Honda S660

     Honda S660, a twenty first Century adaptation of the brand’s Honda S660 super car, initial seen within the Sixties. the small automobile roadster are shown off at the Yeddo motor show in November 2013, however before you get too excited a couple of Honda roadster revival, we’ve got dangerous news. though the Honda S660 did get green-lighted for series production  has confirmed to automobile the Honda S660 ‘is not destined for Britain.’

     Looking terribly almost like 2011’s electrical EV-STER idea, the Honda S660 swaps batteries for combustion power, and ushers in an indoor not pinched from the set of Star Trek, indicating a step nearer to showroom-ready condition.

What’s the specification of the insufficient Honda S660?

     The Honda S660 name refers to the front-mounted engine’s capacity: it’s a 660cc three-cylinder gasolene powerplant, boosted by a weensy turbocharger and freed from the hybrid nonsense forced upon the slow-selling (and moving) CR-Z machine. The engine is believed to be mated to a CVT automatic gear case, although paddleshifters behind the handwheel permit choice of stepped ‘ratios’, sort of a correct automatic.

     Engine verbal description sounding familiar? The recently-revealedCaterham Seven a hundred {and sixty} uses an identically-sized Suzuki-derived three-pot, that develops 80bhp. The 660cc capability comes concerning from Japan’s miniature ‘Kei-car’ laws, that demand such cars boast no quite 660ccs below their dinky bonnets.

     Honda itself hasn’t branded the Honda S660 as a Kei-car, not like the Beat model launched within the Nineties. Instead, the new idea has been coined associate ‘open-top sports-type mini-vehicle’. thanks to create a fun automobile sound boring, Honda.

What else is Honda delivery to the Yeddo motor show?

     We’ll get our initial cross-check Honda’s sub-CR-V crossover in production-ready trim. The new automobile is Honda  initial compact SUV since the HR-V, and can challenge the big-selling Jewish calendar month Qashqai and Kia Sportage. The ‘Urban SUV Concept’ was shown in style study type at the 2013 urban center motor show, however Yeddo are the assembly variant’s debut – with mercy sporting a less ungainly, however so far unrevealed name.

     As so much as superior Honda square measure involved, it’s all quiet on the so much japanese front. whereas the NSX supercar idea are doing the show-stand pirouette over again, no updates on the Civic Type-R project square measure expected at the Yeddo show. However, you'll click here to access CAR’s spy shots roundup, school scoop and watch a video of the new Civic Type-R on its mission to line a brand new Nurburgring lap record.