Motor Trend - March 1998
 

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$25,000?!?! 2100lbs?!?! HA!!!!

Thanks,

I hadn't remembered reading that.

Joy S2000

Thanks for the posting. This early stuff is great reading, especially when you see how exaggerated it is. Imagine getting "light-alloy body panels over a rigid aluminum sub-structure" plus an "all-aluminum V5" for $25 to $28,000. Wouldn't that have been wonderful! However, I would have been pleased to see it retain the SSX name and have it fall in the Acura family as they were once considering, thus ensuring a higher level of service support.

The V-5 myth surfaces again and in print too ! And so many people on this board say it never existed, only the I-5.

Thanks Palmateer for the post :thumbup: :thumbup:

No no for the Acura thing. That would make the car much more popular to people that don't really appeciate it. The S is a car for enthusiast (sp), and I like it that way.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by StwoK
[B]The V-5 myth surfaces again and in print too !

Sorry, I don't have the date for this article.

Paul Fr

And there is also this information from about 1 1/2 years ago. It's about a V-5 bike engine.


Will Honda Build A V-5 Sportbike Patterned After Its GP Racer?


by Dirck Edge
Sometimes we forget that racing for Honda and other manufacturers is all about selling street bikes . . . lots of street bikes. Next year's MotoGP series will have exotic four-strokes from at least Yamaha and Honda, with others in earlier stages of development.
Two-stroke racing is good racing, but it lacks a direct relationship to street bike technology. Expect manufacturers to pattern street bikes after their GP machines (although the race bikes themselves must be pure prototypes). Ask yourself this. If Valentino Rossi wins the championship next year on a V-5 Honda four-stroke, and television commentators gush about the unique exhaust note every time the 240 horsepower monster flashes by, will Honda put a V-5 engine in a street legal machine for sale to the public? Of course, it will.
Remember, also, that Honda has been developing V-4 technology for years, both in street bikes and race bikes. A V-5 sportbike is a natural for Honda. If its MotoGP race machine succeeds, expect one on your dealer's floor in roughly 2004

[QUOTE]Originally posted by StwoK
[B]Sorry,