Sixty-five years ago the Honda Motor Co launched a machine ... When I was at Car in the late ‘80s we had a long-term test CRX and that one had a VTEC engine; the first that any of us had ...

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The list of winners is as weird as ever: Honda CRX Si (1985-91) – up 53 per cent (your first car is now worth more than your first house). VW Golf GTI (1983-92) – up 29 per cent.

Sitting sideways under the hood is Honda's D16A6 inline-four. That's a 1.6-liter SOHC 16-valve motor that, when new, offered up 108 horsepower and a flat 100 lb-ft of torque. This was pre-VTEC so ...

The Honda CRX (also called the Civic CRX or CR-X depending ... especially when higher-performing VTEC engines were eventually installed under the hood for some markets. The third-generation ...

With the departure of the Civic-based CRX, only the Civic Si and the Prelude were left to carry the torch for sporty Hondas at this time. The 1993 Prelude VTEC was the first Honda in the U.S. to ...

Carlson has a habit of rescuing unusual autos and on this visit to Leno, his show and tell was an old Car and Driver project: the May '85 cover car twin-engine Honda CRX. Leno was appropriately ...

The CRX was a total classic this time, that proved Honda's powertrain genius again with the rev-crazy VTEC engine. Major changes now. The five-door was now a Golf-sized thing, with an extended ...

The engine was the VTEC 1.6-liter B16A2 inline-four ... to entice younger buyers into getting interested in Honda cars and it worked. The CRX, unlike the 2+2 Japanese version, was only sold ...