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The Honda Sports 4 Concept was initially designed for the average person to have accessibility to modern sport cars. Typically the most exciting cars are just pipe dreams, driven by professional drivers and the wealthy. The Honda Sports 4 found the ingenuity to step away from the standard conceptualization of sports car driving and delivered a performance oriented vehicle straight to the average driver.

The mid-sized body delivers optimal performance without compromising too significantly on passenger space. This opens up availability to individuals with families, one of the top three reasons that a person does not own a high performance car. The balance between passenger room and optimal handling was calculated, tested, and created.

The Honda Sports 4 Concept utilizes the original and unique Honda specific superior All Wheel Drive Handling system that Honda created just for their higher performance vehicles. The superior All Wheel Drive Handling System delivers the appropriate torque to all four wheels which enhances cornering ability, dynamically improves stability, and maintains consistent handling.

The All Wheel Drive Handling System was created by Honda and designed not only to maintain better stability and control, but its innovative design was actually intended to hit the racing market at one point. The designers switched gears, so to speak, and continued to tweak its capabilities until the production of the Honda Sports 4 Concept commenced.

Behind the driver’s seat, great care was taken to orient all the gauges and switches for basic at-a-glance recognition and to excel in the development of intuitive driving. The four independent bucket seats provide everyone the thrill of sport car driving, even as a passenger. Special attention was paid to optimizing driver position in accordance with foot pedals, ease of switch controls such as climate control features and stereo buttons, in an effort to create a well organized orientation for natural motion regardless of the moment’s activity. This research will also be utilized on other Honda models.

The clean and dynamic lines are appeasing to the eyes, with just enough hint of performance begging ability. This car does not want to sit in a driveway and wait for the perfect Sunday drive. This car wants to become the primary vehicle used, and used hard, for every little trip to the grocery store, the midnight run for diapers, and the car that takes an enthusiastic owner back and forth to work. The unique body work does not denote Honda, it has exceeded all visual expectations.

The elegance in her overall appearance doesn’t fool anyone with her low inertia center of gravity body the practically pulls the road at a standstill. The Honda Sports 4 Concept has next generation written all over it. The cockpit hosts displays and controls that are uniquely melted into the interior, and feature an Intelligent Night Vision pop-up display that is automated to light sensitivity. Additionally, all four occupants have their own sky roof and sky roof controls. The front seats have had panels built into the back of the head rests, giving the rear passengers the ability to have instrumentation readings as part of the riding experience. Passengers were taken into as much consideration as the driver.

Honda revealed its new brain child at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show and received mostly accolades for the innovative and groundbreaking design. The unique shape of the headlights received quite a bit of attention, both the positive and negative kind. However, as far as sport oriented concept cars go, it was well received and well mentioned throughout the reports from Tokyo.

There is little information available on the Honda Sports 4 Concept, such as drive train statistics and configuration standards. There is an intentional mystery around the Honda Sports 4 Concept car. This mysterious anticipation has been an intentional marketing move, a desire to showcase to the public the incredible features of the car and allow for anticipation to build. It is suggested that when Honda reveals the heart of the vehicle, there will be plenty of ooh-ing and aah-ing and an excitable frenzy like growth in sales.

There is obvious power to the Honda Sports 4 Concept. She is road ready and anxious to handle just about anything that can be thrown at her. Her innovative design features stand out in a crowd, and her classy good looks bring forth full circle what performance car driving is really supposed to be all about.

In every documented review written on the Honda Sorts 4 Concept, the word sculpted continuously appears. And it’s true. Whether you are speaking of her elegance, her made for speed style, her interior, even right down to the design of the speedometer, this car looks more as though it has been sculpted as artwork rather then crafted in a factory.

The combination of grace, elegance, beauty, sculpted design, and state of the art technology with Honda specific features, the Honda Sports 4 Concept has a long future ahead with an unlimited supply of devotees. Based priced much lower than most performance cars, it is Honda’s eventual mission to bring the concept of free spirited road handling, and safe alternative sports car driving, into the hands of every man and woman who desires to experience what it is to fly down the open road.

Honda’s bold concept is innovative and actually a bit ahead of its time, bit it has the power to change sports car design of the future. Creating cars like these has been received with some criticism. There are those who say if you make them available to everyone they will lose their mystique. However, most critics disagree. The power of these cars is in the driving, not hanging their images on the wall as a teenager or plastering their images across your computer as a dream inspired screen saver. These images are wonderful, but the experience is truly in the driving, the feel of the power at the fingertips and of course, the power in the speed and the rapid acceleration. Allowing this access to more people is much more likely to result in more mystique and allure than ever before. Only time will tell.