At the Osaka Motor Show in Japan, which opened on March 19, Honda officially unveiled the HAWK11 of the Hawk series. HaWK11 positioning is a cafe racer model, after the release has attracted countless domestic Motorcycle friends to discuss, some like this design, there are also dislikes, it can be described as difficult to reconcile.
HAWK11
This design had an indescribable feel at first glance. In fact, the mention of Honda's cafe racer has to be associated with honda's previously released CB4intercaptor concept car.
CB4 intercaptor interceptor
Due to the earlier influence of CB4 intercaptor, the expectation value of Honda's new cafe racer is also relatively high, and there was news that CB4 intercaptor will be mass-produced, and the appearance of HAWK11 inevitably makes people feel that there is a gap.
Triumph speed triple 1200rr
Cafe racer originally originated in Europe, and its rounded lines are characteristic of it, such as the typical British triumphal speedtriple 1200rr. When the exterior design of the European caferacer has been accepted by younger consumer groups today, the tough style of the HWAK11 vehicle is naturally difficult to be accepted by the moyou for a while, but we look back at the design of Honda's CBX250S similar to cafe racer in the early years, as a moyou from that era is actually more receptive to the honda HAWK11 design style, which is also the main reason for the polarization of the evaluation of this car.
CBX250S
In fact, if you have paid attention to the comments on the HAWK11 car related articles, you can observe that the evaluation crowd for Honda's HAWK11 can be divided into two factions, in which I summarize as the emotional aesthetic school and the modern aesthetic school, but the appearance of this aspect is indeed a radish greens have their own love, there is no high or low right or wrong.
Speaking of Honda, it is not only after the release of the HAWK car, the market acceptance crowd is polarized, and the early shark DN-01, which was discontinued within a few years of listing.
The DN-01 was launched in 2005, and the look was edgy at the time, just replace the full set of luminaires, the DN-01 is still a well-designed model today, and Honda once equipped the DN-01 with HFT hydraulic transmission technology.
Unfortunately, the design of this car at that time was too advanced, consumers were also a few joys and worries, coupled with high maintenance costs, expensive prices, and sluggish sales of DN-01 was finally discontinued in 2010, and then the people who liked it were supplied as treasures, and those who did not like it have been forgotten in history.
There is also the CM series that is now relatively hot in China, and there was also polarization at the beginning of the debut, after all, the V cylinder of American cruise and the shape design style are as pure as Harley and Indian in the eyes of the Chinese people, and the CM series is simply the model of the Japanese bone beautiful skin.
Honda's CM, its predecessor is the rebel series model, compared to the American cruise is not moving is the huge physique of the public bottom, the rebel series of cars is lighter and more dexterous, sales in the European and American markets and word of mouth has been good. Let's take a look at the design of the early rebel models.
Rebel 250
Honda's mid-improved rebel500
In fact, this is what we often call the Prince model, which is strictly derived from the American cruise created in Japan in order to break into the European and American markets in that era, mixed with Japanese design.
When the CM series first came out of the news, I personally felt a bit sandwiched, there was no American cruise of the kind of very strong and domineering fan, the engine is not a large displacement V cylinder and full word no reason, especially the CM300 engine front and rear and the gap between the frame, no! That can't be called a gap, it's a hole that can casually pass through a bottle of 600ml mineral water. Friends who like American cruising will naturally be very picky about this.
CM300
CM1100
Harley 883 Tough Guy
After that, the reason why I changed the CM series model was the sense of low seat and high footing after I test drove the CM300, and because of the displacement of the model, the CM300 made this car able to bring driving confidence to most riders, which made me temporarily abandon the appearance and re-examine the car from the riding point of view.
I think that the driving experience of this car is not only without the bulkiness of driving compared to American cruise, but also a little more lightweight and more convenient to handle. According to the feedback of the novice Moyou around them on the intention of this small displacement cruise model, this set car greatly reduces the threshold for them to touch the motorcycle, and the main reason why the gold/flash brothers of domestic manufacturers are very popular in the novice village is also here.
Another example of Honda is the NEO CAFE series model, but the 300cc is too fierce in the country, and the 650cc has also begun to set in the past two years...
summary:
These products of polarization in Honda's history are actually proving Honda's status, once successful, Honda can use them to cut leeks to the soft, profits let it lie to win, failure can also accumulate experience, all when the cost of scientific research, loss is not worried. This is the oligopolistic effect, the stronger the bigger, the bigger the stronger, horizontal and vertical are wins.