Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Honda Civic in five-door's very tempting at 2012 WTCC

LONDON - The unit to be developed is a four-cylinder gasoline engine 1.6-liter to follow the FIA Super 2000 regulations.

Honda Civic in five-door's very tempting at 2012 WTCC

Honda announced it will take part in the event of the FIA ​​World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) using the European version of the Civic.

Japanese car manufacturers will work together with Mugen and JAS Motorsport. As a first step, racing the engine assembly will be prepared which will be built by Honda R & D.

Furthermore, along with a team of J.A.S. Motorsport engine and the car will be developed simultaneously. Honda used cars based on the five-door Honda Civic. Its own production will be done at Honda Swindon.

"We've decided to take part in the WTCC event with the European Civic. We will develop a totally new engine for this project. We sanbat eagerly accepted this new challenge, "said Honda CEO Takanobu Ito.