Japan Used Honda Beat for Sale

The Honda Beat JDM Car is a RWD, mid-engined, two-seat roadster kei Car manufactured from May 1991 to February 1996 by Honda Company. The Beat was the last car to be approved by Soichiro Honda before he died in 1991. The total number of JDM Cars manufactured was around 33,600.

There were two mainstream JDM Car models of the Beat one is the PP1–100 and the other is PP1–110 and a couple of limited edition versions. Variations on the first model were just cosmetic updates. Only the second model had any real mechanical differences. All cars were offered with the option of a driver's side airbag.

In typical Honda fashion, the Beat's engine did not utilize a turbocharger or supercharger. The 656 cc engine was modified with the MTREC system, with individual throttle bodies for each of the three cylinders, to produce 64 PS at 8100 rpm with an electronically limited top speed of 135 km/h. Only a manual transmission was available. The MTREC design would filter down to the 1993 Honda Today kei car.

The Beat was part of a wave of kei car-sized Sports Car in the early 1990s; its competitors included the Suzuki Cappuccino and Mazda's Autozam AZ-1. Together they anticipated the arrival of the Smart Roadster over a decade later, while Japan would not see a new model of the genre until the 2002 Daihatsu Copen.