Honda rapidly refining PGM-FI, introduces CZ Motard in Thailand
Honda has been building small-bore single cylinder four stroke engines and installing them in simple two-wheelers for over fifty years. You'd imagine, then, that Big Red would know a thing or two about how to make them run well, and you'd be right. In fact, Honda has reportedly been able to eke enough power from just a single 110cc cylinder to get a motorcycle up over one-hundred miles per hour. That's really impressive, and it is made possible by advances in fuel injection technology among other things.
The prototype, known as the CZ Motard, is built atop the CZ-i 110 platform, a bike which is super popular in Thailand. With that model, Honda utilized its PGM-FI fuel injection technology and announced that it would be "the number one most admired company that is at the forefront of the environmental issue." That CZ-i 110 is capable of returning some 193 miles per gallon and is 25-percent more powerful than the previous 100cc engine, all the while meeting the next-generation Euro VI emissions standards. With scooter sales up some 65-percent, we'd love to see this model make it stateside.
[Source: Gizmag, Honda Thailand]
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Duky-dingelberry 10:26AM (8/09/2008)
193mpg I call BS.
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Ducky 10:39AM (8/09/2008)
Well, considering that the Honda Cub gets 221 mpg...
dm789 10:34AM (8/09/2008)
100mph? wow that is insane. Is that mean it is legal to ride it on US highway? I know not all scooter could reached 60mph speed and thats why they cant go on the big highways.
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Gabeeb 11:08AM (8/09/2008)
What I find funny is the name - a long time ago my friends and I used motard as insult: a blend of homo and retard. Fun times.
I can just imagine telling them now that I ride a motard.
@dm789 if it's over 50cc and your state DPS decides its got the power to do highway, then that's all that counts.
100 mph isn't really that important, if you can go 70 and get there quick enough to merge, then you should be fine.
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Dwezle 5:15PM (8/09/2008)
Still can't take it on the freeway in Ohio. 125cc or larger, set in stone.
Stupid to base the requirement on engine size, but it's left over from when mopeds and scooters couldn't even top 30mph.
Niko 12:54PM (8/09/2008)
wow thats fast 160 km/ph, it must have at least 30 hp to reach that speed, I wouldlike to have that scooter.
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Jay 1:27PM (8/09/2008)
I bought a mid 1960's Honda S65 motorcycle to restore. They were sold for 4 years (65-69) in the U.S. 65CC, 4-stroke, claimed 191 mpg. Top speed around 50 mph? I'm still in the dismantling phase and haven't started it yet to get real world mpg, but I'll testify to Honda's engineering skill at making incredibly efficient 2-wheelers for a long, long time. The specs on this new model would sound like BS from anyone but Honda. It's good to hear the emmisions are low, too. I hope they sell something similar in the U.S. soon.
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Scott 7:42PM (8/09/2008)
Way to go Honda. Bring this motorcycle or a similar one with this engine. I will buy it. As long as it can hit 55 mph in under 20 seconds, that's good enough for me.
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GenWaylaid 1:14AM (8/10/2008)
If Honda USA really did import these, I would be waiting at the dock with cash in my hand. However, they stopped selling the Cub and all related small motorcycles to Americans over twenty years ago. Honda's motorcycle/scooter division is about as out of touch with Americans' demand for smaller machines as a company can get.
My solution: buy a 25 year old Honda CT-110. Not as modern, as speedy, or as efficient as this Thai bike, but it's a Honda so it'll still run like new.
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Phil Jones 11:03PM (9/24/2008)
I can tell that the above quoted figures are probably very accurate. I live in Thailand and have a scooter new only 3 months ago - Honda 125i Wave - 125cc fuel injection with the PGM-Fi technology. It's not a fancy looking bike or streamlined, but it still does about 110 km per hour top end and returns about 160 to 170 mpg. When I first did the mpg checks I didn't believe it, thought I'd mis-calculated and checked it over a period of 2 months or so. The lowest I've ever got was 146mpg and the highest was 197 mpg. Staggering! On of the best little bikes I've ever had - I wish they would export to australia etc - they would sell zillions. Mind you, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki aren't that far behind either, with great looking bikes here in Thailand. Cost me 46,000 baht new with electric start (about $1800 Australian). Trouble is in Australia they would probably want $4000. If they take them to America, I can only highly recommend!
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