Honda City Appreciation

[octagonalpaul]

The Honda City was a special car, mainly because it was one of the very few cars Honda have ever Turbo'd and because it's rather small. Want 100bhp, a digital dash, top speed in excess of 110mph and an AC coolbox onboard? All of this in such a perfect tiny package in 1982.





















But wait, that's not quite all. Honda also developed a little Moped type thing called the Motocompo, designed specifically to fit in the boot of the tiny City!



madness, but what a wonderful little car.

[xjlee]

Oh my god thats awesome, that built in bike is awesome ;D

[scott420]

love them. wonder if theres any in the uk

[Deleted]

yes there is, there's (a silver I think) one on the forum somewhere complete with a Motocompo.

[waveman1500]

One of the members on here has the car AND the Motocompo! His name is smithy13, here is the Readers' Rides thread.

retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=102868&page=1

[Deleted]

That's the one. My searching ability lately has been made of fail.

[waveman1500]

Mar 16, 2012 2:31:23 GMT @volksangyl said:

That's the one. My searching ability lately has been made of fail.

I used Google, the built-in forum search feature is terrible! Just type your search terms into Google and then 'Retro Rides'.

[polojoe]

Awesome looking cars, and that bike is fantastic! Proper retro.

[Uncle Silvia]

I saw hundreds of these little things in NZ as they were made out there as well as in Japan but all were normal hatchbacks or cabrolets.

[smithy13]

YESSSSS! Finally some recognition!

I've got a Honda Jazz/City.

They were called Jazz in Europe as Austin Rover owned the City name for the Metro.

Mines not a turbo unfortunately just a 1.2 CVCC Honda. Still 56hp so I've got 10 or so horsepower on a metro!

I've only ever seen 1 turbo 2 bulldog in the Uk. It was about 3feet high after the owner rolled it a couple of times!

I got offered a turbo one about a year ago in Sheffield. £2500 and it was in a terrible state.

Turbo 1's are not as desirable as the bulldog as the bulldog had the flared arches and came in championship white just like the DC2 integral and Ek9 civic type r.

The turbo engine was the first production engine mugen ever built for Honda.

As for the bike, they're pretty rare and when ones come up for sale they do fetch rediculous prices. Loads of those in Japan for sale but not many in Europe or the uk.

Also forgot to mention the reason why there's so many in NZ. NZ never had the Austin Mini or Metro so Honda saw that there was a market for small nimble little cars and took a chance to build a rival to the mini.

[79cord]

HAD to add some shots of the City Cabriolet which had had additional design (construction?) input from Pininfarina.




And of course there was a second generation of City for 1986 to carry on the name, though curiously Honda did a complete turn around and abandoned the Tallboy packaging that had been one of the highlights and most distinctive features of the City when introduced for notably low mini Civic hatch styling

[rmad]

marcoonthebass.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/madness-play-madmen-for-honda-story.html

[jiminwatford]

Mar 15, 2012 17:12:29 GMT octagonalpaul said:

madness, but what a wonderful little car.

Exactly

[octagonalpaul]

that video is a mixture of purest excellence!

[grizz]

I saw one in great condition , one owner from new, not for sale, I love my car, you have a lovely day now, I have to go see my husband now..... at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth the end of last year.

[tofufi]

I used to live down the road from this one...



Never saw it go above 20mph, and it was driven by a tiny lady who I'd like to imagine has had it from new

[smithy13]

When I look on howmanyleft.com it said there were 11 on the road. I only knew of 1 more which belonged to Gene on here and 1stgencivic.com which had a 1.4 honda civic sport engine!

There was a video not so long ago of a jazz in poland with a D16b JDM Civic vtec motor. Does 1/4 miles in like 10 seconds!