The class then went through a period of ever increasing sophistication, with an automatic transmission appearing in the Honda N360 in August 1968, with front disc brakes becoming available on a number of sporting kei cars, beginning with the Honda Z GS of January 1970.

The tank had Honda ’ s Gold Wing decal for this years model, it was previously red with just a plain “ HONDA ” The exhaust muffler too was slightly different in shape and the speedometer cable stay, which protruded rearward from the left fork, had the very tip bent totally back in on itself facing fully back toward the motor ( on the ‘ A ’ model ) as opposed to being just slightly folded in part way on the ‘ Z ’.

Honda added the ‘ R ’ to represent the Pro-Link which distinguishes it from the twin shock models of the previous two years, however, they still kept the letter ’ s of the alphabet to be consistent with the years made, e. g.: ‘ Z ’ for 1979, ‘ A ’ for 1980, ‘ B ’ for 1981 etc.

With the abandonment of turbocharging it was clear that the venerable DFV / Y / Z design was nowhere near being competitive with far newer offerings from Honda, Renault and Ferrari.

A version producing at 8, 000 rpm was installed in the Honda Life, while the Honda Z and the Honda Life Touring ( introduced in May 1972 ) received a twin-carb model with at a heady 9, 000 rpm.

* 1972. 11-1974 Honda Z

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Honda Z is the name of a two-door hatchback microcar automobile made by the Honda Motor Company, first from 1970 until 1974 and again between 1998 and 2003.

The two-door Honda Z was a kei car / city car designed and built by Honda sold from 1970 to 1974.

A Honda Z was prominently featured in the Australian film Malcolm as a get-away car that split into two.

Launched on October 9, 1998 the PA1 Honda Z was manufactured for Honda by Yachiyo Industry Co, a Honda subsidiary manufacturing light trucks.

The basic structure of the Z, including its midship-mounted engine placement and 4WD drivetrain was shared with its Honda Acty sibling.

The Z was only ever available with a four-speed automatic transmission, the same that was used on the EF Honda Civics.

While the Honda Capa was the first car in the " J-Mover " series, the third generation Life and new Honda Z made up the " K-Mover " series.

Industry observers, however, speculated that the most important motivation was that a name change would help Nissan market stocks and bonds in the U. S. They also presumed substantial ego involvement, since the absence of the Nissan name in the U. S. surely rankled Nissan executives who had seen Toyota and Honda become household words.

The same year, Ishirō Honda released the anti-nuclear horror film Gojira, which was translated in the West as Godzilla.

Ishirô Honda was not a fan of the dumbing down of the monsters.

During pre-production, Ishirō Honda had toyed with the idea of using Willis O ' Brien's stop motion technique instead of the suitmation process used in the first two Godzilla films, but budgetary concerns prevented him from using the process, and the more cost efficient suitmation was used instead.

The film was also the last to be produced by the four " Godzilla fathers ", with Ishirō Honda directing, Eiji Tsuburaya supervising the special effects ( with Sadamasa Arikawa actually directing ), Tomoyuki Tanaka producing, and Akira Ifukube handling the film's score.

This was the last Godzilla film directed by Ishirō Honda.

In his Nobel Prize lecture, he remarked that the success didn't make up for his girlfriend breaking up with him shortly before: " I was sagging as I walked out to my little silver Honda Civic.

In 1991, he was paired with Wayne Gardner on a Honda RVF750 superbike and won the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race.

In 1993 he struggled with the healing of his leg and the ability to race the Honda at elite level, stating later that in that year it was all he could do to just keep his ride at Honda.

Despite up to eight rivals on non factory HRC Honda motorcycles Doohan's margin of superiority over them was such that in many races Doohan would build a comfortable lead and then ride well within his limits to cruise to victory.

Between 1994 and 1998 the bike was said not to have had many changes, with Honda engineers reportedly becoming frustrated at Doohan's reluctance to try new innovations such as electronic shifting ( it was only when Rossi came to Honda in 1999 that Honda engineers had their head with Rossi willing to try more innovations ).

This approach was also used, albeit on a much smaller implementation, as the Honda Life StepVan in 1974.

During her career, Ono has collaborated with a diverse group of artists and musicians including John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Cornelius ( Keigo Oyamada, Naoki Shimizu and Yoko Araki ), Frank Zappa, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Jim Keltner, Earl Slick, Peaches, John Cage, David Tudor, George Maciunas, Ornette Coleman, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Jonas Mekas, Fred DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Yo La Tengo, and Andy Warhol ( in 1987 Ono was one of the speakers at Warhol's funeral ).

As part of the " handover ", Patrese tested a Honda RA107 at Jerez on 9 September ( Barrichello was driving for Honda at the time ).

The Hyundai Elantra was Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle among 19 other compacts and small family cars, beating out the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius.

This was an attempt to take back market sectors that were at the time increasingly being taken by Japanese manufacturers such as Honda and Yamaha.

* Automatic shoulder and lap belts — This system was mainly used in General Motors vehicles, though it was also used on some Honda Civic hatchbacks and Nissan Sentra coupés.

Being designed as the successor of the Honda Quint, the Integra is closely related to the Civic, although it featured a small list of key upgrades over its smaller stablemate to help merit a price increase over the CRX Si, which was otherwise the sportiest subcompact vehicle being offered by Honda Verno ; enlarged 4-wheel disc brakes replaced the small front-disc / rear-drum setup used by the Civic and CRX, suspension calibration was re-worked, better tires were used and a 113-hp DOHC fuel-injected 16-valve engine was used in place of the SOHC unit from the CRX Si.

The Honda Civic is a line of subcompact and subsequently compact cars made and manufactured by Honda.

The bodystyle of a flat roof hatchback was also used on the third generation Honda Civic subcompact, the second generation Honda City supermini and the first generation Honda Today kei car.

The Honda Fit or Honda Jazz is a five-door hatchback subcompact manufactured by Honda, first introduced in June 2001 and now in its second generation.

The first generation Honda City was a subcompact car manufactured by the Japanese manufacturer Honda from 1981.

The styling reflects a corporate decision to enact a shared appearance with the first generation Honda Today kei car, the internationally strong seller, third generation subcompact Honda Civic, and the third generation compact Honda Accord AeroDeck.

This City is still a subcompact slotting beneath the Honda Civic, but a four-door sedan model instead for developing markets in Asia, and was built in Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and India.

Because of consumer demand for fuel-efficient cars during the late-2000s, sales of subcompact cars made it the fastest growing market category in the U. S., numerous models of subcompacts are sold in North America, including the Chevrolet Sonic, Ford Fiesta, Honda Fit, Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio, Mazda 2, Nissan Versa, Scion xD, Suzuki Swift, and Toyota Yaris.

The Honda Ballade was a subcompact automobile built by Honda of Japan.

The Versa is marketed as a subcompact, competing against the Honda Fit, Hyundai Accent and Toyota Yaris.

Meanwhile, the Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sentra and the Honda Civic, three of the world's best selling vehicles, started as subcompact econoboxes but are now on the high-end of the compact size line.

The flat roof hatchback design appearance was shared with the incrementally larger supermini Honda City, the subcompact Honda Civic, and the compact Honda Accord AeroDeck.