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newVideoPlayer("/87_CRX_JDM_476.flv", 506, 423,""); While the American version of the Honda CRX could circle the globe in five seconds flat , late-80s robots were tearing up their prefectures in the Cyber Sports CR-X. Featuring a "1500 Hyper 16 Valve" engine and "Extra Window," the Cyber-Sports CR-X presented a terrifyingly accurate vision of the future. Looks like Jeff Beck cashed in with Honda, since there's at least one other CRX ad using his song.
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newVideoPlayer("/86_CRX_Si_476.flv", 506, 423,""); The mid-80s Kleine GTI was lots of fun, but those willing to sacrifice the back seat and go Japanese instead of German could get an extra 18 horses in a lighter chassis. We're talking about the first-gen CRX Si, and this ad shows that it could circumnavigate the globe in a mere five seconds.
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newVideoPlayer("/Honda_1300_JDM_476.flv", 506, 423,""); The Coupe 9 version of the Honda 1300 now resides in the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage (as well as in Junkman's garage ), but the standard 1300 sedan was a pretty interesting car as well. You got an air-cooled engine with four carbs and dry-sump oil system sending 100 horses to the front wheels and styling that must have made Soichiro proud (though maybe he wasn't so proud of this headache-inducing TV ad).
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newVideoPlayer("78_Honda_Civic_Hatch_476.flv", 494, 410,""); No car illustrates the concept of Long Term Model Bloat better than the Civic (for a good example of Short Term Model Bloat, compare the 1970 Mercury Cougar with the 1974 version). Here's Honda boasting about the ability of the '78 Civic hatch's ability to swallow four shopping bags. The '78 Civic hatchback weighed 1,708 pounds... about 1,000 pounds less than the '08 Civic sedan .
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newVideoPlayer("78_Honda_Leaded_476.flv", 463, 387,""); Thanks to the magic of the CVCC engine , Honda was able to meet emission requirements for '78 without using a catalytic converter. Oh, sure, cats were installed and the CVCC's smog gear got insanely complicated a few years later, but in 1978 you could experience the Joy of Lead in your new Honda.
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It's funny how the acronym VTEC gets thrown around these days by so many people who clearly wouldn't know a camshaft from cannelloni; no doubt the word veetek will be a universal term for "really cool" in another 50 years, uttered by residents of the...
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Since the DOTS car today was a Honda , it seems like a good time to look at some Japanese-market ads for a somewhat more expensive Honda model (OK, the NSX was sold as an Acura on these shores). The Very Serious Narrator cracks us up, though we do like...
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