This Investment-Grade Honda Beat Version Z Is Almost Legal

"PhiLOL" (philol) 06/03/2015 at 14:31 • Filed to: The Daily Turismo, NPOCP, Honda, Beat, Honda Beat, Daily Turismo, Kei Cars, Kei, JDM

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Next year, when the earliest 1991 Honda Beats are eligible to bounce like skipped stones onto U.S. shores under the 25-year rule, all of cardom will rejoice like we did for the R32 Skyline GT-R, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and others. This particular Beat, however, won’t be begrudgingly allowed welcomed onto American tax-funded roads for another five years. Until then, it will make a very pretty garage decoration. Find this 1995 Honda Beat for sale in Riguad, Quebec !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for $9,999 buy-it-now, with 7 days to go.

The Beat was a spiritual successor to the early S600 and S800 roadsters, and was built to comply with Kei car regulations: a 1.4m-wide car with a 660cc engine making 63hp. The Pininfarina-designed three-cylinder roadster was a Japanese-only, single-generation orphan that could achieve 9,000 RPM or over 40 MPG, but not both.

With just 55,000 miles (86,500 kilometers) and no major modifications, this two-owner Beat is in much better shape than the one we featured in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It comes with a new Robbins soft top, new floor mats, and everything you need to drive it in Canada besides ear plugs and a generally cheery disposition. Scratch that last one - a 1,600-lb mid-engined roadster with a bike engine is the epitome of joy.

If your insatiable car lust is triggered by foreign forbidden fruit, don’t blame me for posting this: The seller posted it on eBay motors. In U.S. dollars. And Beats have been legally imported before. Get an accountability partner, or take a cold shower and think about baseball, though, because this won’t be an easy car to title. You may skirt by under off-road use only. Or, just wait until 2020.

See another car on the cusp of legal importation? Post it below.

PhiLOL actually likes the tuna here, but abhors structural rust. Save the manuals.

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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > PhiLOL 06/03/2015 at 14:35

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This was also the last car that Soichiro Honda personally approved before he died and his company started going to shit.

SaveTheIntegras > PhiLOL 06/03/2015 at 14:41

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the need is strong...

Opposite Locksmith > PhiLOL 06/03/2015 at 14:43

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I wish these were here and cheap. I'd have one with a h22 and one with a crazy liter bike engine in it

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > PhiLOL 06/03/2015 at 14:47

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I’m moving to Canadia. They get all the fun toys

Sam > Opposite Locksmith 06/03/2015 at 14:49

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Did sombody say, H2R engine swap?

PhiLOL > SaveTheIntegras 06/03/2015 at 14:59

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Your handle is wonderful.

PhiLOL > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 06/03/2015 at 15:04

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He was indeed a legend. Can you imagine having this tour de force of engineering, efficiency, heritage, and fun as your swan song?

PhiLOL > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 06/03/2015 at 15:05

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If we all close our eyes and think really hard about having our 25-year-rule replaced with the 15-year-rule, maybe it will happen. Worth a shot?

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > PhiLOL 06/03/2015 at 15:10

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I’m on board with that!!

Kanaric > PhiLOL 06/03/2015 at 15:17

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the fact we have all these mall crawlers all over driven by people with half a brain and the fact this only has 63hp i woul dbe afraid to drive this here