Honda’s Racer model is arriving in the market. The Racer is designed by the Honda R&D Americans, Inc., in Torrance. It’s a part of the Hot Wheels Designer’s Challenge to celebrate the 40th anniversary of die-cast. The Racer appears on store shelves in May-2008.
The Racer will come with V-10 VTEC engine. The velocity stack and an intake which accepts air through the structure of car sits between DOHC valve covers to give a advance look. The exhaust system is a huge set of twisted and balanced tubes residing on engine, matching the power-plant design at the rear end of the car.
The Honda Racer combines the excitement of Honda’s racing heritage with Hot Wheels’ reputation for speed, power, performance and attitude. The core concept is built around our idea for an ‘ultimate racecar’ and leverages the design freedom made possible by a scale model car.
- Guillermo Gonzalez (Senior Designer of Honda R&D Americas, Inc., and designer of the Honda Racer) said.
Sure, it is awesome to play with the cars on the orange track again, but I discovered that designing a Hot Wheels car is very different and in some ways more liberating than designing a production car. For example, the primary design constraint is that the car had to fit on the orange track and perform a loop. Aside from that, the possibilities are without limit.
- Mr. Gonzalez said.
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