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The first Honda City (AA for sedans, VF for vans and FA for the wider Turbo II and Cabriolets) was introduced in November 1981 with the innovative "Tallboy" design; of unusual height it enabled four adults to fit comfortably in the very short City (under 3.4 m or 11.2 ft). [1]
The City Turbo was the brainchild of Hirotoshi Honda, son of Honda founder Soichiro Honda as well as founder and owner of Mugen. In the early 1980s, Mugen was a small tuning company that was beginning to garner a reputation producing performance parts for motorcycles and automobiles, but had yet to gain recognition outside of racing circles.
Mugen supplied Honda-derived engines to the Jordan Formula One team between 1998 and 2000. In 1991 Mugen prepared Honda V10 engines for Tyrrell (based on engines used by McLaren in 1989 and 1990), but the following year these engines were renamed Mugen MF351H and were transferred to the Footwork team, with drivers Aguri Suzuki and Michele Alboreto.
Mugen is a longtime Honda tuner and motorsports company. Just 1000 of these specially tuned Civic Si sedans were built. With only 18,000 miles, this example is as close as you're likely to find to ...
Honda Malaysia Racing Team is an auto racing team from Malaysia establish in 2003 by Honda Malaysia to compete in Merdeka Millennium Endurance race, currently competing in the Sepang 1000 km. Between year 2003 to 2007, the team received technical guidance from Mugen Motorsports [ 1 ] and since 2008 the team became an independent Malaysian team ...
The Mugen MF308 is a naturally aspirated, petrol-powered, 3.0 L (180 cu in), V8 racing engine, designed, developed, and built by Mugen Motorsports, for Formula 3000 racing categories, between 1988 and 2005. It produced between 490–500 hp (370–370 kW) over its lifetime.
Hirotoshi Honda is a board member of MG Estate, which has since been renamed GE Seirijigyosha. Mugen reported sales of about ¥ 6.8 billion for the financial year to October 2001. Honda Motor has pulled its capital from Mugen but still teams with the firm to participate in auto races. [4]
DRB-HICOM Berhad (MYX: 1619) is one of Malaysia's leading corporations, involved in the automotive manufacturing, assembly and distribution industry through its involvement in the passenger car and four wheel drive vehicle market segment, the national truck project and the national motorcycle project.