Street Sighting ~ Honda Prelude

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A car I had forgotten about, but between work and lunch options there has been this Honda prelude parked up.

The owner always gets to work early and always takes the same park ensuring the car is in the shade. He always cracks the windows and puts the sun shade up. It's tidy but not perfect by any means.

My opinions on these really aren't interesting, I never felt any immediate attraction to the exterior but  I feel the opposite when it comes to the interior. Nineties as, but stylish.

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Sadly like the brochure photo, the red car is automatic. So why write about this car?

When I started posting the street sightings they began not to express solely my views or reactions to seeing cars but as a way of documenting what I see. This way in future times I can look back on both what I've spotted and my thoughts at the time. It's a record and hopefully it's potentially interesting/entertaining for anyone reading. So why this Prelude? Well I saw it listed on Facebook Marketplace. I felt sad that no longer will the owner commute to work in his nineties sports car.

While I don't particularity like this generation I understand it carried some glitz and grandeur. Honda fucking killed it in the nineties and it was reflected culturally. I would argue above all brands Honda shook off the racist taint of being Japanese the best. Don't get me wrong by the nineties Japanese cars well and truly put the nail-in-the-coffin for majority of the competition, but Honda aced it. 

I'm not going to bother commentate on this ad, the price, or the listing description. I won't include a track to play if owned either, because I don't want to own it. Instead I will embed a Japanese ad starring Ayrton Senna. It summarises my sadness for possibly longer waving (and giving a thumbs up) to the owner as we clock off at the end of the day.



 


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