Next week, Honda will reveal a new race car. It’s based on the CR-V, but from what we have seen, it doesn’t share much with the product you can buy at your local dealership. The racer will feature a hybrid powertrain making 800 horsepower (596 kilowatts), and it’s fully kitted out for the race track. Honda has already teased the car ahead of its February 28 debut, and the latest video provides a better listen to the mysterious powertrain.
The previous teaser video only offered the ears a small sampling of the exhaust note, which sounded like a V6. The latest video delivers much more than a nibble, with the full-throated exhaust note of the CR-V ounding a lot like a Formula 1 car. Its high-revving nature and high-pitched note sound strange coming out of something so family-friendly.
