RE: Shed of the Week: Honda Prelude

[talksthetorque]

The only sphincter-twinkling one of these caused me was when I order a Madras instead of the usual rogan josh from my local catmeat-in-bright-orange-sauce takeaway and it was delivered in a burgundy one of these with the compulsory food delivery black bumper mod

[dotgillingham]

Loved these when they were new and they've aged really well to my eyes. Better than their replacement anyway...

[The Don of Croy]

The 4ws thing was always a novelty - I've never driven one but it's tempting. A local garage owner had one of the Gen2 as a snotter and would perform the tightest U-turns in the car park we'd ever seen (except for our forklift).

Wonder if this technology will reappear?

[J4CKO]

£995, wow, great value for what is a tidy classic in the making, someone please snap it up and cherish it, people are now paying 20 grand for old Escorts, hundreds of thousands for old Porsches, this can be had for not much more than a bloody Iphone, 180 ish bhp, comfy interior, decent handling, good looks, does that manky old 5 door Mk1 Escort 1.3 still seem like 8 grands worth ? There is proof there is still great stuff out there for the less well heeled enthusiast despite the daft price bubble, you just need to be more esoteric in your choices.

[drdino]

Already has.

[geeks]

Loved these things for years since my dad had a MK1 with the pop up headlights many years ago! Very underated which is a shame. Honda should revisit the prelude

[talksthetorque]

J4CKO said:

£995, wow, great value for what is a tidy classic in the making, someone please snap it up and cherish it, people are now paying 20 grand for old Escorts, hundreds of thousands for old Porsches, this can be had for not much more than a bloody Iphone, 180 ish bhp, comfy interior, decent handling, good looks, does that manky old 5 door Mk1 Escort 1.3 still seem like 8 grands worth ? There is proof there is still great stuff out there for the less well heeled enthusiast despite the daft price bubble, you just need to be more esoteric less Dagenham in your choices.

[LordGrover]

geeks said:

Loved these things for years since my dad had a MK1 with the pop up headlights many years ago! Very underated which is a shame. Honda should revisit the prelude

Gen 1 didn't have pop-up lights. That was 2 & 3.

& yes, I agree.

[rtz62]

Iirc, if the 4WS goes faulty then owners 'lock them off', although I'm not sure how this is done.
To be fair, unless the (electrically operated, on this model Prelude) 4WS system was regularly checked and any reparatory work done it's unlikely to have survived the ravages of time. I remember stories of owners kerbing the rear wheels which of course caused problems with the system.
I'd admit that the looks are quite 'marmite' (a little like Mrs Shed, apparantly) but when you look at how little it weighed (1345kg), and that its 160bhp gave it 0-60 in around 8 secs and a top end of circa 136mph, I'd suggest it does everything you could reasonably want of a car in today's clogged motoring environment. Plus being 14.5 feet long and 5.7feet wide (the car, not Mrs Shed. Or is it the other way round??) it occupies a relatively small space on the road; probably to small to squeeze in the copious derrière of Mrs Shed, which is a bonus ...

[AH33]

KimJong - Yours hasn't been back on the road since 2009

LordGrover - Yours appears to have vanished off the face of the earth.

Good tool https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

[FN2TypeR]

The Don of Croy said:

The 4ws thing was always a novelty - I've never driven one but it's tempting. A local garage owner had one of the Gen2 as a snotter and would perform the tightest U-turns in the car park we'd ever seen (except for our forklift).

Wonder if this technology will reappear?

I believe Renault are looking at four wheel steering with the new Megane.

Lest I have myself in a tizzy

[parabolica]

FN2TypeR said:

The Don of Croy said:

The 4ws thing was always a novelty - I've never driven one but it's tempting. A local garage owner had one of the Gen2 as a snotter and would perform the tightest U-turns in the car park we'd ever seen (except for our forklift).

Wonder if this technology will reappear?

I believe Renault are looking at four wheel steering with the new Megane.

Lest I have myself in a tizzy

4ws was available on that Laguna coupe from a few years ago too.

[s m]

rtz62 said:

Iirc, if the 4WS goes faulty then owners 'lock them off', although I'm not sure how this is done.
To be fair, unless the (electrically operated, on this model Prelude) 4WS system was regularly checked and any reparatory work done it's unlikely to have survived the ravages of time. I remember stories of owners kerbing the rear wheels which of course caused problems with the system.
I'd admit that the looks are quite 'marmite' (a little like Mrs Shed, apparantly) but when you look at how little it weighed (1345kg), and that its 160bhp gave it 0-60 in around 8 secs and a top end of circa 136mph, I'd suggest it does everything you could reasonably want of a car in today's clogged motoring environment. Plus being 14.5 feet long and 5.7feet wide (the car, not Mrs Shed. Or is it the other way round??) it occupies a relatively small space on the road; probably to small to squeeze in the copious derrière of Mrs Shed, which is a bonus ...

Isn't this a VTEC one with over 180bhp or have I missed a bit?

[Itsallicanafford]

this looks like a peach...my shed of the year

[LordGrover]

AH33 said:

KimJong - Yours hasn't been back on the road since 2009

LordGrover - Yours appears to have vanished off the face of the earth.

Good tool https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

I must've got the reg wrong, though I'd wager a decent wedge it's right. It was a while ago.
Pretty sure my Gen 5 was T671VHU.

[W00DY]

Top shedding.

Would definitely be over there if I didn't have too many cars already.

[KPB1973]

drdino said:

Already has.

I think you bought my first one off me in a rainy night in Cov. It went on to be the one in the mega build thread on the Prelude forum.

My second went to a Honda enthusiast in Yorkshire, but not before I had my time wasted by every Innit Bruv idiot in the UK.

[bqf]

drdino said:

Already has.

Have you bought it? Bugger. Only shed I really wanted to go out and buy immediately for years.

Damn you work!

[R8Steve]

I had one of these, an L reg the same colour/spec as this one and it was a great car.

It's only flaw for me was the fact it dropped out of the VTEC when changing from 1st to 2nd unless you changed perfectly on the redline before the limiter.

[Blackpuddin]

bqf said:

drdino said:

Already has.

Have you bought it? Bugger. Only shed I really wanted to go out and buy immediately for years.

Damn you work!

I think he was referring to the post above about steering tech, it's still for sale as of 12.10pm.