While the Tokyo Motor Show will open its doors in a few hours, the Japanese automaker had invited some journalists and editors a sneak preview on the circuit Tochigi technical innovations that Honda will put on the market in some time. The program for this session, there was a new range of engines, a new gearbox, a compact sports and some info about the supercar manufacturer.
Honda has introduced a new range of 3 new supercharged DOHC VTEC engine that will come to replace the medium term block 1.8 L and 1.4 L of the Japanese manufacturer and the late 2.0-liter VTEC. In the future we will find in the Honda petrol range:
- L3 1.0 L Turbo will include advance 15% more torque than the current 1.8 L but also a consumption reduction of about 20%
- L4 1.5L Turbo announces that much better than the current 1.8 L performance and boasts a torque increase of 45% lower fuel consumption by at least 15%. This block is known as the college of atmospheric release under the hood of the recent Jazz / Fit.
- L4 2.0L Turbo announces that for now "only" 280 hp and 400 Nm, but the aim of the manufacturer is still ride horses and fly, running in 2015, the figure of eight minutes on the Nordschleife in the ... Future Civic Type R.
This VTEC Turbo engine block could be associated with a new automated gearbox double clutch 7 or 8 reports. Civic VTEC for future promises to explode the segment and the times, you will have to wait because it should not happen on the market until the second half of 2015.
This gearbox is being finalized and should be present on the new NSX will be presented in Tokyo in its final form and with a whole series of hybrid propulsion. It was also learned that the V6 supercar not cubera 3.5 L as was used previously at Honda. The V6 should forward a displacement of 3.0 L and is associated with three electric motors which will make the new NSX April 1 wheel drive.
there is video Civic Type R:
Source : Honda Youtube.