Honda Could Be Teaming Up with an Awesomely Unexpected Source to Build a New Sports Car

In one of the most unexpected and unlikely pairings, Honda and Aston Martin may be joining forces to produce cars in the near future. Both Road & Track and Australia’s Drive report that the two automakers will team up in Formula One for the 2026 season.

What’s more, the motorsports partnership could result in some new co-developed vehicles. Now, let’s break that down for a second: Honda and Aston Martin could work together to build road cars.

What a time to be alive.

Honda-powered Aston Martin F1 cars

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At a recent press event featuring Honda and Aston Martin’s Aramco Formula One team, executives shook hands over their newfound agreement to collaborate in the motorsports league. The project involves Honda producing engines for Aston Martin’s next generation of Formula One cars.

“Our current plan is obviously our very ambitious Formula One works, team project,” said Aston’s Formula One executive chairman, Lawrence Stroll. “It’s safe to say that that is the beginning of our relationship.”

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In the past, such instances of motorsports partnerships have been based on technological joint ventures, which often result in collaborations on production vehicles.

“We actually at this point have not discussed a production car or hypercar or a supercar together” Stroll continued. “There is absolutely no reason why we can’t do so going forward.”

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“I tell you, Aston Martin would be very open to the idea based on this partnership,” said Stroll. “I’m sure Mibe-san might be excited about the idea. So let’s just say all doors are open to explore the greatest way to have the best partnership we can.”

A new car from both is “entirely possible”

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Honda’s President, Toshihiro Mibe also agreed teaming up to make a car is “entirely possible.”

“On the subject of any mass production projects, there are no talks,” Mibe-san said. “But the racing activities between the two — the more successful this is going to be, there will be value to applying what we learned from that to production cars.”

“So I don’t know at what time, but if there is a possibility to expanding our business, as mentioned, that we can continue discussing, and I will be doing so with Lawrence. It is entirely possible,” Mibe-san concluded.

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This isn’t the first time Aston Martin joined forces with another automaker in motorsports. Most recently, the British sports car manufacturer worked with Mercedes-AMG for the past five Formula One seasons.

The partnership also resulted in some of Aston’s latest road cars being powered by AMG’s turbocharged V8 engines.

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Honda also has a history of teaming up with some high-end automakers. In the late 1980s and early 1990s — as well as from 2015 to 2017 — Honda worked with McLaren in Formula One.

Whatever comes from the newfound partnership between Honda and Aston Martin, we just hope it doesn’t result in a car similar to the Toyota iQ-based Aston Martin Cygnet.

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