Honda’s FIA World Touring Car Championship will be the 5-door hatchback you see above, developed with Mugen and J.A.S. Motorsport, but what’s under the engine hood is more interesting – a Honda R&D developed bespoke 1.6 liter engine that’s not found in any current production Honda car!
Honda’s two car WTCC entry will be powered by a 1.6 liter 4 cylinder direct injection turbo engine, developed in accordance with FIA’s Super 2000 regulations. The cars will be managed by J.A.S. Motorsport, and will be entered in every race in the 2013 season.
A typical race covers between 50km to 60km in distance, and the full racing season covers 12 racing weekends, with 2 races per weekend. All vehicles who compete in the championship are based on mass production cars with more than than 4 seats.
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It’s a surprise that Honda developed turbo engine, They are famous of naturally aspirated engines. If I recall the turbo engine only used in Formula-1 back in 1985, with Williams Honda Turbo, CMIIW
Honda has some k-cars with turbos in Japan such as honda life
Historically speaking, Honda was very good in designing and producing turbocharged race engines as used in multi race & championship winning 1980s Honda F1 campaign. But strangely, Honda never had any interest in producing turbo engines for road cars..
Super good looking!!!
Now this is called a Honda!!!
good 1
nice 1
ini la bezanya syarikat kecik (proton) ngan syarikat besar.
proton masuk racing guna enjin renault, honda nak masuk racing terus buat enjin.
boss honda: 6 bulan lagi kita masuk rally. aku nak korang buat enjin. baik punya ye.
enginneer: baik boss :)
this is exactly wat Soichiro Honda told his team when he wanted to enter F1,n they din even noe wat F1 was at that time
hahahaha,….finally honda realised that its high revving ivtec engined are just plain gutless/torqueless/weak at low rev esp for day to day use. Who the heck want to drive all day long in 2nd gear at 5,000rpm just to get decent power?…
It’s for WTCC race use, i doubt it is a turbo for road use. Turbo probably kicks in at 3.5k rpm or more. Which in race is a great HP enchancer, in roads super laggy.
Let’s wait for official data.