Honda enjoys a high reputation in the world. Even in the highly competitive China auto market, Honda can compete head-on with international manufacturers like Toyota. In fact, Honda's business types are very diverse. For example, the lawn mower produced by Honda is very popular in European and American markets, and many portable fuel equipment are also the main sales force. Of course, Honda motorcycles are another desirable product type, and there are still many Honda motorcycles on the market in China until now.
In fact, Honda had already combined motorcycles and cars as early as 40 years ago, because it had not enjoyed such fashionable projects as bicycles at that time, so owners often had to walk some distance to get to the company after arriving at the parking lot. Faced with such a car pain point, Honda's designers used their own brains. At that time, the original Honda city model was equipped with a motorcycle. This model is actually the original Honda Fit factory, and its size is really small.
In order to put the motorcycle in the trunk of the car, the designer really made great efforts to develop a foldable motorcycle. The shape of this motorcycle is very strange. It looks like a square little box, and it is a bit like a folding pistol that I played when I was a child. The seat of the vehicle and the handle of the motorcycle can be folded. After being completely folded, the upper part of the whole motorcycle is almost completely flush, so the whole motorcycle can be easily put into the trunk.
But our common ordinary motorcycles are often heavier. If the weight can't be controlled within a reasonable range, it is difficult for even adults to put a motorcycle in the car. Therefore, Honda designers minimized this motorcycle. The final production version is only 1 185mm in length, and the height is controlled at 9 10mm, even smaller than the folding bicycle we see now. The weight of the production version is finally controlled within 45 kg, which is completely acceptable, even for female drivers.
This car really caused quite a stir at that time, and even many official models in Japan were equipped with this Honda folding motorcycle because it was so convenient to use. However, due to the small size of the whole vehicle, it is only equipped with an air-cooled two-stroke single-cylinder engine, and the final output is only 2.5 horsepower. However, in the actual test process, the top speed can reach 100 km, far exceeding the level of electric two-wheeled bicycles. It can reach the endurance of more than 70 kilometers when it is filled with oil at one time, which can basically meet the needs of urban traffic.
Unfortunately, this small folding motorcycle didn't survive in the end. It was only produced for about three years, and then it went into a state of suspension. Now that there are more convenient bicycles, there is no place for such folding motorcycles, but I have to admire the creativity of Honda designers, who thought of such a wonderful scheme decades ago.
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