At the British Motor Show, Honda unveils its low-emission horse concept, the OSM
One of the big attention grabbers at the 2008 British International Motor Show is Honda’s low-emission sportscar dubbed OSM (for Open Study Model). The open top two seater design aloud of the company’s R&D facility in Offenbach, Germany, is being shown alongside the CR-Z sports hybrid which was unveiled at Tokyo last year and the Honda Honda FCX Clarity that is being produced in Japan and available in the US under a lease plan. While a version of the CR-Z has been confirmed for production, in that place are no plans to bring the OSM online anytime soon.
There is no detail on exactly in what state the car would achieve its low-emissions claim, with the emphasis attached showing that green cars Clean-Car-Wars Oct-07 can also be sexy according to Andreas Sittel, Project Leader for OSM: “There is no judgment for what cause a car that’s more environmentally friendly have power to’t look great too — and be sporty and pleasantry to drive.” On this projection we have to agree—the balanced design matches smoothly sculpted exterior lines with a minimalist interior, blending the two with jesuitical features like the extended door panels that constitute a border for the document panel and the merging of the cabin space and the rear body panel.
The lighting layout furthermore strengthens the fluid design language—the headlights sweep in the educate to almost touch the roll forward arches and a continuous red tail light stretches transversely the rear with a second, smaller lamp sitting in a central position above the Honda shield of office.
The exterior garble is a a one-off depict called Mystic Pearl and the blue and white interior theme featuring leather trim without interruption as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but colors is also reflected in the small instrumentation panel, by information presented in bright blue on a black background. Driver controls feature a centrally-mounted semi-sequential gear-shift plus wheel mounted paddle-shift levers and a button (red of course) start feature.
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