT. I watched this a few times and now ignore any reviews done on straight, wide and flat roads. Well worth watching and see him smile.

Thanks for the tip, will check that out now and welcome to the forum!

 

[Jusbs54915]

Welcome to the forum, and welcome to the 'Blues Brothers' !!!

 

[CiceroGirl]

Welcome! I’m an old American woman (let’s just say over 55, LOL) and I find the obsession by American men (sorry, but it is almost always men bashing the new Prelude) with 0-60 times and horsepower numbers both amusing and annoying. What I think is odd is that they always ignore the fact that the new Prelude has significantly more torque than the Gen 4 and 5 Preludes had. (I had a 1999 that I absolutely loved, but I had to give up when I needed a real back seat.)

The Prelude was *never* about straight line speed. It was *always* about a somewhat upscale interior (compared to the Civics and Accords of the day), a platform for new Honda tech (even if that technology is just putting heat/air conditioning vents in the door (Gen 4)), and the handling. It was primarily about the handling.

No, the Gen 6 doesn’t have a manual transmission (which still does make me sad some days) or a moonroof which all the other Preludes had (yet there are a lot of surviving Gen 5s with automatic transmission that I have seen for sale… and none of those MT “purists” dare tell the people selling an AT Prelude that it isn’t a REAL Prelude… but it does have a very nice cabin (front, anyway… I absolutely hate the way the rear seat looks), has some new tech, and handles great!

This new one also looks a LOT better than those old boxy Gen 1, 2, and 3 Preludes looked even when boxy cars were the style! Every time I see some guy complaining about how his mother’s minivan beats the Prelude in 0-60 time, I want to ask the guy if he frequently sits at stop lights on his way to Walmart on a Friday night, waiting to race someone in the next lane when the light turns green!