If Honda Could Make This Track Car, That'd Just Be The Best

by Aaron Cole

Updated: December 31st, 2020 Published: September 9th, 2015

if honda could make this track car that d just be the best

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.

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Kosmo on Sep 10, 2015

Honda, busy torturing car guys the world around!

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Voyager on Sep 10, 2015

Honda has to make up for its blemished track record in this season's Formula One. McLaren is reportedly not amused because of the poor quality of its Honda racing engines. Eddie Jordan even went so far as to say that Honda hasn't been itself for a long time, as far as pride, reputation, engineering skills.

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