Dongfeng Honda launches Honda Spirior today


honda spirior2 300x199 Dongfeng Honda launches Honda Spirior todayDongfeng Honda launched the Honda Spirior today, launching what they claim to be a premium sports car for the Chinese market place.

The Spirior name is a mash up of the two English workds Spirit and Superior, the Chinese name has been set as 思铂睿 (sai bo rui), a phonetic translation of the English name.
The car itself is essentially the Euro market Honda Accord, or a US market Acura TSX. Instead of packing the V6 engines that other markets get, the Spirior will have to make do with a 4 cylinder 2.4l i-Vtec engine packing 225nm of torque, delivering 133kw of power (181bhp) and mated to a Sequential Sport Shift gearbox 5 speed automatic gearbox. The Spirior needs a leisurely 10.8 seconds to hit 100kph.

Today’s launch will see a 2.4l VTI Luxury model, VTI-S 2.4l Super Luxury, and a VTI-S Navigation super luxury model being launched, in total there are five different specifications to choose from, and six different colors.

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18 Comments so far, please add your thoughts!

  1. avatar Taeedy says:

    It would be so nice if the hypocritical “Chinese bashers” were to leave China. That should be so instead of living here, eating here, indulging in the Chinese resources etc. If you don’t like China, if it is so bad, if your homeland is so much better, why not just get out?

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