You’ve most likely seen a thousand Honda and Acura automobiles tuned with aftermarket efficiency components in your life. However you’ve by no means seen one tuned with real Honda Racing Company (HRC) components. 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 components for buyer use for road, observe, and off-road purposes.”
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The corporate didn’t say which automobiles would get aftermarket packages. However it made the choice after a prototype of an Acura Integra Kind S modified with HRC components generated “robust curiosity” at this 12 months’s Monterey Automobile Week.
We’d anticipate to see Integra and Honda Civic Kind R packages, at the very least. 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 is just not an acronym). Automakers usually deliver outlandish idea automobiles to SEMA that may by no means be supplied 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.