At the 2025 Shanghai motor show the covers were whipped off the Honda GT, a slinky electric fastback that seems destined only for the Chinese market.
Designed to give a “new sensation of driving pleasure”, the GT has a “low and wide” stance matched with blacked out A-pillars for a visor-like window graphic, a crisp shoulder line, flush-fitting door handles, and frameless windows.
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GAC Honda GT
Compared to the concept shown at last year’s Beijing motor show, few, if any, body panels have been changed, but the bumpers and lights have been tweaked, while the interior is substantially different.
The sporting theme carries over to the cabin where the GT is available with a grippy bucket-like seats, red leather to offset the otherwise black interior, and a steering wheel with flat bottom and top.
And because in 2025 nothing says cutting edge more than a surfeit of screens, the GT has up to six screens. There’s a thin and wide instrumentation display ahead of the driver, a large central touchscreen, a portrait touchscreen next to the gear shifter, a “far-focus display” for the front passenger, and screen in each front door card for the wing mirror cameras.
Following on P7 and S7 crossovers revealed last year, the GT is next production car in Honda’s Ye series of EVs developed specifically for China.
Like P7 and S7, the GT rides on the e:N Architecture W. Honda has yet to announce what will be power the GT, but the P7/S7 twins are available with 200kW single-motor rear-wheel drive and 350kW dual-motor all-wheel drivetrains.
Both P7/S7 drivetrains are matched up to a 89.8kWh battery pack that’s supposed to be good for 620km of range in the all-wheel drive variant, and 650km in the rear-wheel drive. Do take these numbers with a grain or three of salt, as they’re generated under the generous CLTC standard.
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If the GT is offered in rear-wheel drive, it will be the closest thing yet to a rear-wheel drive Honda sedan. The company has resisted adopting rear-wheel drive for its luxury Acura marque, but has offered a few rear-driven vehicles over the years, primarily on supercars (NSX), sports cars (S660, S2000), kei cars (Beat, Vamos), and, recently, EVs (e, P7/S7).
Like most Honda cars sold in China, there will be two versions of the GT — one for each of the automaker’s joint venture partners, Dongfeng and GAC.
The Dongfeng version, pictured here in blue, has an arrow-like head- and tail-light treatment. The latter features a clear plastic garnish with a 3D effect as part of the full-width tail-lights.
GAC’s iteration, seen here in red, has a set of crab claw-shaped headlights, and a thinner strip of tail-lights, also with a crab claw-shaped lighting graphic. As far as we can tell, there are no sheetmetal differences between the GAC and Dongfeng models.
Most Chinese market Hondas — such as the Civic/Integra, CR-V/Breeze, Accord/Inspire, Fit/Life, and Odyssey/Elysion — have different nameplates, as well as styling changes, for their GAC and Dongfeng variants, but the two production partners will use the GT name for the electric fastback.
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