Body
The Honda Pilot is built on a crossover SUV platform that combines the safety, packaging and handling advantages of a car-based unit body design while still delivering the rugged versatility that mainstream consumers most frequently use in a SUV. The Pilot’s highly-rigid platform with isolated front and rear subframes provides the foundation for many of its refined attributes, including its outstanding handling agility, exceptional ride comfort, world-class safety performance and packaging efficiency. For 2009, the Pilot’s body integrates the Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE®) body structure for enhanced frontal crash safety with vehicles of different bumper heights, along with the most extensive use of high strength steel in any Honda automotive product to date. Interior
The interior of the Honda Pilot is designed to provide a comfortable experience for all passengers in business class style. A rearview camera is standard on the Pilot EX-L and Pilot Touring models.

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Chassis
As a crossover SUV that mixes car sensibilities with the truck capabilities, the Honda Pilot is designed to deliver a confident, secure and fun driving experience with outstanding isolation of undesirable noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) for exceptional comfort in all driving conditions. The Honda Pilot provides an exceptionally-wide wheel track of 67.7 inches front and 67.5 inches rear for high levels of handling stability and interior space. Powertrain
The Honda Pilot is designed to provide a comfortable, confident and fun driving experience with plenty of power to match its capabilities as an eight-passenger SUV with off-road capabilities and up to 4,500-pound towing capabilities (4WD). For 2009, Honda engineers prioritized fuel efficiency for the all-new Pilot and applied the latest generation of the company’s Variable Cylinder Management technology to all models. The Honda Pilot is powered by an advanced 3.5-liter 24-valve i-VTEC, V-6 engine mated to an electronically-controlled 5-speed automatic transmission. The Pilot meets California’s stringent Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle (ULEV-2) exhaust emissions standards. A fully-automatic Variable Torque Management 4-wheel drive system (VTM-4) is available on all models and delivers seamless “decision free” application of four-wheel drive when needed.
Safety
Honda has consistently challenged itself to pursue vehicle safety as part of its core business strategy. This process benefits all new Honda vehicles – regardless of size or price – while also increasing compatibility with other types of vehicles in a frontal collision.
The 2009 Honda Pilot exemplifies the Honda approach to safety. Every Honda Pilot incorporates side-curtain airbags and dual-chamber, front-side airbags with a passenger-side Occupant Position Detection System (OPDS); and active front seat head restraints that are designed to help reduce the severity of neck injury in the event of a rear collision.
Vehicle Stability Assist™ (VSA®) and an Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) with brake assist are standard equipment on every Honda Pilot.
Additional standard safety features include dual-stage, dual-threshold front airbags, front seatbelts with automatic-tensioning systems and load limiters, and a pedestrian injury mitigation design in the front of the vehicle.

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The Skydeck concept is a six-seater hybrid that appears to have a relation to the CR-Z concept first shown off at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2007.  Unlike the CR-Z which is nothing more than a thinly veiled preview of an upcoming production model, the Honda Skydeck remains a pure design study at this point. While most automakers would provide a full list of specifications for a concept that is nothing more than a fiberglass buck, Honda isn’t bothering with even that.

The Skydeck appears to have a higher rear-end with a flatter roofline.  It also has a new front-end that eliminates the sports features seen on the CR-Z nearly two years ago.  Honda has tinted the windows green, adding other green touches to give a stereotypical, “environmentally friendly” look. The MPV comes with a center-mounted battery to give more space inside the cabin.  It has three rows of seating, with a pair of seats in each row.

Honda S2000 Ultimate Edition has been unveiled by Honda following their previous announcement about the production stop of this model. With the same 2.0 liter 9000 rpm VTEC engine as the power, Honda S2000 Ultimate Edition may outputs 240PS.Comes with a Grand Prix White body, Honda S2000 Ultimate Edition also equipped with graphite colored alloy wheels and black badging. Honda S2000 Ultimate Edition’s interior will features unique numbered plaques on the kickplates, red leather, and stitching.

Honda has announced that the Honda S2000 Ultimate Edition will go on sale from March 2009 in Europe. The Ultimate Edition retains its highly acclaimed 2.0 liter 9000 rpm VTEC engine and combines it with a Grand Prix White body and graphite colored alloy wheels. The special-edition S2000 Ultimate Edition will get a unique white exterior with a red leather interior complemented by red stitching for the gear lever. Honda says it has sold a total of 110,673 units of the model worldwide

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The FC Sport emphasizes the design flexibility and potential of Honda’s V Flow fuel cell technology – already deployed in the Honda FCX Clarity sedan – and reconfigures it into a lightweight sports car design with an ultra-low center of gravity, powerful electric motor performance and zero-emissions. The design study concept is inspired by supercar levels of performance through low weight and a high-performance, electrically driven fuel cell powertrain.

‘The Honda FC Sport explores how to satisfy automotive performance enthusiasts in a world beyond petroleum,’ said Dan Bonawitz, vice president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. ‘People who love sports cars will still have a reason to love in a hydrogen-powered future.’

The high-output Honda fuel cell powertrain and a sleek, aerodynamic body contribute to the vehicle’s performance potential. A modular approach to fuel cell component packaging and the electric drivetrain contribute to the FC Sport’s low center of gravity with the majority of vehicle mass distributed between the axles, creating the balanced weight distribution sought after in sports cars.

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Japan’s obsession with cute is well evidenced in the Honda PUYO. Resembling a box turtle in repose or a cartoon crab, Honda tells us the PUYO aches for cuddling. The goal in rendering the PUYO’s exterior was to create “a personable design with the feel of an adorable pet.” The name is Japanese onomatopoeia meant to convey “the sensation of touching the vehicle’s soft body,” Honda says. The “gel body” is not only nice to touch, it also promotes “greater, real-world safety,” Honda says. The boxy design is meant to supply maximum spaciousness, but the there are no sharp edges or corners, in keeping with the cuddly motif. Teeny wheels pivot independently and enable the car to turn 360 degrees, which is great for parallel parking. Lamborghini-style doors swing upward to open and provide access in tight parking spots. Technical features, such as a fuel-cell propulsion system notwithstanding, there’s an overriding emphasis on tactile sensation and people-car relations.

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