Three Corners, One Fire and a Sad Spaniard - Honda Blows its Top... Again

[St3fan]

Honda is doing fine in the GT500

Honda has been known for "running GT400 group in GT500" for quite a few years now. Wouldn't call staying in the far back of the leaderboard "doing fine".

EDIT: I now figure you might mean the IMSA. Acura is doing fine in the US.

 

[JayJayRaceinho]

Really not the best advertising for honda cars

Alonso should go to a top team or a reliable manufacturer and honda maybe back to F3.

 

[Tim Meuris]

Honda is doing fine in the GT500 and Indy but F1 is way above their technical grade i guess. Im about buying a new car...looked at Honda and thought :better a douchbag than standing still on the highway

Honda is doing fine in wtcc, btcc, tcr, moto3, moto 2, motogp. The big letdown is f1. I do start to believe this is above their heads sadly.
But comparing f1 with their everyday cars is just shortsighted. It's like comparing apples with... lettuce. I bought myself a 1.6idtec civic 9th gen last year: it's an awesome car. I would prefer this anytime above a golf or frenchmen.

 

[thepharcyde]

Honda is doing fine in wtcc, btcc, tcr, moto3, moto 2, motogp. The big letdown is f1. I do start to believe this is above their heads sadly.
But comparing f1 with their everyday cars is just shortsighted. It's like comparing apples with... lettuce. I bought myself a 1.6idtec civic 9th gen last year: it's an awesome car. I would prefer this anytime above a golf or frenchmen.

Shame they did not bother with suspension in the rear woeful oversight / cost cutting exercise

 

[Tim Meuris]

Yes and no, they did it in the 10th gen, not in the ninth. The tenth rides even better but the ninth is much more practical thnx to the magic seats which were possible with that type of rear suspension, now no longer possible in tenth sadly...

 

[thepharcyde]

Yes and no, they did it in the 10th gen, not in the ninth. The tenth rides even better but the ninth is much more practical thnx to the magic seats which were possible with that type of rear suspension, now no longer possible in tenth sadly...

The suspension in both the 8th and 9th gen had nothing to do with magic seats, wishbones sit under the car not in it.

Jazz also has magic seats but normal suspension.

I think what you meant was a bigger boot due to its false floor ordinarily consumed by a RFT

 

[Tim Meuris]

No thnx to that rear torsion beam and no independent suspension in the 8th and 9th magic seats were possible (also bigger boot). That's why the new jazz still has magic seats: it's built on the platform of the 9th gen civic