5/14/14

Honda Civic Tourer become the first station wagon on racing

Swanley , - Have you ever seen station wagon driven in racing? perhaps, Honda Civic Tourer become the first station wagon on racing.

Station wagons , according to the model , usually synonymous with the family car . But not so in the minds of the British racing team Touring Car Championship ( BTCC ) , Honda Yuasa Racing . BTCC Champion 2012 and 2013, decided to wear the Civic Tourer , to race the 2014 season .

In fact , this season Tourer Civic to be the only once the first contestant to compete with a station wagon body , after Tom Walkinshaw Racing to do it with two units Volvo 850 on the 1994 season .

Civic Tourer variant has an extra long 235 mm compared to the hatchback version , with a luggage capacity of 147 liters . The rest is almost nothing to distinguish the two. The entire engineering design was done by a team of Honda UK and Germany .

Although designed as a family car , of course customize the specification BTCC regulations . Concoction 4 - cylinder engine , 2.0 -liter , turbocharged , reliable and experienced mechanics processed , Neil Brown . Cardiac pacemakers are more than willing to give off power 300 PS , embedded technology is the forerunner version of the Civic Type R performance variant that will be born next year .

Curious Tourer Civic action bulldoze Circuit ? Check out this video .