Oct 26, 2000 - Honda today announced a new concept in compact MPVs when it unveiled the Honda Stream for the Japanese market.

This all-new vehicle is stylish yet eminently practical with three rows of seats able to carry seven people in comfort.

Europe will get its version of the Stream, which is currently undergoing the final stages of development, as Honda’s answer to the growing MPV market.

Full details of the European version, also to be built in Japan, will be announced when it makes its official European debut at the next Geneva Motor Show in March 2001.

Start of sales in Europe is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2001.

Prices: from £16,395 to £17,995Meet the Stream, Honda's new seven-seat baby MPV, or 'sports activity vehicle'. Already a big hit in Japan, the stylish Stream fits into the Honda range between the new Civic, on which it is based, and the Shuttle. It has arrived at exactly the right time in Japan, because the market there is hot for seven-seaters combining flexibility and image. The third-row bench double-folds, slides and reclines; load up the car with seven people, or use just one or two rows of seats and fill up the load space... you choose. Honda intends the Stream to be the sportiest of compact MPVs, even 'the GTI of people-carriers' and, to fulfil that brief, has fitted it with the new 2.0-litre VTEC engine. It also comes with the 1.7 as used in the Civic, and a choice of manual or sequential-shift transmissions (2.0-litre only). Honda has put together a big Civic - or shrunken Shuttle - that is efficient and well packaged, finished to a high quality and nicely styled. However, its appeal is quite specific, and it may not suit every family's needs. (Source)

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