Honda To Hold UK Premiere of New 2008 Bikes
Honda has announced that its new 2008 motorcycle range, one of the most exciting ever, will be unveiled for the first time in the UK at this year’s International Motorcycle and Scooter Show (23rd November to 2nd December) at the Birmingham NEC. Among the many new bikes sure to turn heads on the Honda stand, (1E20) are the long-awaited CBR 1000RR Fireblade, the XL650V Transalp and the CBF600. Honda is the latest big-name manufacturer to announce that its 2008 UK premieres will take place at the NEC. With seven weeks to go until the Show opens, consumers are already licking their lips in anticipation of the biggest collection of new bikes ever seen at the UK’s leading two-wheeled Show.
Honda’s impressive array of bikes will be fronted by the CBR-1000RR Fireblade which has seen a dramatic overhaul for 2008 as a result of feedback from James Toseland, whose Fireblade helped him win the World Superbike Championship for a second time. The all-new machine is now slimmer, smaller and lighter, with a revised engine and a radical hi-aerodynamic fairing. Honda’s perennial XL700V Transalp has also been on the receiving end of a significant re-design with a brand new 680 V-Twin engine and a more powerful fuel-injection system housed in slick new bodywork. While the new CBF600 becomes lighter, sleeker and more manoeuvrable, Honda will of course be bringing their usual impressive and hugely successful array of MotoGP, World Superbike and British Superbike machines to the NEC.
Today’s announcement adds Honda to a stella list of world-famous exhibitors, all showing off their glistening new bikes at the NEC Show. The ever-popular Ducati returns by popular demand to the Show for 2007, while fellow-Italian marquee Benelli also makes its UK debut at the NEC this year. They will be joined by a host of the biggest names in biking, including BMW, Buell, CCM, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Hyosung, Kawasaki, KTM, PGO Scooters, Suzuki, Triumph, Victory Motorcycles, Watsonian Squire, Wuyang and Yamaha.
Steve Martindale, General Manager, Honda (UK) Motorcycle Division commented; “2008 is going to be a really big year for Honda with some groundbreaking new bikes hitting the market and growth coming from both small and large bikes due to the new test regulations. The International Motorcycle and Scooter Show is going to be the first time the British public will be able to see them for real.”
Finlay McAllan, Managing Director of MCI Exhibitions, commented on today’s announcements:
“This year, more than ever before, we are providing visitors to the Show with the best and most exciting selection of bikes ever seen all together in the UK. This announcement from Honda takes us another step closer to the ultimate bike line-up and proves that the NEC Show really is the place where the biggest names in biking all want to be seen and show off the best the industry has to offer to the UK market for the first time.”
Honda (1E 20) will be situated in hall 1.
This year’s Show take place on the new dates of 23rd November – 2nd December (Press Day – 22nd November), in new halls 1, 2, 3, 3a & 4. Ticket prices have been frozen for a third consecutive year making the Show even better value.
This article was taken from: Superbike News
