Honda has put the Avancier name back on the table, and this time it is wearing a shape nobody expected to see again. A teaser posted on Honda's Asian social media channels shows a wagon-like SUV silhouette, slim lighting, and a rakish tailgate tied to a new hybrid system.
The name belonged to an Accord-based wagon sold only in Japan from 1999 into the early 2000s. Honda is reviving it for a very different kind of buyer. The teaser does not specify a market yet, but regional reporting points to it going up against other large three-row hybrid SUVs.
Honda confirmed one firm detail. The Avancier will run the automaker's new Honda Hybrid system, a name the company is using instead of its familiar e:HEV badge. The teaser also points to a three-row SUV body style rather than a traditional wagon.
Everything past that stays unconfirmed. Honda has not released horsepower, battery size, pricing or a specific on-sale date.
The teaser itself is short on hard specifications. Full details of the new hybrid system are expected sometime this month, Honda says.
The Avancier is not a one-off. Honda has described it as part of a plan to launch 15 next-generation hybrid models equipped with the Honda Hybrid system globally between 2027 and the end of March 2030, backed by a shared hybrid platform rolling out worldwide. That platform reportedly favors lower weight and more rigidity than what Honda currently builds.
Honda has also outlined a newly developed electric all-wheel-drive unit that will pair with that platform in future hybrids.
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