, key tech and design elements also shine a light on where Honda's luxury brand is headed.
Accordingly, instead of a traditional flow-through register, the nose features a dynamic backlit surface that riffs on Acura's trademark diamond-pentagon grille. The flowing body sides display clean surfacing, with the deliberate exception of the blacked-out greenhouse's silver floating D-pillar trim, which stops well short of the body's Double Apex Blue shoulders. Like any concept worth its salt, the Precision EV substitutes camera nacelles for mirrors and foregoes door handles altogether. Wraparound taillights point to an illuminated Acura badge on the hatch, with the Particle-Glitch theme reprised in the outboard lower lighting.
We've seen companies adopt this twinned approach before, but not as holistically. In Instinctive Drive mode, performance cues like red ambient lighting, racing-style instrumentation, and the steering yoke take center stage, while the HVAC system pumps out an invigorating scent that displays"notes of eucalyptus" and"a distant campfire," said Gypsy Modina, team lead for Acura's Color Material Finish department.