LEAKED: Legend Gets New Honda Visual Identity

[ShAwNeX]

http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080504....isual-identity




Style changes in Honda lineup will soon take a further step, as TheCarFanatic.com has shown us with pictures of the New Honda Legend, taken at the 2008 Busan Autoshow, in South Korea (check the plate with the name of the car and the place in which it has been shown, full of references to the model). No information has been officially disclosed on the new sedan so far, but we can surely say it is not a deep change, only a facelift on the previous version of the Legend, sold in the USA as the Acura RL.

Considering the New Accord (named Inspire for the Japanese market) got an upgraded V6 engine, with VCM (Variable Cylindre Management), which can switch off up to three cylindres, in order to improve fuel economy and lower emissions, the new Legend will also bring this engine as its main feature, besides the revised exterior. We can also expect for changes on the interior of the car, making it even more luxurious, but that is about everything Honda’s new sedan will present as news. Until, of course, its next generation brings a roomier interior and, why not, a V8 engine with rear-wheel drive. Hyundai has been faster in doing so by presenting the Genesis, or else, Honda and Toyota should not wait too much to follow the same steps.

[aaronng]

Rear looks hot like an S class. Front looks like an Euro with Civic headlamps.

[amato2]

I like it looks great... i still think they need to make a nice coupe out of this car with the V6 muscle i reckon that would be really cool

I also heard that this update brings in the new 3.7L V6

[jay_vtec]

Ohhh that is sex....love how they keep the gangsta appeal on the legends... love how it looks like they have mixed different sorts of hondas into this one..as stated above, bit of Euro, Civic ETC

wonder when there coming to aus

[JC_Vtec]

The back is an EXACt copy of the current S-Class

[j.meng87]

Like the rear but not the front. The new fog light and lower grill design somehow wreck the luxury look

[jeffske]

The back is an EXACt copy of the current S-Class

they look nothing alike

[ShAwNeX]

they look nothing alike

I can see some resemblance. The light design and just the overall fatness and chunkiness of the rear (especially the bulging bumper bar).

[Frost_FD]

Lets not hope its 80k or else no one is going to buy it.

[Alpine]

Meh..I prefer the look of the current Legend better.

[LXRY]

Looks like honda trying to enter the first class market......Bad move if they are......Legand by the looks of it is aimed at the older market say 40-50yo + market. Going by the the current model price at $74,500*+on road costs new model will be $80,000 +.

Hondas build quality not good enough for this market, atm.

[ludecrs]

^ Agreed. The car looks like it should sit in the 40-50K market.