2019 Honda Super Cub test ride
The Honda Super Cub is the best-selling vehicle of all time, with over 100 million produced since 1958, and it's back in U.S. showrooms for the first time in 36 years with a modern twist. Fox News Autos editor Gary Gastelu took the retro bike for a ride to see how it holds up in the 21st century.
American Honda’s latest model is a Chevrolet.
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As part of the automaker’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of its U.S. operations, it has restored a 1961 Chevy Apache 10 pickup to replicate the trucks it used in its early years to deliver motorcycles around Southern California.
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The paint job on the white two-door perfectly matches one found in an archive photo taken outside the company’s original headquarters in Los Angeles.
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The half-ton features a 160 hp 283 cubic-inch V8, 3-speed manual transmission and an 8-foot bed that Honda has filled with a 1965 Honda 50 Super Cub alongside a 1965 CB160.
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Honda this year reintroduced the Super Cub to the U.S. market this year for the first time since 1983 with an all-new version. Honda has sold over 100 million around the world making it the best-selling motor vehicle of all time.
It won't be needing Chevy pickups to deliver them in. It's been making its own, the Ridgeline, since 2006.
