HONDA E AND FIREBLADE TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT PRESTIGIOUS RED DOT DESIGN MUSEUM

  • Award-winning Honda e and CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP inducted into entire world-renowned Purple Dot Structure Museum
  • Structure experts present Honda e as a ‘car of the future’, with remarkable design and floor-breaking connectivity, awarding it two Purple Dot accolades
  • CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP superbike recognised for its outstanding design and well balanced general performance
  • Award wins replicate Honda’s determination to producing stunning solutions that are designed with out compromise

 

Honda’s upcoming-era electrical automobile, the Honda e, and CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP superbike have been inducted into the historic Purple Dot Structure Museum, a single of the world’s most considerable exhibitions of up to date design. The Honda e also normally takes centre phase in the specific “Milestones in Present-day Structure” exhibition, as a single of the seventy six best solutions of 2020 and a latest marker in international products design.

 

Honda’s really acclaimed Honda e compact electrical automobile was recently awarded the ‘Red Dot: Most effective of the Most effective 2020’ award for floor-breaking products design. This is the maximum honour in the internationally renowned Purple Dot Award: Item Structure and is reserved for the best solutions in each classification. The Honda e also obtained the Purple Dot 2020 accolade in the meta-classification ‘Smart Products’, while the CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP was awarded a Purple Dot for outstanding design in the motorcycle classification.

 

Both of those autos are an critical section of the 2020/21 specific exhibition in the internationally renowned Purple Dot Structure Museum, Essen, Germany.

 

Peter Zec, CEO and founder of the Purple Dot Structure Award claimed: “The Honda e is not just a automobile – it is much much more. The Honda e was awarded the Purple Dot: Most effective of the Most effective due to the fact the jury was amazed by the automobile at very first sight. There was no question it was worthy of the award from the starting.

 

Honda is struggling with the challenges [of city mobility] by way of fantastic exploration and enhancement do the job to come across the proper resolution for the potential. I believe the Honda e stands for a kind of paradigm change: we are not just conversing about e-mobility, we are conversing about new options in the digital entire world and Honda e matches completely into this scenery. It connects your house with mobility, it is a real sensible products and it goes much over and above our creativity. I will not know any other automobile that can accomplish this at the second.”

 

From the unique concave black panels and signature front and rear LED mild combinations, to the thoroughly clean traces and flush characteristics that optimise aerodynamic efficiency and refinement, the Honda e reimagines the identification of a compact Honda for the upcoming period of city mobility. Further more emphasising the car’s exacting design philosophy is a Facet Digital camera Mirror Process that replaces common facet view mirrors – a very first in the compact section.

 

Makoto Iwaki, the Govt Artistic Director for Honda e, added: “Honda e was designed to make a new partnership involving men and women, modern society and the automobile, while incorporating Honda’s potential eyesight. We will carry on to do our best to realise the eyesight by way of Honda Structure. I’m delighted to receive this prestigious award, and at the same time extremally very pleased that it is in the Purple Dot Structure Museum for the entire world to appreciate and delight in. Thank you to everyone, thank you pretty much.”

 

The new Honda e is the brand’s very first output battery electrical automobile for the European industry. The product is a important section of Honda’s determination to see all its automobile product ranges in Europe electrified by 2022.

 

The CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP, which won the Purple Dot 2020 award in the motorcycle classification, is the latest two-wheeled equipment to have the legendary Fireblade nameplate. The new 2020 product was designed under the tagline ‘Born to Race’, with an unwavering concentrate on circuit general performance and a radical new design.

 

The Purple Dot judges place the superbike by way of its paces around many times to check its general performance, in addition to evaluating its operation and design.

 

Peter Zec commented: “If I’m wondering about Honda, the very first factor that comes to head is motorbikes. The Fireblade deserves the Purple Dot due to the fact the jury favored it pretty much – and we have really crazy judges that challenged the bike, like a professional racing bike rider. It’s not just great design – it has best general performance as well, which is the main rationale why it obtained the Purple Dot.”

 

In its evaluation, the judging panel commended the CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP for its racing-encouraged design, perfectly well balanced traces and aerodynamic styling. Judges also praised the entertaining working experience it delivered and outstanding general performance when analyzed. Its minimalist frontal area, aggressively angled facet fairings and prolonged reduced fairings – additionally a wide range of apertures, slits and air-channelling shapes – incorporate to make a best-in-course drag coefficient. Aerodynamic ‘winglets’ as applied on Honda’s MotoGP RC213V racing bike incorporate eye-catching type with uncompromising purpose, massively growing downforce and stability for final control of the most potent inline 4-cylinder engine Honda has ever produced.

 

Satoshi Kawawa, General Manager, Motorbike Structure Division, added: “The CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP was designed to acquire races in any classification – from club racing to international level of competition. Its design and styling are led by that philosophy – with every section and every depth designed with speed, general performance and aerodynamic efficiency in head. We’re honoured that it has been recognised with these a prestigious award.”

The yearly Purple Dot Award: Item Structure honours excellence in products design from international corporations. The winning solutions are decided on by a judging panel comprised of 40 international experts who check, examine and discuss each entry. The Purple Dot Structure museum hosts the world’s biggest exhibition of up to date design in the former boiler property of the UNESCO Environment Heritage Web page Zollverein, which was at the time a coal mine advanced.

 

In June, two new specific exhibitions, “Milestones in Present-day Structure” and “Structure on Stage”, present this year’s winning solutions of the Purple Dot Award: Item Structure, like the Honda e and CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP. All displays have incredible design traits and characterize the Purple Dot winners of 2020.

 

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