Spanish designer's Honda RA-X concept has us intrigued
by Jonathon Ramsey on Sep 8th 2009 at 7:58PM 
Honda RA-X Concept by Xuacu Perez -- Click above for high-res image gallery
With the S2000 going, going, gone and sports car fans left to wait until the CR-Z arrives, some car designers have taken to creating Honda sports cars on their own. This effort is from Spaniard Xuacu Perez, who wanted to design a modern Honda that spoke to the company's Formula 1 cars from the sixties.
It's called the RA-X, the first two letters pulled from Honda's F1 nomenclature, with a direct tie being the exhaust outlets, which mimic those on the RA300 from 1967. Quite compact at just 13.3 feet long, 3.8 feet high, and 6.4 feet wide (4050 mm / 1163 mm / 1940 mm), theoretical power could be in excess of 350 hp from the mid-engined, rear-wheel drive layout.
The X in the name comes from the cross formed by the side's design elements. It's all kinds of edges and smooth bits all mixed together, with a rear end that reminds us of a slightly softer Zenvo ST1... which gets us to wondering what a small, nimble, Zenvo-by-Honda could be... And that's reason alone to justify the RA-X's existence. Hat tip to LoboSylva
Gallery: Honda RA-X Student Concept
[Source: Xuacu Designs]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
skine 8:06PM (9/08/2009)
looks a little bit like the Ford gt90 concept from 14 years ago lol
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Victor 8:13PM (9/08/2009)
Dear Honda: Dump Crosstour, send this.
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cFoo 12:03AM (9/09/2009)
It won't make it to North America. The folks at the "Advanced Design Studio" will shot it down. They have too much ego to accept foreign beauties.
What did you think happened when Honda gave them a European wagon? "we won't take it, we can do better. Behold the Crosstour!"
ropeburn 8:15PM (9/08/2009)
this is hot.... I likey
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clatterfan 8:23PM (9/08/2009)
Wow it does look the the GT90! It just proves that everything's been done!
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AMcA 8:26PM (9/08/2009)
Very F-117 stealth fighter.
The proportions are odd, but somehow it manages to look fast. Don't ask me how.
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JSams4131 8:26PM (9/08/2009)
beautiful
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Quan 8:27PM (9/08/2009)
That roofline is also from the Nissan GT-R. Interesting concept regardless though.
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JDM Life 8:43PM (9/08/2009)
Its nice hate the rear end.
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Dev 8:47PM (9/08/2009)
Design itself is quite nice. Too bad that it screams Lambo rather than Honda, especially that front profile.
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AMP 8:56PM (9/08/2009)
Please Honda build something, if not this, something similar. I've always driven hondas since i began driving 16yrs ago unitl now. I drive a subaru b/c nothing on the honda lot is really that interesting now. I'll be back when the fun comes back!
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Motor_Yakuza 9:06PM (9/08/2009)
This could be an awesome NSX.
*drools*
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geotang 9:21PM (9/08/2009)
See Honda/Acura USA Team?
You gotta FIRE ALL your designers.... Damn it!
You guys couldn't do something better than your European Colleague?
Honda Accord (Inspire), New TSX, New TL, New RL, New ZDX, and so on with the Acura Guillotine FUGLY Grill, and now with the new Crosstour....
Seriously, FIRE ALL, or you'll see the sales number to drop flat dead...
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Joseph 9:21PM (9/08/2009)
If they produced this, everyone would complain that it has an ugly front end from Acura or something.
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MichaelS 11:38AM (9/09/2009)
Ugly front end from Acura? Geez, it looks more the nose of a proboscis monkey (http://allhatnocattle.net/victo.jpg)
happyfun86 9:29PM (9/08/2009)
Looks like a mishmash of Lamborghini and Koenigsegg styling cues, which isn't necessarily a good thing, but also not necessarily a bad thing. Either way, they need to hire some designers with this type of artistic eye and dump the geniuses that came up with the Crosstour.
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Xa 9:58PM (9/08/2009)
the side profile looks too tall and goofy, but the overall concept has some great lines.... i say stretch it another foot and cut the roof down 8 inches, then slap an NSX badge on it. done.
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nastinupe 10:22PM (9/08/2009)
Better than anything coming from Honda by a long shot... which means that they won't like it or do it.
Honda's next vehicle will be a 7 door Station Wagon Vehicle called an SWV. It will have that fake front wheel loving AWD and look like a bucked tooth hawk had sex with a whale.
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Vision7 10:26PM (9/08/2009)
A very interesting design, indeed. The nose appears to take its styling cues directly from Honda's CBR1000RR. I like it.
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carcustomizer07 10:33PM (9/08/2009)
The headlights from a Lamborghini Gallardo, the roofline of a Nissan GT-R, and the horizontal rear diffuser lines from an Audi R8...
Beautiful concept and indeed would look awesome as a new NSX, but it needs a little bit more Honda-esque originality to it. Or who knows, maybe Honda SHOULD co-op with Lamborghini or Audi??
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