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4 March 2021 5:03 pm / 6 comments
The Honda Legend with Honda Sensing Elite will go on sale in Japan from March 5, with a production run of just 100 units earmarked for the carmaker’s home market. It will be priced at 11,000,000 yen (RM416,630) including the local 10% consumption tax rate.
Available as a sole Hybrid EX variant, the Honda Legend is powered by a 3.5 litre direct injection V6 petrol engine that is paired to a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission with Sport Hybrid all-wheel-drive (SH-AWD).
The automaker’s suite of driver assistance systems in the Legend includes active lane change assist with hands-off function, active lane change with hands-off function and Traffic Jam Pilot, and enables Level 3 automated driving, for which Honda has received approval from the Japanese ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism (MLIT).
We don’t spend much time randomly checking in on the paint colors available on today’s minivans. No offense to minivans or their color palettes, but we just don’t expect much in the way of excitement. A tweet from Chrysler’s new parent company, Stellantis, about the Pacifica minivan‘s new-for-2o21 Fathom Blue paint caught our attention, however,