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Filed under: Safety, Tech, Honda, Motorcycles

Many motorcycles in today’s market feature anti-lock brakes, including models from Honda like the Interceptor and Silverwing scooters. Now, though, the red-winged manufacturer of motorcycles has announced a new system which completely removes the rider’s direct connection with the front and rear brakes. Instead of a cable connection, the system uses brake-by-wire technology and allows an on-board computer to apply pressure to both the front and rear brakes as it sees fit. This new system is expected to debut on sportbikes first, which raises some eyebrows in the cycle-riding community. The highest performing bikes have ridiculously powerful brakes which are capable of locking up the front tire very easily. Still, hardcore riders have proven very reluctant to give up any control to computers, especially on race tracks, where supersport bikes are expected to thrive. Being Honda, though, there is a prevailing sense that the technology will work. Expect the new combined ABS system to proliferate to all of Honda’s two-wheelers in the near future.

[Source: Honda]

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Sports/GTs, Tokyo Motor Show, Supercars, Acura, Honda

Click above for a gallery of the Acura Advanced Sports Car concept.

By most accounts, Honda originally planned to show off the next generation NSX to the seething throngs at last year’s Tokyo Motor Show. But due to the less-than-positive reception the Advanced Sports Car concept garnered at the Detroit show, Honda’s designers headed back to the drawing board to redesign the front clip housing the 550 hp, 4.5-liter V10.

Now, Autocar has gotten word from a Honda insider that the NSX is bound for the 2009 Tokyo show, sporting a new front end that “has Chevrolet Corvette undertones” and is slated to for production in the fall of 2010.

The new NSX will supposedly kick off Honda’s first serious attempt at producing rear-wheel-drive vehicles to rival BMW, Mercedes, Lexus and Infiniti, including new platforms that will underpin Acura’s larger sedan offerings and an S2000-based Acura sports car that takes aim at the Mercedes SLK. The launch of Acura’s 7-series fighter isn’t due to make an appearance until 2015. For Honda’ sake, let’s hope they can expedite development to make it happen around the turn of the decade.

[Source: Autocar]

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Filed under: Etc., Japan

All you vintage Japanese automotive fans, we may have found your show. It’s called “Top Sales” and is being broadcast in Japan by the government-funded NHK media giant. Apparently (we don’t speak Japanese, so we are taking someone’s word on this), the plot has to do with a young woman’s journey through the male-dominated automotive sales industry at a fictional company called “Omiyake Motors.” As success often happens so readily on television shows, she starts out on the car lot in sales and quickly works her way up to president of the company. We’ll admit that doesn’t sound overly exciting, but the show is set three decades ago - this means a lot of thinly-disguised 70’s-era Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas zooming around. See if you can name some of the classics in the screen shots… Thanks for the tip, catgirlshyla!

[Source: Auto-Otaku]

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Filed under: Spy Photos, SUVs, Crossovers/CUVs, Honda

Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Honda Pilot.

The 2009 Honda Pilot has been spied in production guise, and unlike the bulldog that inspired the front grille, it’s less than lovable. With styling pulled directly from the Honda Pilot Prototype shown in Detroit, the new unibody ‘ute from Honda should arrive later this year with ACE safety features, a V6 lump with cylinder deactivation and seating for eight passengers of varying size. The interior is an evolution of the outgoing model, with a massive center stack that’s far more butch that the one it replaces, along with a new multifunction steering wheel similar to that found on the redesigned Accord. Overall, we’re not entirely smitten with the slap sides and grotesque nose, but you can check the gallery below to make up your own mind.

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