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Honda F1 2008
Posted on January 29, 2008, by Darren, under Cars, Honda, Technology.
Honda F1 have just announced their 2008 car (right). The team are punting this as a vast improvement on last years car, which lets be honest, isn’t a difficult thing to pull off.
With Ross Brawn (ex Ferrari) now in charge as team principle things could be on the up this season, although they’ve got quite a challenge to pull themselves back to where they were in 2006 so best not to hope for too much straight out of the box in Melbourne in a few months time.
Check out the full story – Honda World | Honda F1 Racing
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New 2008 Accord
Posted on January 23, 2008, by Darren, under Cars, Honda, Technology.
Honda have let out a few sneak peaks of the revised Accord (Euro), due mid-2008.
Click the image (right) for a larger version.
View the rest of the image at Honda World.
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Type R Diesel?
Posted on October 31, 2007, by Darren, under Cars, Honda, Technology.
Looks like the Honda Civic Type R could be in line for the Japanese manufacturers’ 2.2-liter diesel engine within the next few years, according to Autocar.
With the oil burner churning out 320 lb/ft of torque in comparison to 142 in the current 2.0-liter petrol spec car, the diesel could (read: should) be significantly faster both top-end and through the power bands.
Powerful, stupidly fast and economical?
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Honda CR-Z
Posted on October 9, 2007, by Darren, under Cars, World/Web News.
Coming soon to the Tokyo Auto Show is the new Honda CR-Z concept car.
Based loosely on the CR-X from the early ’80s, the car is a bang up-to-date vision of Hondas’ vision of its next generation of cars.
I’m not too sure of the ‘guppy-mouth’ grill – it looks a bit too Peugeot 407-esque, but it is only a concept.
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New HR-V?
Posted on January 5, 2007, by Darren, under Cars, Technology.
Spy pics are currently doing the rounds on a possible new Honda HR-V replacement for 2008-2009 (click image to enlarge).
There is a lot of spin around the vehicle at the moment, mainly on whether it is in fact a JDM at all (lots of poorly informed people are touting it as a Ford due to ‘it being parked next to a Land Rover Discovery 3!) – but there are many indicators to say that is could be the new replacement for the HR-V.
It’s said to be longer than the original HR-V (490mm longer), but smaller than the recently updated CR-V. A 7-seat configuration is also being touted – which would be a huge improvement on the poor 4-seat layout on the old model.
Styling cues on the car also point to Honda, take for example the front grill – this configuration has recently been seen on the Stepvan Concept and Mobilio Spike concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Other cues include the front window/B-Pillar being very simiar to the Element (sources say that the Element is not yet ready for a major redesign so this rules that model out).
Whatever comes of it – I doubt it would be called the HR-V anyway.
Update: TheHollywoodExtra is saying the car IS a Honda and that it WON’T be called HR-V, but rather the Honda Crossover. This could mean that the second image above is a concept for the new Stream model.
