When I saw Honda's 900cc V3 with an electric compressor (read 'supercharger') at EICMA last year, I wanted to hit fast-forward on my life so I could find out what platform it'd find a home in. The Japanese manufacturer stated that this unit would pump out similar numbers to its 1,200cc engines, which completely threw me off the scent of the other potential, arguably more exciting, use of this V3 platform.
Strip the new V3 engine of its electric compressor, and you have a three-cylinder powerplant that's probably capable of putting out somewhere between 120 and 130 hp. A 900cc engine with those numbers would slot perfectly into the next-gen supersport category, and recent rumors suggest that's exactly what will happen.
