While most of the popular aftermarket manufacturers in Japan are welcoming the hybrid craze with open arms, Spoon Sports has been quiet as of late. This can mostly be attributed to the fact that Spoon focuses and specializes with the Honda platform, and quite honestly, Honda hasn’t had an attractive enough hybrid platform in the recent years. But this is all about to change, with the CR-Z gaining a lot of momentum as the new “hot-hatch” appealing to passionate Honda aficionados worldwide. Read the full article HERE.
New season means new bikes, new livery, new excitement. Thats what were unveiled when MotoGP teams touchdown at Sepang International Circuit last February. They came to test their new machine ahead of 2010 season that will kick off in April.
Im sure by now, you’ve seen this truck in Super Street or in pictures from SEMA, here is a short behind the scenes video of it being cut in half, extended and put back together. Its amazing what can be built in such a short amount of time.
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This Friday’s flush vehicle is a Honda S2000. I really don’t know much about this car. I’ve seen it at a few events and meets but I’ve never actually seen the owner anywhere near the car. It’s clean, low and has a sick set of wheels with a rad offset.
Looks like THR is coming back out with a new Honda Element for the 2010 Formula D Series. Seeing this makes me want a Element myself but I doubt I would ever make it into a drift car though.
So after checking out the specs on the new CR-Z, I’m as disappointed as you are about what should have been a true successor to the CRX. The good people at Jalopnik agree:
…it’s a perfect example of product Fail, and on a personal level, it’s one of the greatest vehicular disappointments in recent memory. How can I say this without having driven it? Easy: I can read a press release, and I own a 1988 Honda CRX Si. The Si is a 2000-pound, 100-hp wonder, a manic, front-wheel-drive snotrocket that can crank out 35 mpg and make any winding road its bitch. The CR-Z is a wildly different machine. It weighs 2800 pounds. It’s rated for 37 mpg on the highway, which seems impressive until you remember just how tiny it is. And while its 1.5-liter hybrid four can be mated to a six-speed manual, it also makes just 122 hp.
Sigh…maybe Japan will get a Type-R version that will be exactly what the US wish that it got.
Doing wheelies on a Ruckus isn’t the hardest thing to do, but doing it on one thats stretched out and while still sitting, well thats another story. After getting their highly modified Ruckus’ put back together, our homies from the bay area decided to make this little video.
