Here's A Rare Chance To Own An Awesome Honda Beat
On paper, the concept of a Kei sports car seems a bit daft. Why bother trying to make something sporty for a segment of the Japanese market which restricts you to 660cc and 63bhp? And yet, these dinky little roadsters and coupes are hugely tempting, and few fill us with quite so much lust as the mid-engined Honda Beat.
Yes, it’s far from fast, but the idea of thrashing its tiny three-pot up to the buzzy 10,000rpm redline while exploiting the diminutive mid-engine chassis is a very tempting prospect. As a bonus, it looks pretty cool too - in its own cutesy way - and would you just look at those tiger print seats!
The issue with these is that they were never officially sold in the UK, which means if you want one, you’ll have only the very few that were imported to choose from. What’s more, prices do seem to be on the rise.
However, there are still reasonably priced Beats available, such as this 1991 example, currently owned by CTzen and CT friend Ollie Evans. The advert is one of those rarely seen, reassuringly long and detailed affairs, and the car - which has 61,000 miles on the clock - looks to be in good nick. It’s up for £3500.
Tempted?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Too bad I live in a country where there’s only LHD.
Dont worry dude, now that they are 25 years old, we can legally import at least the 1991 model year.
From Cars and Coffee Lehigh Valley last month.
so? i live in europe and i cant get one…
I think all three of these guys have some in stock. And if not than they can gladly import one for you. And actually Rivsu Motors just bought two R34 GT-R’s and they will be imported and registered LEGALLY! But they’re not going to be for sale because the models they bought are pretty rare.
https://www.facebook.com/hirevmotors/
https://www.facebook.com/rivsuimports/?fref=ts
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I’m in Indonesia, importing second hands is illegal here ( well unless you have a lot of money, you can bribe to get one )
The real question is. Is Miata the answer.
Depends
always!
those zebra seats tho
As much as this tempts me, I’d still go for the Cappuccino, if only for the fact that it was officially imported into the U.K, so parts should be (slightly) easier to come by.
I could do a race between my 70hp starlet and this honda beat xD
Phil’s cousin.
How come Astro’s selling it? He hasn’t had it that long
I’m glad that I’m not the only one thinking that…
He can’t afford to run two cars!
Tempted? I’m bloody sold mate! I’d love to have a Beat as my first car.
“OMG That’s a Fer-“ NO.
“That thing looks stu-“ NO.
“That’s not a Ho-“ SHUT UP
“That doesn’t look stree-“ SHUT UP.
“That looks like a fun car to drive!” THANK YOU!
sounds about right….