Mugen's big-stick Honda
For those that feel a little disappointed in for Acura only offering a 6 cylinder in their RL flagship, tuner Mugen over at the Tokyo Auto Salon has made up for it. The Mugen concept Legend (RL) gets a transplant from a 4 liter V-8 producing over 500 hp naturally aspirated. There are some wicked things happening over in Tokyo this week. Temple of VTEC has more info.












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ebp2k2 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
holy jebus.. look at those ITBs...
I like the flared front fenders, too... looks mean and low... rear fenders look like ass on the other hand.
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Chris 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
But it's still FWD! Like fine wine from a paper cup.
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cafn8 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
Heh, yeah. I just read an article about an '85 Golf which Jalopnik, one of my other favorite car sites, linked to. It has a turbo 2.0 with a bit more power than this beastie. The owner admits that it's really too much power for front wheel drive as it smokes the tires in first through third gears. How could that be fun to drive?
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cafn8 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
Oops, I mis-read. The Golf has significantly less power.
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sparc 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
For those that didn't bother reading the article:
"the Mugen Legend Max is FR, and the transmission is manual."
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Chris 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
What is "FR"?
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Fabulo 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
FR = Front engine, Rear wheel drive
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xkred27 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
Isn't the new Legend/RL AWD (SH-AWD to be exact)? Or is it unavailable/an option across the Pacific?
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Chris 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
duh, I was thinking TL. This thing looks better now.
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AznFX 10:33PM (12/18/2005)
love legend now, last gen was a dud, but now their back to the original gen in terms of good looks
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