The newest within the pattern of automakers revealing cool automobiles that will likely be offered in China however not the US is Honda. The Japanese automaker has simply revealed the second set of its Ye Collection electrical autos at Auto Shanghai. The GAC Honda GT and Dongfeng Honda GT do not look very like a Civic or an Accord, however they do appear to be some very cool hatchbacks we might like to see on the street right here.
Honda
Japanese automaker Honda rose from the ashes of WWII and set about its enterprise as a producer of bikes initially, solely launching its first automotive, the T360 kei truck, in 1963. Founder Soichiro Honda focused the American market as crucial nut to crack, resulting in generations of iconic nameplates just like the Civic and Accord being amongst America’s best-selling passenger automobiles. Immediately, Hondas are famend for his or her security, practicality, and reliability, with a sprinkling of efficiency from fashions just like the Civic Sort R.
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24 September 1948
- Founder
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Soichiro Honda
- Headquarters
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Hamamatsu, Japan
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Publicly Traded
- Present CEO
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Toshihiro Mibe
Regardless of getting two totally different model names, these are two copies of the identical automotive. The one distinction is the headlights, the place the crimson GAC Honda mannequin will get a double stack of LED working lights, whereas the blue Dongfeng Honda has only one. They’re beauty quite than practical variations between the pairs.
The necessity for 2 automobiles comes from the three way partnership firms that make up Honda’s operations in China. Each Dongfeng and GAC have partnerships with Honda, which sells totally different China-market automobiles at totally different sellers; it is type of Nineteen Nineties GM, the place you had a number of automobiles with barely any variations past a badge.
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Honda did not have a lot to say about its new GT fashions. It described the 2 because the flagship of its Ye Collection, which incorporates the P7 and S7 crossovers, each barely taller variations of this identical physique design.
These two, together with the idea GT mannequin, have been revealed final yr. Honda mentioned they might include single-motor RWD and dual-motor AWD configurations. The model claims they signify its “want to allow everybody who drives Ye Collection fashions to unleash their innermost passions by means of the enjoyment of driving.” That most likely makes extra sense within the authentic Chinese language writing.
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Although the styling adjustments are tiny, Honda mentioned they’re significant. It calls the GAC model “a seamless, subtle and sensible sense of the longer term,” whereas the Dongfeng is “an emotional sense of the longer term that stimulates individuals who see the car.”
Tech-Heavy and Overloaded With Screens And AI
The screen-filled cockpit is meant to really feel like a racecar for the motive force. On the identical time, it is meant to ship a really totally different (however not clear how) expertise for the passenger. Different seen particulars embody side-view cameras rather than mirrors. The large array of screens will use Huawei’s sensible cockpit management system and can have superior voice management functionality.
Each new Ye mannequin will get an excessive dose of AI. The corporate mentioned it is going to use DeepSeek to “assist occupants and create extra snug and fulfilling area for mobility.” The tech will likely be on all future Ye Collection fashions and can get added over the air to the P7 and S7.
Whereas this second set of Ye fashions will include tech just like the S7 and P7, probably a 268-hp RWD single motor and 469 hp for the twin-motor AWD, the third spherical of Ye Collection automobiles will get an improve. These will use a next-gen platform developed by CATL that can see battery cells specified by the automotive’s physique as a substitute of in a separate pack.
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Honda plans to have 10 EVs in China by 2027, on the way in which to one hundred pc electrical in 2035. It isn’t clear if these two comparable GT Ye Collection fashions rely as one for that quantity, or as two.
