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OSM Concept Honda

The OSM, or Open Study Model, is a two-seat roadster—like the CR-Z amalgam sports car aboriginal apparent at the 2007 Tokyo auto show—designed to appearance that Honda can aftermath a low-emissions car that’s still adventurous and fun to drive.

As this is primarily a architecture concept, Honda’s befitting mum about powertrain options—odd for a car that it is touting as eco-friendly—though we wouldn’t be afraid to see the aforementioned amalgam drivetrain as the CR-Z.

In designing the OSM, which angled at the British auto show, Honda aimed for a attending that was “clean and dynamic.” As such, the auto shares abounding similarities with the CR-Z, including a across-the-board foreground end with attenuated LED lights and a broad air intake. The rear end is angled and annular with a behemothic band of LED taillights. In fact, the OSM looks like a convertible adaptation of the CR-Z.

Sporting touches abound inside, including a big red agitation button à la Honda S2000. Abounding added autogenous pieces attending like they came from the CR-Z, including the split-level speedometer and tachometer arrangement, blue gauges, and council wheel. Paddles army on the council caster aswell adumbration at the achievability of a sequential-manual transmission.

The auto should be failing and aerodynamic, in befitting with Honda’s environmentally amenable goals.

The OSM was advised in Honda’s German architecture studio, and there are no affairs for production. However, as Honda tries to access up sales of hybrids over the next few years, we attending advanced to approaching sporty-but-economical offerings in the aforementioned attitude as the OSM.