New V5 VFR1000F announced

[lostinflyz]

The V5 has also popped up on thebikergene with a little more info about why they think it's happening.

http://www.thebikergene.com/sportsbi...ith-v5-engine/

that makes a bit more sense. sounds like people are making a big leap from patents that honda has got and a few basic assumptions.

pretty much they've combined the ideas embodied by the older vfr models and added all honda's crazy patents. And assumed honda must make a new VFR replacement someday. I think the photos however are a bit of a stretch. will have to wait and see really. Good idea on the frame however.

[yod]

they do say the pics are their concept, not actual photos of the real beast

[NZsarge]

Honda have "announced" a new V5 VFR apparently.... Me first !!!

See MCN here .... Yes yes - Its MCN but it looks real.

Another link HERE

Looks good...

Damn if that's not a shit load better looking than the new Fireblade.
That could usher in a new era in sports tourers blah blah.... I like it.

[Scruffygit]

Not according to Honda

http://www.visordown.com/motorcyclen...mail&attr=news

Someone is telling porkies, who could it be? Honda or MCN?

Tough call that one

[gav]

While there is a new VFR1000 due there is no guarantee that it would be a V5, I think the patents showed both a V4 and V5 platform, no doubt they have built both prototypes and trialled them, my guess is we will see a V4.

[gav]

It's one of the reasons Ducati was cleaning up in WSB, until the RC465 was converted to "big bang" mode. Then when Ducati was allowed a capacity increase, Honda had to go to a v-twin as well to catch up.

Huh? Capacity increase? When? This had nothing to do with Honda building a vee twin. The rules for any manufacturer since WSBK first started back in the 80's was 750 4 cylinders, and 1000cc twins. Then multis were allowed to 1000cc with restrictor plates.
Its only this season that the limit has been increased to 1200cc for twins.
The RC45 always ran a 360 degree crank.

[OOk]

They sold the Rune at a loss, as well as the RC30, the RC45, and the full on CR250 and 500 Mxers. Honda pwn motoring in Japan, on 4 wheels and 2, and pull stuff like this to remind the other motorcycle manufacturers just who is Queen. In comparison, Suzuki are backyard shed assemblers, Yamaha Hobbyists, and Kawasaki's motorcycling efforts are viewed as the efforts of a crazed and deranged favoured Son of KHI- not particularly serious or threatening. To be frank, I hate parking my Kawasaki next to a Honda, not because of any of the normal NZ preoccupations with the suppossed questionable sexuality of Hondas and their riders, but because a bike of the same vintage will look less used.

It might not've sold very well, but I'm not sure that makes it a failure. Ever seen one? Seen seen one? It has a certain ... air to it.

Dave

Yes, I've seen ONE (on the street) and that's not how you run a business. I love Honda's (I have an '07 600RR) but I don't believe Honda gained ANYTHING by building the Rune. It was a huge sales failure and a huge marketing failure. At least bikes like the RC30 and 45 respectively have a racing heritage and they also built those bikes because THEY HAD TO. It's called homologation. They are forced to build so many street bikes so the race bikes can be allowed to race (hence worth taking a loss on). What relivance does a 1000cc V5 have to racing? Nothing. If anything the fact the current VFR's engine spec is more relevent to racing is hugely ironic! 800cc's (check). V4 (check). Do those specs remind anyone of anything??? lol.

[OOk]

my guess is we will see a V4.

I agree 100%. Can't wait to see it.

[Swoop]

my guess is we will see a V4.

If so, they will have to have done a bit of work to get the extra cc's shoehorned into the engine... <--- Honda engineer working on doing just that.

[OOk]

If so, they will have to have done a bit of work to get the extra cc's shoehorned into the engine... <--- Honda engineer working on doing just that.

C'mon. They did oval pistons, how hard can 200 more cc's be?

[huck farley]

MCN has a distribution of 1.3 million mags a week globally. I personally doubt that they wouldn't fuck around with Photoshop pictures and sacrifice that sort of revenue..... I for one can't wait to have a look at it!!

[Fatjim]

MCN has a distribution of 1.3 million mags a week globally. I personally doubt that they wouldn't fuck around with Photoshop pictures and sacrifice that sort of revenue..... I for one can't wait to have a look at it!!

Its customary to use p/t when taking the piss.

[vifferman]

I don't believe Honda gained ANYTHING by building the Rune. It was a huge sales failure and a huge marketing failure.

It was built almost exclusively for the Mrkn market, based on one of several concept bikes, one of swhich (the Rune prototype) got lots of positive feedback. Maybe in the execution of converting the prototype to a street model, something got lost in translation, or the price was too high.

But back to the fabled new VFR...
While I was in Italia, I saw an Italian bike magazine at a truckstop, with the cover and lead article being about the new VFR. Let's hope it was a joke, as it was fucking hideous, and bore absolutely no resemblance to any of the VFRs to date. It looked like the mutant offspring of the DN-01, a nekkid BMW, and a goat. I wish I could claw my eyes out and somehow erase the memory from my head. I am consoled by its obvious lack of VFR DNA: this points to it being either a hoax or a type-setting error.
The one useful 'fact' I did pick up when horrifiedly perusing the article was that it was a V4. If that means anything, given the erroneous nature of the article as a whole...

[huck farley]

It turns out that there will be no VFR 1000 after all, the whole fukn thing was a scammed Photo Shop mock up. I don't know about you guys, but I personally get fucked of when this happens. As far as MCN goes I will never ever believe anything they print again.
Fukem
Huckleberry Harley

[hazard02]

...my guess is we will see a V4.

http://www.visordown.com/motorcyclen...bike/5667.html

Looks like it.

From the article:

'With 2008 marking Honda's 60th anniversary as a company and 2009 celebrating the 50th anniversary of Honda's participation in road racing, as well as the 30th anniversary of racing with an innovative 4-cylinder V-engine with oval pistons, Honda is today proud to unveil a World Premier V4 concept model, which signifies the beginning of a new era and design direction for the marque's motorcycles based on Honda's trademark 4-cylinder V-engine. '