Honda Beat

The Honda Beat is a by Japanese car manufacturer Honda built from May 1991 to February 1996 roadster kei car class. He was only available in Japan.

The Honda Beat is equipped with a 656 cc big three -cylinder gasoline engine, which is brought by technology MTREC to 64 hp at 7800 min -1. The motor is disposed in front of the rear axle and its force is transmitted to the rear axle. With the mid-engine and rear-wheel drive of the Honda Beat has two important for the handling features that are usually found together only in high-powered sports car. He was only available with a manual transmission.

The Honda Beat was so popular in Japan in the early 1990s because he was the first roadster on a qualifying K- Car class along with the Suzuki Cappuccino. A total of 33,600 vehicles were produced. Mid -1990s, declined the sales figures of this vehicle class strong again so that they disappeared from the market. Only in 2003, this concept was taken up by Daihatsu the Daihatsu Copen again.

The end of 2013 a new edition of the Honda Beat is scheduled on platform base of the Honda CR -Z. To drive a new generation of petrol engines should be used with either 1.3 liters or 1.5 liters.

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