“ONLY HONDA WOULD CHOOSE TO LAUNCH A VERY HOT, FRONT-WHEEL-DRIVE HATCHBACK AT THE END OF 2022”
Now go and watch the video on BBC iPlayer
Some of you will remember motoring journalist and beard enthusiast LJK Setright. He was a celebrity car writer long before anyone had made a television programme about the horseless carriage. His writing was hugely complicated and he held some controversial opinions. He advocated very fast driving on public roads, he preferred automatic gearboxes back when they were mostly crap – but he was rightly viewed as having very eclectic tastes that he backed up with insight and knowledge. Which is why people like me found it baffing that he liked Hondas.
Because for most people Honda just made rather boring cars for people who retired to Bournemouth. It took a crazy looking English dude to educate a geek like me about this Japanese company which appeared to be obsessed with over-complicating everything.
Setright marvelled in the engineering quality of a company that was perfecting rear-wheel steering systems and variable valve timing when most European carmakers were
