By Colin Wood
Aug 21, 2020
The N600 represented the first model to be officially imported into the United States by Honda. The small car had less than 50 horsepower was on tap, but the engine did have an unusual-for-the-time 9000 rpm redline. The N600 was sold stateside from 1970 until 1972, when it was replaced with the iconic Civic. The N600 was small–even by 1970s standards–a fact that this ad jokingly points out.
8/21/20 9:25 p.m.
It only takes 4 teenage boys to pick one up and move one down the street so the owner has to look for it. They also will float across flooded intersections. Or so the neighbor that owned one said.
8/22/20 12:46 p.m.
They certainly are cute.
I went to a Honda dealer in about 1969 (mostly motorcycles back then) to look at buying a Cortina GT, and they ran me over to look at it in a non-North America certified (looser rules back then) small truck - well, maybe trucklet - tiny flat bed , very light and run by an 9,000 rpm red line bike engine. Just looked it up - Honda T 360. It was a hoot!
8/23/20 8:04 p.m.
My first car was a 1972 Z600, purchased from the original owner while a sophomore in high school in 1974. I learned to drive a stick on the test drive of the car. That was just the beginning of my adventures of car ownership, thank goodness you were limited to 55mph!
I drove every where at the same speed as every thing else on the road, the CHP were in full gear to collect revenue for the golden state. It was good to 65, I collected a number of warnings along the way.
I can confirm that you could clown car with my self as the driver and seven young ladies. It ran out of breaks leaving school, they never knew it. They did buy me lunch.
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