The Honda Prelude is a Chevrolet Blazer, but looks better

In 2018, Honda and General Motors announced that the two auto giants were teaming up to build two electric SUVs together. It’s special to see Americans and Japanese working together. The first, the Acura ZDX, was unveiled at this year’s Monterrey auto show. The second model of the collaboration is this Honda Prologue that uses the basis of the Chevy Blazer EV.

If we’re being honest, we’d much rather look at a Honda than a Chevrolet. Maybe that’s because of the Blazer EV’s I’m-trying-to-look-sporty-but-I’m-not type of front. The Prologue can be ordered in the US as EX, Touring and Elite trims and comes with either 19- or 21-inch wheels. Only the top trim gets sport mode, but that won’t change much about the SUV.

Details of Honda Prelude

Honda gets an 85-kWh battery that can take you up to 482 km. You can order the SUV with front, rear or four-wheel drive. Honda only shares the specs of the last variant: 292 hp and 451 Nm. This puts Honda nowhere near the more powerful Blazer EV. It has a power of 565 hp and 880 Nm of torque. So there is still a lot of profit to be made.

Inside you get what you expect from Honda. Simple layout of the dashboard with only important buttons. Every Prologue gets an 11-inch driver display and an 11.3-inch infotainment screen as standard. These are oddly spaced out, mainly because the center screen is at the top of the dashboard. Maybe it won’t be so bad in real life.

American Prelude Price

The Honda Prelude will go on sale next year. Honda says the price will be somewhere in the upper $40,000s. If replaced, the maximum price of the Prologue will be approximately 47,000 euros. The price will probably be close to that of the Blazer EV. The cheapest electric Blazer costs $47,595 in America (about 45,000 euros). At the moment there is no information that the car will come to the Netherlands.