The final time we heard something about Honda’s e:NP2 and e:NS2, the previous was collaborating in a type of stunts standard within the Seventies the place the automaker sees how many individuals it could actually cram inside. However now we’ve received some way more severe and significant intel because of the benevolent folks at China’s Ministry of Trade and Data Expertise.

To refresh your reminiscence, the SUV duo have been developed for the Chinese language market and are basically the identical automotive. However they’ll be offered by each Honda’s joint-venture with GAC and by Donfeng, with every division getting its personal bespoke styling cues and making its personal model.

So Donfeng’s NS2 will get vertically-mounted boomerang-shaped DRLs forward of every entrance wheel and a full-width rear mild bar plus that falls in the direction of the bottom at all sides and ‘Honda’ lettering on the trunk panel.

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The NP2, alternatively, has headlights with a horizontally organized DRLs blades under and a black panel between the 2 lamp items. The back lights get an analogous remedy and on this case the ‘Honda’ lettering is raised to the black panel between the lamps. One design factor widespread to each variations is the broad horizontal bars on the entrance and rear decrease bumpers that makes them seem like hi-tech air-con items.

The MIIT filings inform us that each automobiles trip on the identical 2,735 mm (107.7 inches) wheelbase, and measure 1,840 mm (72.4 inches) vast and 1,570 mm (61.8 inches) tall, whereas simply 1 mm (0.04 inches) separates the NS2 from the longer NP2. The spec sheet additionally reveals that the pair every will get a single motor producing 201 hp (150 kW/204 PS), simply because the ideas promised, plus a 68.8 kWh battery.

The sloping rear roofline that options on each fashions means they’re extra crossovers than correct SUVs, and whereas that rear window angle does give them a sporty look, Honda’s human-trafficking stunt we wrote about final time got down to show that it may nonetheless be sensible. Six gymnasts folded themselves contained in the NP2’s cargo bay as soon as the rear seat had been folded down.

The truth that the MIIT has printed photos and information means the official launch should be very shut and Chinese language patrons will be capable to get their arms on the crossovers later this yr. They’re not more likely to make it to America, particularly with the present monetary penalties place on Chinese language-built EVs, however do you assume they might promote nicely within the West?