You’ve most likely seen a thousand Honda and Acura automobiles 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 provide genuine efficiency elements for buyer use for avenue, observe, and off-road functions.”
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The corporate didn’t say which automobiles would get aftermarket packages. But it surely made the choice after a prototype of an Acura Integra Kind S modified with HRC elements generated “sturdy curiosity” at this 12 months’s Monterey Automobile Week.
We’d anticipate to see Integra and Honda Civic Kind R packages, no 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 Tools Producer’s Affiliation, SEMA now says its identify just isn’t an acronym). Automakers sometimes carry outlandish idea automobiles to SEMA that can 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.
