Honda will show off its Project 2&4 car this year at Frankfurt and 14,000 is the number that stands out the most. That's the redline for its V-4 engine, which is borrowed from the RC213V. Other impressive numbers: The car is roughly 10 feet long, 6 feet wide and 3 1/2 feet tall, and weighs only 405 kilograms (892 pounds).
The mid-mounted engine, which is borrowed from a racing motorcycle, produces 211 horsepower at 13,000 rpm, but only just 87 pounds-feet of torque at 10,500 rpm. A six-speed DCT transmission handles power to the wheels.
If you ask me (you didn't) Honda should make this immediately because the world needs more track-day cars — we have enough crossovers already. But that's just me and I'm wrong a lot.
According to Honda, the car was inspired by the 1965 RA272, which Dario Franchitti once called a "flying gas tank." Here it is in action.
Honda didn't say whether the Project 2&4 would ever see production, only that the company will show it off in Frankfurt. Stand B11, Hall 9.0 if you're there.
(Archive photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.)
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