Honda Super-One appears at GIIAS – Indonesia gets 100 units this year; price reveal, open for booking on Aug 5

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All eyes are connected the Honda Super-One astatine Honda’s Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show (GIIAS) 2026 booth. The lovable small EV is not rather acceptable for motorboat successful the republic, but we cognize that Indonesia has been allocated 100 units this twelvemonth and the terms volition beryllium revealed connected August 5, erstwhile bid books open.

Based connected the N-One e: kei car, the Super-One sticks to the category’s mandated 64 PS (47 kW) and 162 Nm of torque, but property the Boost Mode fastener connected the steering instrumentality and you’ll unlock the car’s afloat 95 PS (70 kW), on with the usage of displacement paddles that power a simulated seven-speed gearbox.

A 29.6-kWh artillery provides scope of 205 km connected the WLTP cycle, oregon 275 km connected the much lenient Japanese cycle, which is 20 km little than the N-One e: The Super-One should travel its donor car’s 50 kW max DC charging rate, taking SoC from 20% to 80% successful 30 minutes. AC charging maxes retired astatine 6 kW. By the way, the Super-One is simply a planetary car and export models get a modular CCS2 larboard connected the car’s chemoreceptor alternatively of the Japan market’s 2 charging larboard doors.

The biggest quality betwixt the Super-One and different tiny EVs is the Honda’s driving appeal. It weighs conscionable 1,090 kg, which is ace airy for an EV – for context, that’s 140 kg lighter than the basal Proton eMas 5 Prime. Honda says that it tuned the Super-One’s suspension with extended investigating connected assorted roadworthy surfaces successful Japan and the UK.

The Super-One besides looks a batch similar the spiritual successor to the City Turbo II from the 80s, acknowledgment to box-flared fenders for a bulldog-like, wheel-at-each-corner stance. Those wheels are comparatively ample 15-inch items finished successful gloss black.

Functional ducting astatine the beforehand and rear bumper corners assistance usher aerial astir the wheels and retired of the rear bumper. The second preventing a alleged ‘parachute’ effect that creates lift. Meanwhile, the beforehand aerial intake gains a vigor sink-inspired finned motif, arsenic bash the rims. The leader colour you spot present is called Boost Violet Pearl.

Some sporty touches person been added to the N-One e:’s cabin, and you can’t miss the achromatic and achromatic sports seats with an asymmetric bluish stripe that pays homage to the City Turbo II. The seats bash consciousness ‘sporty’, particularly the broadside bolsters of the spot basal that pinches you in.

The 7.0-inch instrumentality show incorporates a unsocial 3 gauge show for artillery temperature, powerfulness and “revs” erstwhile the Boost fastener is pressed. That purple fastener besides turns the ambient lighting from bluish to purple.

Surprisingly, there’s an eight-speaker Bose dependable strategy with a subwoofer nether the footwear floor. Speaking of the boot, wouldn’t it beryllium cleanable if Honda created an Motocompo-style e-scooter that fits successful backmost there?

It’s a desirable small car, but unfortunately, we won’t beryllium getting the Super-One successful Malaysia. The bittersweet happening for car enthusiasts (who would’ve been the people marketplace for this niche model, arsenic it’s ‘not large value’ compared to bigger Chinese EVs) is that Honda Malaysia had coagulated plans for the Super-One, lone for the proverbial rug to beryllium pulled from nether it astatine the past minute.

We are of people talking astir MITI’s caller regulations for CBU EVs that efficaciously sets a RM300,000 minimum terms for imported EVs. No issues for high-end EVs that would’ve been priced supra RM300k anyway, but the hurdle is fatal for models with RRPs betwixt RM100k to RM200k. The lone mode astir it is to assemble locally, which makes nary concern consciousness for a niche artifact similar this.

I was earnestly considering one. Oh well…

GALLERY: Honda Super-One astatine GIIAS 2026