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The only downside to this soft ride is that the Monkey has a max permissable weight limit of 105kg, which you could easily reach if you’ve got all your gear on and a bag full of ‘swag’. Servicing should be affordable, too, as it’s a doddle to work on and on top of all that Honda claim it does an impressive 189 miles to the gallon! The 30 house price hotspots of 2023: The coastal county in the North West and Scottish seaside haven that top this year’s list Its swoopy, stand-out looks and digital dashboard seemed to have arrived from another planet, its alien green-like colour (actually called ‘Citrus Yellow’) only adding to that ‘out of this world’ feel.As you may have read in previous features, bodywork and interiors can be pretty shonky when a car maker gets things wrong but, thankfully, most manufacturers nowadays know how to get it right. What surprises me is how some mainstream manufacturers still make drivetrains that leave much room for improvement. This is one of the key areas where the Honda Monkey 125 – and its MSX125/Grom brother – stand out from other mini bikes available on the market. Resist Photoshop deal: Allowing Adobe to buy Figma puts UK's digital design industry at risk, says ALEX BRUMMER It only has four gears though (although this again was uprated to five for 2021), so it does seem to run out of puff around 55mph – but that's more than enough for inner-city riding wher you also appreciate its ultra-light clutch and feather-light gearbox, meaning that changing ratios takes little effort.

Battling inhospitable terrain and multiple breakdowns, she met former American fighter pilots, tribal chiefs, illegal loggers and bomb disposal experts.

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Rarer in the UK than the 1,200-unit Toyota, only around 250 original Insights found their way here, so you might have to comb the classifieds very thoroughly. The drummer later gifted the bike to Richard Anderson, a landscape gardener, who had helped Starr move from the Tittenhurst Park premises. In typical hybrid fashion, there’s a split rear window tailgate, but all-round vision is good, despite the super swoopy styling. Then from Ludlow to Wigan it literally poured. My boots and trousers filled with water, and the large, comfortable seat made a fantastic pond to sit in.” This is also made possible thanks to stop/start technology, which can also be found on other Honda scoots; such as Britain’s best-selling PCX125.

The S800 was a masterpiece of engineering featuring a four cylinder 791cc engine with four carburetors. Based on Honda’s motorcycle technology, this engine was capable of revving up to levels unheard of by its competitors like the MG Midget or Fiat 850 and could compete with sports cars with much higher engine sizes.Honda’s modern Monkey is powered by an air-cooled, four-stroke 125cc motor producing just 9bhp and 8.1ftlb of torque – although this was uprated for 2021 – and is easy as pie to operate: key in, turn it on and the Monkey's LCD dash bursts into life and gives you a cheeky little wink (no really). Don’t be fooled, the Honda Jazz Sport is no hot hatch. However, the peppier engine and more dynamic styling do offer added appeal – especially in a market so popular with younger buyers. Those used to modern turbo engines will continue to find the Jazz a challenge, but fans of high-revving naturally aspirated units will find solace in the old-school Sport. Still, the cheaper versions make more sense.

Now car adverts are being BANNED by the woke brigade! Toyota SUV ads removed for condoning driving off-road 'with no regard for environmental impact' In fact, so ‘clean’ was the Insight, it was the only car to fall into the new VED Band A (up to 100g/km) tax grouping at the time of the banding’s introduction in 2005. The slightly less good news is that since it’s the size of a maxi scooter, the wet weight is 182kg, compared with the Honda’s 124kg. George Foreman - former heavyweight boxer and grill magnate - to sell his incredible 52-car collection at auction As well as its state-of-the-art hybrid powertrain, the Insight was equally pioneering in its construction. Liberal use of light materials and a unit-body/space-frame which used stressed sheet metal panels to absorb and distribute loads as well as extruded frame members resulted a body a whole 40 per cent lighter than a contemporary Honda Civic.

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Walking up to it at the launch in Malaga, it looks more like a maxi scooter than the dinky Honda, but that’s hardly surprising, since it’s basically the J300 Kawasaki brought out two years ago, but with a smaller engine. Boost for motorists as fuel prices fall sharply after intervention by markets watchdog, the AA reports