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From: ssp@sun.uucp (Stephen Page)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: New Honda division??
Message-ID: <1971@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 12:30:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 12:30:35 1985
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References: <160@moncol.UUCP> <55200136@trsvax.UUCP> Honda has had a second division, called Verno I believe, for some
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time in Japan.  It sells upmarket versions of Honda's standard platforms -
a Audi Coupe-ish 5 door based on the Civic, for example.
	The new division in the US will sell the Honda XX, a luxury sedan
developed in conjunction with Britain's Rover.  The Brits have apparently
contributed a lot in the ride/handling and interior areas, and may sell the
Rover version here also.  Preliminary sketches showed a dynamite hatchback,
but the rather funny-looking sedan will bow first.
	Other possibilities for the new division are upscale versions of the
Civic with Fuel Injection (making the "Civic" even more crushingly superior
to a BMW 318i at 1/3 the price!) and a revised Prelude with the much-
heralded V6.  Will the nifty 4-wheeled box Honda City be in the line-up?
Probably not. 

	I gleaned all this hearsay from Britain's "Car" magazine, the finest
automotive periodical I've ever seen, and way out in front of the U.S. mags
in publishing pre-release photos and specifications of European and Japanese
cars.

=Stephen S. Page		{ihnp4, ucbvax, decwrl}!sun!spage

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