Honda N360 – Revoluční kei car, který změnil Japonsko

Úvod

Honda N360 představovala průlom v historii japonského automobilismu. Kompaktní kei car se stal okamžitým bestsellerem.

Technické specifikace

• Motor: 354 cm³ vzduchem chlazený dvouválec
• Výkon: 31 k při 8 500 ot/min
• Pohon: Přední kola
• Produkce: 1 165 144 kusů

Přehled

The Honda N360 is a small car manufactured and marketed by Honda from March 1967 to 1972. Built as both a two-door sedan and three-door wagon , the N360 has a front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout and seats four passengers.

After a January 1970 facelift , the N360 became the NIII360 and continued in production until June 1972. A larger-engined variant, the N600 , was marketed through 1973. All models used a straight forward two-box design that complied with kei car dimensional regulations — though vehicles with the 401 cc and 598 cc engines exceeded the kei engine displacement limits and were largely intended for markets outside Japan.

The N360 featured front-wheel drive and an air-cooled , four-stroke , 354 cc, 31 PS (23 kW; 31 hp) two-cylinder engine. While ultimately derived from Honda's motorcycle engines, the N360E engine has a 360-degree crankshaft angle (" parallel twin ") unlike the 180-degree "vertical twin" setup typically used on Honda's two-cylinder motorcycle engines. This same engine was used in the Honda Vamos , where it was coupled with a beam axle / leaf spring rear suspension.

The simple N360 name, along with its variants, used the "N" prefix, which stood for norimono and translated from Japanese to English as vehicle (or car ) — distinguishing the cars from the company's motorcycle offerings.

Zdroje

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