Honda N360
Honda N360
The Honda N600 is a small car the car manufacturer Honda, which classified on the N360 with a smaller engine and in Japan as a K -Car, based. After the S800 was the N360, the N600 second and the third vehicle of HONDA in Germany.
History
The N360 ( N360 type code and the product code 567 ) was from 1966 to 1969 built and sold in 1967 in Germany. The front-wheel drive two-door sedan had a ³ airstream cooled two -cylinder engine with 354 cm and 20 kW. From him the TN360 ( TN360 type code and the product code 512) was derived as a pickup truck but was driven by 22 kW at 8000 min-1 only in Japan. In France and Belgium, there was the N400 ( N400 type code and the product code 593) 401 cc and 21 kW, always in "deluxe" equipment ( bumper horns, crown moldings, faux wood dashboard and otherwise patterned seats). The N500 there was never to buy, he was just a pre-production model of the N600. He should make around 29 kW with 497.1 cc. A kind of "combined " version, the LN360 (type code LN360 and the product code 584 ) as an extension was built. The LN360M was a "luxury model " with more accessories, including radio (MW / LW ) with 5 -channel preset buttons installed in the center of the dashboard and the telescopic antenna in the left B-pillar. Driver and front passenger comfort seats as reclining seats foldable and better padded linings. Backing (inside vertical horizontal) for the rear side windows ( sliding window ). Mud flaps on the rear wheels. A particular M emblem was always on the lower part of the two-part tailgate and on the two front wings. The extra cost was 40,000 yen, it had a price advantage 15.170 yen. By 1970, went out of the N360 the Honda Z ( type code Z360 and the product code 605) and 1971 Honda Life out. From Life there was by the 2 - and 4 -door also has a Van ( Stepvan ) and a pickup truck. However, these cars were no longer the way to Germany, because in the meantime the Honda Civic was the development and came in 1972 to the European market.
The N600 ( N600 type code and the product code 568 ) was offered 1967-1973 as a front-wheel drive two-door sedan and as a big brother of the N360. He had a fahrtwind-/gebläsegekühlten two-cylinder in-line engine that was offered to approximately 1970 31 kW. In Japan, the N600 E was sold with 43 hp. Worldwide, there have been many different versions of this type of car, such as the N600 Touring / G / GT / GTL / E / Town and AT ( automatic). From N600 G in Germany there were only 1000 pieces and they were all yellow. This was in addition a holzfunierten dashboard tachometer, a separate fuel gauge and a glove box lid. In addition there was leather steering wheel, sport rims, front disc brakes. In parallel, the car was also offered as a coupe under the name Honda Z (USA and Hawaii). From about 1970, the N600 from insurance and exhaust reasons was offered with only 28 kW. The U.S. version has a revised camshaft and a power of 26 kW. The modified front axle was now provided with a stabilizer (like the Z600 ). In the restricted version in Germany for owners of the old driving license for category 4, a cylinder was shut down, but mostly the engine capacity was reduced by decreasing the bore (smaller cylinder liners ) to 250 cc or offset by shortening the stroke ( crank pin in the crankshaft and compressed Rods ). The engine was then fitted with cylinder and cylinder head of the N360.
In Germany, there should be only about 50 roadworthy N600, N360 from even less.
Prototype
The Honda N800 prototype, with a weaker engine of the S800, was unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 1965 as a possible sedan, but was not produced in this form.