Boom box

The square Honda Super-N wants to bring kei car joy (and a fake gearbox) to Britain

- WORDS: OLLIE KEW PHOTOS: TOBY THYER

IT'S SMALL, IT'S LIGHT AND IT'S shamelessly designed to be affordable. The Honda Super-N is everything we're told modern cars can't be. But Honda is rebelling - by bringing the joy of rightsized kei cars to the UK.

Alright, let’s calm down. The Super-N is only a prototype for now. Not a concept: it has mirrors, wipers and seatbelts. It's a real car. We drove it briefly at Honda's Tochigi test track and can report that though it’s not fast, it steers with precision and feels refreshingly microscopic.