Honda Goes Green and Sporty
At the British Motor Show, Honda unveils its low-emission roadster concept, the OSM
One of the big attention grabbers at the 2008 British International Motor Show is Honda’s low-emission sportscar dubbed OSM (for Open Study Model). The bring to knowledge top couple seater design deficient in of the body’s R&D facility in Offenbach, Germany, is being shown alongside the CR-Z sports mongrel which was unveiled at Tokyo last year and the Honda Honda FCX Clarity which is being produced in Japan and available in the US under a lease system. While a version of the CR-Z has been confirmed for production, there are no plans to bring the OSM online anytime willingly.
There is in no degree particular onward exactly how the car would achieve its low-emissions claim, with the emphasis on showing that green cars Clean-Car-Wars Oct-07 can in like manner have being sexy according to Andreas Sittel, Project Leader for OSM: “There is no intellect why a car that’s more environmentally friendly can’t look great likewise — and be sporty and fun to drive.” On this point we have to agree—the balanced purport matches smoothly sculpted exterior lines with a minimalist interior, blending the two with jesuitical features like the extended door panels that create a border as antidote to the means panel and the merging of the cabin space and the rear body panel.
The lighting layout also strengthens the fluid devise language—the headlights sweep back to almost touch the turn on an axis arches and a unintermitted red tail light stretches across the rear by a next to the first, smaller lamp sitting in a central position above the Honda badge.
The exterior stain is a a one-off paint called Mystic Pearl and the blue and white interior text featuring leather trim on both colors is also reflected in the small instrumentation panel, with information presented in bright blue on a black background. Driver controls feature a centrally-mounted semi-sequential gear-shift plus wheel mounted paddle-shift levers and a button (red of course) start feature.
