Honda is bringing back authentic parts of its Beat small sports car

Honda Technical Research Industries has announced that some authentic parts of its iconic Beat car will be back in production. The Honda Beat, which went on sale 26 years ago in May 1991, is one of the very few sports cars in a category exclusive to the Japanese market.

At the beginning of the sale, Honda BEAT once and the two other light auto sports car, Mazda, suzuki Autozam AZ - 1 Cappuccino and called "pp.47-53 ABC ト リ オ" (pp.47-53 ABC trio), once caused a sensation at the time of the Japanese car market, even much more different from most of the plain, mainly for short-distance transport demand and the development of lightweight automotive type car, car body is very small, these three items conform to Japan's automotive specifications of the sports car, two of them had a formal overseas output records.

The Engine features the high speed that Honda once prided itself on. A Honda E07A 0.66L inline three-cylinder SoHC 12 valve naturally aspirated Engine is mounted in the middle and rear of the car, which uses the unique MTREC (Multi Throttle Responsive Engine Control) intake system to make the Throttle Responsive almost as fast as a motor.

The maximum power output of the engine directly reaches the upper limit of the "autonomous regulation" of light automaticity, reaching the level of 47kW(64PS)/8,100 RPM, and the maximum torque is 60N·m(6.1kgf·m)/7,000 RPM. The starting point of the engine's red line is 8500rpm, and the fuel break speed is even higher, approaching 10,000rpm. And its actual net engine output, is more than the above nominal value. That output, which drives the Honda Beat, which weighs just 760kg, is not exactly powerful, but it feels light.

Even, this "autonomous regulation" is more or less ambiguous and tacit in Japanese style. For example, the autonomous regulation of mass production vehicles of the registered car type, which was abandoned at the beginning of this century, once had the requirement that the engine output should not be more than 280ps. But senior car clubs and sports cars, in the 1980 s, the latter is universal breakthrough this restriction, even by measuring loss larger horsepower machine, the roller wheel on the premise of no compensation value test, using the instruction specified high octane number gasoline fuel, also often found its wheel horsepower will already broke through 280 ps.

So-called 280 ps regulation is used to and Japan's ministry (now: Japan's transport ministry) between tacit cheat each other a exist -- Japan's ministry of ordinary Japanese people's perception and to prevent the occurrence of vicious power competition between the clubs, once you need to put forward such a JAMA, "autonomic regulation" in order to standardize the behavior of the clubs on the surface, but in fact, no one care about this kind of regulation is to comply with, as long as the clubs with the mass production log on to the car's engine output as 280 ps is ok.

It also brings various overseas fans don't know which made a lot of confusion, make a lot of fans think that once the Japanese sports car with low output can be put at the same time more prominent European and American cars are beating the next - obviously, it is not possible, the Japanese cars from beginning to end the output is not low, unless to join their engines is far lower than the Japanese standards of high octane number gasoline fuel.

And light auto aspects such independent regulation is also the same situation, the related regulation for mass production of light auto engine output shall not be higher than 64 ps, but in fact, each club in the early 1990 s is universality of the mass production of lightweight automotive output higher models in fact beyond this level (such as the Honda BEAT that is mentioned in this article), but so far, the clubs will also be the car's engine output exterior-interior labeled 64 ps in the yuan.

In addition, for the Honda agency, Honda BEAT also has a special meaning: May 15, 1991 held the Honda BEAT presentation, is the Honda technology research industry entrepreneurs and the first generation of President Honda Soichiro's attendance at the last Honda four-wheeled presentation. Not long after that, on August 5 of the same year, Soichiro Honda died of liver insufficiency (liver failure) in the ward of Juntensei Hospital affiliated to the Juntensei University Medical School in Tokyo. He was 84 years old.

Which is at the end of 2011, to commemorate the harga honda beat sale 20th anniversary, Honda has carried on the part of the integrity of the vehicle part limited release, and recently decided to reopen this car again a part of the production of pure reason, let those loyal to near the old owners, can at the time of servicing their vehicles with many convenient point, after all, for the production car for a long time, even in Japan is hard to find all servicing the purity of product, and the requirements of the relevant Japanese city is one of the most stringent in the world, almost harsh to beyond our love for the old car fans imagine, It is simply impossible to pass without maintaining excellent traffic conditions.