For 2012, only a handful of LMPs are being entered, with almost all of them being powered by Japanese manufacturers ( Nissan, Honda, etc .).

Honda took the idea even further, producing the championship-winning RC211V, powered by a V-5 engine.

* The Honda U3-X looks like a self-balancing unicycle, but balances on a powered Omni wheel rather than on a single wheel

In 2000 the new Honda powered BAR did show a significant improvement.

The following season, Jordan was powered by Honda and proved capable of race wins when Schumacher followed team mate Damon Hill to second place in the rain-soaked Belgian Grand Prix.

At the first event, the United States Grand Prix at Phoenix, he was a sensation, leading for 25 laps in front of Ayrton Senna with a car powered by a customer Ford V8 considered as vastly inferior to the V10 Honda in Senna's McLaren, and also re-passing Senna after the Brazilian had first overtaken for the lead.

This generation saw Honda introduce their first Civic Hybrid, powered by a 1. 3-litre engine.

Honda's Eco Assist technology is added to most models, and become the first gasoline-only powered Honda to employ such technology in North America.

Initial planning done by Honda had for what would become the Accord was for it to be a sporty competitor in the pony car market, at roughly the size of a contemporary Ford Mustang powered by a six-cylinder engine.

The VFR was used as Honda's homologation racing platform in the 1980s, however the introduction of lighter inline-four powered competitors in the 1990s prompted Honda to transition the VFR into a mid-sized sport touring bike, a category which the VFR became the de-facto benchmark.

A competition version of the Mega Club with a tubeframe chassis raced in the Andros Trophy in the early 1990, but powered by Ford and Honda engines.

The Honda Magna was a cruiser motorcycle made from 1982 to 1988 and 1994 to 2003 and powered by Honda's V4 engine taken from the VF / VFR.

Brazilian Formula One World Champion Ayrton Senna, for whom Honda had powered all three of his world championship-winning Formula One race cars before his death in 1994, was considered Honda's main innovator in convincing the company to stiffen the NSX chassis further after testing the car at Honda's Suzuka GP circuit in Japan.

The manual transmission version, due to its Lean burn, got a ULEV ), one model of the 2000 Honda Accord ( special SULEV version of the EX 4-cylinder model, available in California ) and the Natural Gas powered Honda Civic GX.

In December 2007, American Honda CEO, Tetsuo Iwamura, confirmed a new supercar powered by a V10 engine would make its introduction to the market by 2010.

* 125 cc Gearbox-most often powered by 125 cc Honda and Yamaha Grand Prix motorcycle engines equipped with six speed sequential gearboxes, this Superkart class uses mostly the same chassis as the 250 classes.

It was powered by a turbocharged version of the 1231 cc Honda ER engine.

All Acclaims were powered by the transverse-mounted all alloy and overhead-cam 1335 cc engine found in the Honda Civic driving the front wheels through either a five-speed manual gearbox or a three-speed Trio-matic ( which was a manually selectable automatic transmission ) gearbox ( the same as the Hondamatic ) and the interior was nearly identical ( except for the seats ).

As the house had no electricity everything was powered from a Honda generator.

Qualifying was dominated by the Honda powered Williams, with Nigel Mansell ahead of Nelson Piquet.

As usual, Honda powered cars dominated the qualifying sessions, with Nelson Piquet in his Williams FW11B beating his teammate Nigel Mansell by less than a tenth of second ; Ayrton Senna was third in his Lotus 99T and fourth was the McLaren MP4 / 3 of Alain Prost.

Following Mansell's Friday crash, the three remaining Honda powered cars of Piquet, Senna, and Senna's team mate, local favourite Satoru Nakajima, could only qualify in 5th, 7th and 11th places respectively.

Turbocharged Honda powered cars swept the top 3 positions.

Anthony Davidson holds the unofficial lap record, set in 2006 while testing a Honda, with a time of 1 m 08. 540sec.

The Kinetic Honda holds three World Records:

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.

During the 2003 Suzuka 8 Hours race held that July, Honda paid tribute to Kato, a two-time Suzuka winner, by bearing his racing number on the Sakurai Honda bike of Tadayuki Okada and Chojun Kameya ( who in Turn 1 crashed on spilt oil on the second lap ), along with the bikes of Nicky Hayden and Atsushi Watanabe.

Despite this, Honda confirmed on 19 July 2007, that Barrichello would remain with the team as a race driver for the season.

Berger therefore won his last race for McLaren and McLaren's last race with Honda engines.

* In 1990 the race was won by the " Spirit of Biel ", built by Biel School of Engineering and Architecture in Switzerland followed by Honda in second place and University of Michigan in third.

* In 1993 the race was won by Honda.

* In 1996 the race was won by Honda for a second time.

Waltrip currently owns Honda, Volvo and Subaru auto dealerships in Franklin, Tennessee, and is a lead television analyst and race commentator with Fox Broadcasting Company and Speed TV, a columnist at Foxsports. com and an author.

The " Fourth Gen " VFR750 arrived in 1994 with styling inspired by the Honda NR race bike and minor internal changes.

The Honda CBR models are a series of Honda sport bikes several of which ( 400RR, 600RR, 900RR, 929RR, 954RR and 1000RR ) are marketed as race replicas, having the suffix RR after the engine size designation.

On 5 March 2009, it was announced that the former Honda team would race in 2009 as Brawn GP, following a late buy-out by Ross Brawn, the previous team principal of Honda Racing.

Sato retired from the race with a spectacular Honda engine failure with 6 laps remaining, possibly causing worry for teammate Button, who was in 2nd position.

Amongst the marque's more famous races was victory in the Nelson Ledges 24-hour race in Ohio when, against a field including works teams from Honda and Mazda, a four-man team from Caterham ( including both Jez Coates and Robert Nearn ) won by seven laps ( after 990 laps ) in a modified Vauxhall HPC.

Respected Japanese Formula One driver Satoru Nakajima, for example, was involved with Honda in the NS-X's early on track development at Suzuka race circuit, where he performed many endurance distance duties related to chassis tuning.

In November 2003, he dabbled with a one-off drive in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at the Homestead circuit before being called by Bobby Rahal to drive the # 15 Argent Mortgage Honda when Kenny Bräck was injured in a late-race crash at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003.

He will race for Panther Racing in the 2011 Indianapolis 500 as a teammate to JR Hildebrand driving the number 44 Honda Dallara.