Honda HF-S Concept: SEMA 2007

Motoring Channel Staff - 31/October/2007

Las Vegas, USA — The world's biggest car tuning show, SEMA, takes place in Nevada every year where aftermarket tuners and car modification groups show off the 'special' stuff. 

Like Las Vegas, SEMA is a place of glitz and glamour, where the world's wildest and most freaked out cars are commonplace.

The 2007 SEMA show has been huge, with hundreds of chopped, cropped, and altered cars, and this is one of them: the Honda Accord HF-S Concept.

Crafted by Honda Access America, the Honda Accord Coupe gets a number of modifications, least of which is the electronically controlled power drive system that lets the driver adjust everything from traction control levels, to throttle response, suspension stiffness, and even the power steering ratio. 

It's also got a range of visual accoutrements, including LED driving lights, a new front bumper that has been designed "to create a vortex effect to enhance high-speed aerodynamics and engine cooling". 

As well as the new front end, the Honda Accord HF-S Concept gets carbon fibre wheel arches and an quasi rear diffuser that was designed to reduce drag. There's also a rear deck lid spoiler, "a prototype design engineered for high-speed down-force" according to Honda.

With a two-stage exhaust design, which is quiet at low throttle input levels and gets loud with higher loads, the Honda Accord HF-S sounds good and looks good. Finished with a metallic grey color, the exterior is accented by Cadmium Orange Pearl which is supposed to be a color derived from super-heated metal.

Honda says the Accord HF-S Concept shows what can be done with car customisation, and for all intents and purposes it look like an official concept car rather than a tuned up, pimped out custom ride.

John Mendel, the executive vice president of American Honda, said the new car shows where Honda is headed: "The Accord HF-S Concept provides a glimpse into the future of vehicle customization."

Key to the concept is the use of technology to electronically customize throttle response, suspension settings, steering boost, and traction involvement to the driver's taste. 

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