WHAT WILL THE FIRST HONDA-SONY CAR LOOK LIKE?
The 2025 launch of the first Sonda (or should that be Hony?) is a long way off, but we have early clues as to how the car will look.
The exteriors of Sony’s Vision-s 01 saloon and Vision-s 02 SUV concepts are svelte, aerodynamic and unmemorable. The interior of the 02, with three screens stretching the width of the dashboard, is probably more central to its appeal, being a grown-up version of what’s seen today in the Honda E.
Honda and Sony have said their first car will “be centred around safety, entertainment and adaptability”, all of which point to self-driving ability.
Honda is working on a new
EV platform, e:architecture, to arrive in the second half of this decade, which could be made to fit the timescale, but it has also teased five e:nbadged EVS for China, based on a stretched E platform.
The first two e:n cars are conventional electric versions of ICE cars, but the bolder styling of the e:n SUV, e:n GT and e:n Coupé concepts could point to a less conventional look.