2024 Honda Prologue walkaround

The 2024 Honda Prologue will be Honda's first widely-available electric car available in the U.S. While it is based on the Chevy Blazer EV, it has a number of unique qualities, starting with its unique exterior and interior styling that are much cleaner and more reserved than the Chevy. Honda also claims unique suspension and steering tuning. It will be available with two powertrains, either a single-motor, front-drive setup or a dual-motor all-wheel-drive version. The latter will make 288 horsepower and 333 pound-feet of torque. Honda hasn't released single-motor specs yet. Both come with an 85-kWh battery pack, and the most efficient version (likely the single-motor Prologue), is expected to have around a 300-mile range. There are a couple other features that distinguish the Honda. It will have Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, but on the other hand, it will not be available with Super Cruise. The Prologue goes on sale early next year with a starting price in the high-$40,000 range.

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JOEL STOCKSDALE: We're here with the 2024 Honda Prologue. And this will be Honda's first mass market, readily-available, across the country electric car. At least in the US. And as you may have already read on "Autoblog," it's based mainly on the Chevy Blazer. However, as you can see, the styling is, pretty much, all Honda on the outside. And also, the suspension tuning has all been tweaked by Honda. And the design of it is very different than the Blazer that it's based on. It's very clean and smooth. Simple lines. It's quite uncluttered compared with the Chevy.

The long nose and kind of cab rear design of the Prologue give it a bit of a rear-wheel drive look. And that long nose is perched over the largest wheels that Honda has fitted to a production vehicle. These are the 21-inch wheels that are available on the Elite Trim. And while detailed, they are also fairly simple, and it goes along with the clean lines of the Prologue.

Moving back, we get more of a sense of the size of the Prologue. It's about 8 inches longer and 5 inches wider than a CRV. And has a fairly long wheelbase of a little more than 121 inches. That gives lots of space in the middle for people, as well as cargo. Of course, the whole thing is also fairly low, which gives it a very wide and kind of sporty-looking stance.

Coming around the back, we find very short overhangs. Something that's fairly typical of a lot of electric vehicles. And the back of the Prologue is fairly conventional-looking, but what is interesting is this taillight array here. And this center black panel features, instead of the Honda H badge, Honda spelled out in a unique font. This will be the treatment found on all future Honda electric vehicles, including ones that are 100% developed by Honda.

And that, pretty much, wraps up the exterior of the Prologue. We also particularly like the North Shore Pearl paint color on this top spec Elite Trim. Now while we're back here, we'll go ahead and take a look at the cargo area.

And popping open the hatch, you'll find about 25 cubic feet of space in this rear area, as well as just under a cubic foot of space underneath the mat. And folding down the rear seats, you'll get a little bit more than 57 cubic feet of space in total.

This is the Prologue's interior. And as you can see, design-wise, it's, again, much more Honda than it is GM. You can tell that from particularly in the dashboard design. You've got the full width air vent style. And it brings the whole dash fairly low. And then on top of that, you've got your screens for instruments and infotainment.