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The electric immobiliser/alarm system was invented by St. George Evans and Edward Birkenbuel and patented in 1919. [2] They developed a 3x3 grid of double-contact switches on a panel mounted inside the car so when the ignition switch was activated, current from the battery (or magneto) went to the spark plugs allowing the engine to start, or immobilizing the vehicle and sounding the horn. [3]
In automotive electronics, body control module or 'body computer' is a generic term for an electronic control unit responsible for monitoring and controlling various electronic accessories in a vehicle's body.
The Asia-Pacific-market Civic is a rebadged Acura; Honda Japan claimed the company chose the Canadian-designed Acura CSX as the template for the Asia-Pacific Civic. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In Canada, the Acura CSX has features and options not available to American Civics, such as a 2.0 L DOHC i-VTEC engine rated at 155 hp (116 kW), chrome door handles ...
Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) is Honda's term for its variable displacement technology, which saves fuel by using the i-VTEC system to disable one bank of cylinders during specific driving conditions—for example, highway driving. The second version of VCM (VCM-2) took this a step further, allowing the engine to go from 6 cylinders, down ...
A Honda Civic engine with CVCC. CVCC, or Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (Japanese: 複合渦流調整燃焼方式, Hepburn: Fukugō Uzuryū Chōsei Nenshō Hōshiki), is an internal combustion engine technology developed and trademarked by the Honda Motor Company.
The tenth-generation Honda Civic (FC/FK) is a compact car manufactured by Honda from 2015 until 2022, replacing the ninth-generation Civic. It was first released in November 2015 in the North American market, followed by its introduction in Europe and Asia-Pacific in 2016, [ 6 ] and in Japan in 2017. [ 7 ]
The Honda R engine is an inline-four engine launched in 2006 for the Honda Civic (non-Si). It is fuel injected , has an aluminum-alloy cylinder block and cylinder head , is a SOHC 16-valve design (four valves per cylinder) and utilizes Honda's i-VTEC system.
The Honda Civic GX first appeared in 1998 as a factory-modified Civic LX that had been designed to run exclusively on CNG (compressed natural gas). In 1998 the Civic GX cost $4500 more than a comparable Civic LX. [10] The car looked and drove just like a contemporary Honda Civic LX, but did not run on gasoline.