#hondas660

The Honda S660 Neo Classic! Yes it’s real & Yes it’s only available in Japan to be added to the Honda S660 Kei car #Honda #HondaS660 #InTheKnow #hondalove https://www.instagram.com/p/BnmAecygsud/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n7j1372zctmb

Honda NSX & Honda S660 both on display at the Tokyo Auto Salon in Japan! Photo thanks to @officialhday #Honda #HDay2018 #HondaLove #NSX #HondaS660 #Hday

Honda S660 ❤️ inside Honda HQ in Tokyo Japan #Honda #HondaLove #Hondas660 (at Honda Motor Co. Aoyama)

Liberty Walk Honda S660 found in Japan #Honda #HondaS660 #S660

Honda S660 slammed with lots of body mods! Does every car look better Slammed to the ground?? #Honda #HondaS660

Meet the 2021 Honda S660 Modulo X Version Z 6MT, a lightweight mid-engine roadster built for pure driving fun. With its sporty design, 6-speed manual transmission, and iconic JDM spirit, this compact machine delivers an unforgettable open-road experience.

#HondaS660, you’re such a cutie 💛 (at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWslU8yJXRR/?utm_medium=tumblr

By itself, it doesn’t look so small - but when it’s parked next to something like that towering Vanagon, you realize how tiny the #HondaBeat really is. Its wheelbase is an inch longer than an NA Miata, but its overhangs are almost nonexistent. It measures just 10.8’ (3.3M) long and 4.6’ (1.4M) wide. This triumph of packaging was Honda’s contribution to a set of sporty Kei cars that arrived at the tail end of Japan’s 80s boom times; a group that included the Suzuki Cappuccino or Mazda AZ-1. It was the last car approved by Soichiro Honda himself, and though it was rarely trumpeted, the exterior design came from #Pininfarina. Despite being a mid-engined roadster, the Beat wasn’t specifically meant to be a sports car but a fun lifestyle car for people on Kei budgets. Under the hood, buried behind the passengers, was a 660-cc triple with Honda’s MTREC system (not to be confused with VTEC), an individual throttle body for each cylinder. The free-revving little motor produced 63 hp with no forced induction (turbos were common on Keis at that time). The lack of overhangs and taut, communicative suspension made it a fun car to drive, if not out-and-out fast.  Form followed function on the Beat and to create the exterior, Honda turned to Pininfarina. The Beat was the first mass-production Japanese car styled by the famous house, and the lead designer was @camardellapietro - whose credits included the Ferrari Mythos and work on the F40. The subtle, honest shape belied the car’s tiny proportions, which were a big change from what Pininfarina usually worked on. Camardella also designed the Ferrari 456GT and Peugeot 306 Cabrio, among others, before going to Lancia and Fiat. The #Beat debuted in the spring of 1991 to loads of positive headlines  - including in the U.S., where it would not pass crash tests and therefore was never sold new. Like the other sporty Keis, sales were good for the first 18 months were good but cratered in Japan’s long recession. 2/3rds of Beats were built in the first year, but the car continued in production until 1996. Beats are now legal to import, so they finally arrived in the USA in 2016. A successor (the #HondaS660) debuted in 2015. (at Sonoma Raceway) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLpTSeLFTmj/?igshid=1jpsgewec8ntc