Honda RA106

Honda RA106

Honda

MarqueHonda
Power650-775 hp @ 19,500 rpm
Race record1 wins from 18 races · 0 championships

Among the 277 Honda entries in the MotorJury library, the Honda RA106 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Honda RA106, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Honda RA106 reads like this: quoted output is 650-775 hp @ 19,500 rpm; kerb weight is recorded at Fuel = ENEOS. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Honda story

Within Honda's own catalogue the Honda RA106 sits alongside the Honda Envix, the Honda Crider, the HPD ARX-03, the Honda 0 SUV. The record names the BAR 007 - BAR Engineering / Honda RA301 - Honda branded / Honda RA302 - Honda branded as its predecessor and the RA107 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Geoff Willis / Gary Savage / Kevin Taylor / Willem Toet / Mark Ellis / Ian Wright / Russell Cooley / Simon Lacey / Mariano Alperin / Kazuo Sakurahara.

On the record

The Honda RA106 also has a competition record: 1 recorded wins from 18 starts and 0 championships. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Honda RA106 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.

Specifications

Kerb weightFuel = ENEOS
Wheelbase3145 mm
DesignerGeoff Willis / Gary Savage / Kevin Taylor / Willem Toet / Mark Ellis / Ian Wright / Russell Cooley / Simon Lacey / Mariano Alperin / Kazuo Sakurahara
PredecessorBAR 007 - BAR Engineering / Honda RA301 - Honda branded / Honda RA302 - Honda branded
SuccessorRA107
Catalogue IDQ2428669

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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What it costs to run

Ownership verdicts are computed from NHTSA complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, re-priced for your country. Verdicts are published per model year as the data is ingested — browse them live, or open the true-cost calculator to price any year yourself.

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