Honda e
I KNEW I wanted to drive the Honda e the moment I first laid eyes on it: with a pair of round LED headlights mounted either end of an oblong, none-more-black front surround, this little electric car seemed to be looking right back at me with a mischievous take-me-home twinkle in its own ‘eyes’.
As a child of the late 1970s whose love of cars and technology blossomed during the early 1980s, the Japanese giant’s first ever mass market all-electric vehicle – launched last year and specifically aimed at urban commuters – ticks a lot of boxes.
This little five-door hatchback’s super-cute, instantly identifiable ‘retro futuristic’ styling features cute design cues inspired by the front-end of the classic Mini 1275 GT, the side profile of the iconic VW Golf Mk1 (check that chunky raked C-pillar) and the general delightful Japanese dinkyness of Honda’s original 1970s ‘city car’, the first generation Civic, while also incorporating the best elements of Fiat’s gorgeous but now almost irritatingly ubiquitous 21