Honda Inspire Modulo Touring Concept

Ready for Tokyo Auto Salon

By Frank de Leeuw van Weenen
December 28, 2007 1:20 PM
Filed Under: Honda, Japanese

At 2008 Tokyo Auto Salon

Last week we brought you news that the new Honda Inspire was launched in Japan, the Inspire is of course known as the Honda Accord in the US and Europe, followed shortly by the Mugen tuned version. For the 2008 Tokyo Auto Salon Honda in-house tuner Modulo has prepared an Inspire Modula Concept, a spiced up version for the local Japanese market.

The Inspire Modulo Concept features a new body kit (front and rear bumpers, side sills), new grille, new headlamps, crystal clear tail-lights, various chrome details and seven-spoke alloy wheels. Inside you will find two tone-leather and plenty of tech gadgets. Whether the underpinnings have been touched up too is not known, but we hope that the flash new exterior is backed up with a fine-tuned 3.5 litre V6 engine and suspension.

All in all it looks pretty good, but stay tuned for official details in January. More images at NihonCar.

Source: le Blog Auto

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Comments

muellr

December 28, 2007 9:32 PM

this is some angry comic style fast and furious boy racer, funny that the accord is the ultra safe bet kid of a car in the states...

GeeDougg

December 29, 2007 9:29 AM

Which is why I don't ever go by what "the States" consider a "safe bet" among cars....

NICKKOP

December 28, 2007 11:31 PM

LOOKS BEAUTIFUL, HONDA YOU ARE USUALLY VERY GOOD ABOUT USING YOUR OWN DESIGN/STYLING TECHNIQUES AND THIS WOULD BE ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF SUCH IF YOU HAD NOT TAKEN AUDI'S NEWEST HEADLIGHT DESIGN TREATMENT... NOT LIKE YOU HONDA.. VERY DISAPPOINTING... DID YOU GRAFT ON A SET OF AUDI B8 A4/A5 HEADLIGHTS OR JUST SNATCH THEIR DESIGN?

GeeDougg

December 29, 2007 9:28 AM

Is your capslock broken by any chance? :P Well, anyway, I agree for the most part. Except this isn't the first time Honda has copied something. Not that it matters though. The front grill on this car used to be beautiful and now it's, well, not. Way to ruin a nice design. I'll stick to the regular Inspire with the Mugen treatment minus the pointless/useless ricer spoiler.

NitrousOxide

December 29, 2007 4:36 AM

Finally, the got out of thier "conservative" prison.. Good looking car..

GeeDougg

December 29, 2007 9:31 AM

The interior and the rear aren't half bad, but a lot of the angular work looks unsorted and needlessly over-exaggerated as though they were desperate to express their desire to build a non-boring car. Well, at least they're getting there, I think.... Wheels are nice too....

my2cents

December 29, 2007 10:03 AM

silly name with overkill creases... still a long way to go to get anywhere near classy. then again, it's built for the guy who outgrows his souped-up Civic.

ck314

December 29, 2007 3:59 PM

Overdone crap, they should have thrown in those zebra-like floor mats the average Japanese is so fond of lol

buozgs01

December 30, 2007 2:41 AM

"NICKKOP" is right. It looks like the new Audi A4/A5.

GeeDougg

January 1, 2008 1:14 AM

Are any of you actually surprised though? They can't design too many pretty cars themselves, so eventually they'll have to copy others.... I'm not exactly shocked....

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