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| | S2KCA Forum - 1964 RHD Honda 500 Sport For Sale on ebay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Honda's ideology was motorsport, and from the word "go" the S500, 600 and 800 were run in sports car series all over Japan, and subsequently Europe, with fine results. |
 | | Honda Motor Company's sojourn into passenger car manufacturing was fueled by Soichiro Honda's notion that the Japanese people would embrace a "sportier" option when shopping for personal vehicles that conformed with the government's small-displacement tax breaks. |
 | | Honda "Sport" (S360, S500, S600, S800) development was easily linked to the basic tenets of Honda's motorcycle origin, relying on identifiable cornerstone elements like high-rpm power from small displacement, chain drive (at first), sharp handling, liquid shifting and the car's Lilliputian dimensions. |
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