Saw a Honda Prelude today

[owen k]

My old preludes.Long gone.
'95 si vtec 2.2. and type S.

[BGarside]

Always liked the shape of the early-to-mid-90s model, and remember LJK Setright waxing lyrical about them in Car Magazine in the late '80s / early'90s. The later model looked rubbish in comparison though...

Hardly any left now though and I understand I wouldn't fit inside even if I wanted to buy one (I'm 6'5).

[CallorFold]

Saw a rather dark-Green coloured one at the gym yesterday, white ish wheels. Didn't realise quite how long-bodied they are!

[kpb]

BGarside said:

Always liked the shape of the early-to-mid-90s model, and remember LJK Setright waxing lyrical about them in Car Magazine in the late '80s / early'90s. The later model looked rubbish in comparison though...

Hardly any left now though and I understand I wouldn't fit inside even if I wanted to buy one (I'm 6'5).

The problem might be fitting your legs under the steering wheel. There's not enough adjustment to create adequate clearance.

[crispyshark]

In answer to the OP's original point about 'where have they all gone'.....isn't it the classic ailment of tinworm that befalls most jap cars of that era?

[Sam1990]

Fantastic cars. I had a Mk5 2.2vti at 19 and it was the best thing since sliced bread when all of my friends were stuck in Corsas and Fiestas that cost twice as much. Reasonable pace, good (subjective) looks and could actually be reasonable on fuel if driven right. This car also taught me lots about lift off oversteer.

Dare I say this, but I think it actually sounded better than my MR2 Turbo when the engine was screaming away at 8,000 revs.

I miss both cars (now stuck in a company Focus 1.6tdi, shoot me) but I find myself missing the Prelude a tiny bit more as I gelled with that car better than the MR2, probably because the Prelude was bombproof and a lot more forgiving.

[kpb]

crispyshark said:

In answer to the OP's original point about 'where have they all gone'.....isn't it the classic ailment of tinworm that befalls most jap cars of that era?

Indeed - broken for parts by low income owners who can't afford the significant welding needed (esp the mk4) to get through MOTs, or let the arches go to the point they consider them too tatty to keep running.

[gaz1234]

A bit like the celicas (gt 4) style..

[d_a_n1979]

skinny said:

Still miss mine. Stupid bus driver wrote it off.

5th gen motegi with accord type r cams, clutch and lightened flywheel, d2 coilovers, upgraded downpipe, race cat, exhaust, buddyclub wheels. Flux gave me £900 for it. Gutted.




Never could parallel park tho

Edited by skinny on Sunday 6th July 23:57

Holy thread revival I know, but that's my old BB8 Prelude! Small world and only came across it as I found a picture on an old defunct Photobucket account and thought I'd see if I 'Google Searched' the picture and see what came up!

Was it yourself that bought it from me 'Skinny'?

[mrtwisty]

Butter Face said:

mrtwisty said:

One day, the right unmolested mk4 bb4 lightweight import that I've been looking for for years WILL come along....

Good luck! I'd imagine there aren't that many left worldwide!

6 years later - never did find one. Seems BF was right.

A late mk3 on a classic policy is becoming more and more tempting now...

[StuE39]

I had a mk4 2.2 VTEC - was a brilliant car - although the 4WS did take a bit of getting used to. Remember fondly collecting mine when I was around 20 years old and thinking how epic the digital wrap around dashboard looked. The VTEC changeover was brilliant, felt raw and mechanical when it kicked in and surprised a few people. Although I remember being surprised once by a rather unassuming looking OG Saab 9-3.....

[bristolracer]

I had 2 of the mk1s
Try finding one of those these days

[A Winner Is You]

It's a real shame there are so few affordable 2 door coupés around these days. Aside from Audi, BMW and Mercedes, only one I can think of is the Lexus RC and GT86/BRZ?

[Butter Face]

mrtwisty said:

Butter Face said:

mrtwisty said:

One day, the right unmolested mk4 bb4 lightweight import that I've been looking for for years WILL come along....

Good luck! I'd imagine there aren't that many left worldwide!

6 years later - never did find one. Seems BF was right.

A late mk3 on a classic policy is becoming more and more tempting now...

Haha. Hate to say I told you so..... I’d imagine they’re even rarer today than they were then!!

[jjones]

Import 2.2 vtec

[petrolbloke]

I haven't seen any on the road in a while.

The values of them have been lower than the Civic/Accord/Integra Type R models. Coupled with potentially expensive 4WS faults and rust, I can see why there's not many around now.

[biggbn]

My pop up headlight 2.0 16v auto with the 4ws was one of the best balanced nicest handling cars I have owned. Next gen 2.0 es was a decent steer as well

[Fastchas]

biggbn said:

My pop up headlight 2.0 16v auto with the 4ws was one of the best balanced nicest handling cars I have owned. Next gen 2.0 es was a decent steer as well

I had a gold one of these at the age of about 26, my first auto. My mates called it the pimpmobile so I changed it for a MkII MR2.

[Ari]

Yes, the swoopy mid Nineties version with a 2.2 vTec engine.

Horrific car, worst I've ever owned.

Fast in theory (think 0-60 was 6.5 seconds), utterly gutless in practice because unless you revved it right to the red line then you'd drop out of the vTec zone when you changed up and it would be flat until it crawled back into it.

But that wasn't the big problem. The big problem, in fact there were two, were:

So astonishingly noisy at motorway speeds that opening a window or sunroof made almost no obvious difference to ambient noise levels. You'd stop at a service station then get back in, turn the ignition on and be deafened by the stereo as it had been turned up so loud.

Seats so uncomfortable that I could time almost to the minute that I'd been driving for an hour because that's when the backache hit. Not fun on a 3 hour drive.

Very pretty to look at, made a great noise, utterly useless as an actual car.

Changed it for a very dull Audi A3 T-Sport, what an utter relief that car was.

[ozzuk]

Uber rare cars now, I had two type S versions. Amazing cars -the digital dash is probably the nicest interior I've seen on any vehicle. The first one, proper gold badge type S from Japan, took ages to get it then rolled it after 3 weeks ownership. Second was a fully kitted type S and sold it to a fellow prelude forum member. I'd love another but virtually impossible to buy.