Karaté Kid

“Does the seat go back any further?”, I ask. “No, that’s as far as it gets.”, the owner tells me. OK, this is going to be fun…

Trying a Honda S800 for the first time is a mind-boggling experience even before turning the key. This was the first Honda car adapted to the global market, however, it fails do mask the fact that it was born in a parallel reality.

It’s like an if alien mission of superior intelligence had stopped by the Earth, seen our engine technology and evolved it with resources we didn’t yet have. However, those aliens were tiny and scaled the S800 according to their planet… Japan.

Article originally published in Topos & Clássicos magazine