You’ve in all probability seen a thousand Honda and Acura vehicles tuned with aftermarket efficiency elements in your life. However you’ve by no means seen one tuned with real Honda Racing Company (HRC) elements. Quickly, you’ll.
Honda introduced this week that its North American racing arm, famed for its IndyCar presence, will “create a brand new enterprise to supply genuine efficiency elements for buyer use for road, monitor, and off-road functions.”
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The corporate didn’t say which vehicles would get aftermarket packages. Nevertheless it made the choice after a prototype of an Acura Integra Sort S modified with HRC elements generated “sturdy curiosity” at this yr’s Monterey Automobile Week.
We’d anticipate to see Integra and Honda Civic Sort R packages, not less than. However HRC-branded off-road gear for the model’s rising lineup of TrailSport fashions appears logical, too.
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The announcement comes forward of subsequent week’s SEMA present (previously the Specialty Gear Producer’s Affiliation, SEMA now says its title will not be an acronym). Automakers sometimes carry outlandish idea automobiles to SEMA that may by no means be provided on the market.
Honda plans a full lineup of HRC fashions on the present, together with a Ridgeline-based Baja racer and a Pilot HRC prototype.
