This week, Honda and a few other manufacturers attended the Bonneville Speed Challenge to put their fastest machines to the test.
The 16 Japanese engineers and 100 volunteers from Honda brought along the S-Dream to quite literally set the record straight. Together, they formed the cleverly named “S-Dream team”.
Not only did this vehicle set the fastest ever recorded speed for a Honda car (previously held by the modified 2006 BAR-Honda 007), but the S-Dream also managed to post a new FIA world record with a top speed of 421,59 km/h over one kilometre in Category-A Group-1 Class-4. That’s quite a bit faster than your friend’s Civic.
What’s most interesting about this, however, is that it was able to achieve the feat with a turbocharged three-cylinder 660 cc engine borrowed from the nippy Honda S660. Much of the speed, however, was achieved thanks to slippery aerodynamics.
This is a particularly impressive feat when you consider that Bugatti and Koenigsegg have to make use of multiple cylinders and turbochargers to get to similar speeds.
