PRIOR CONVICTION
Matt Prior
News that the upcoming Honda Prelude will have fake gearshifts has caused some consternation among enthusiasts in the various bits of the internet where we’re currently scattered. Quite a lot of sceptics, not much wild enthusiasm.
In their earlier incarnations, Preludes were among the best affordable driver’s coupés on the market, with high-revving VTEC engines mated to good manual gearboxes. There are plenty of people – and I will admit that I’m one of them – who mourn the demise of cars like that.
Some say, then, that Honda should just fit the new Prelude with a proper manual ’box, like you can still get in an Integra in some markets, and to heck with the inefficiency, because the Prelude is a sports coupé.