Honda VF

The Honda VF was a series trademark for motorcycles with a 90 degree V-four petrol engine that Honda Motor Co. once built and sold. The Japanese article explains the background: the Dream CB750 Four of 1969 was first praised worldwide, but by the mid-1970s, as rivals launched four-cylinder models, it was no longer special, and the cry rose that all Japanese bikes were the same. Honda therefore announced under Shoichiro Irimajiri, then head of its two-wheeler division, a return to international racing and a search for a new generation of engines, and developed vehicles with three engine types, including the OHV engine of the GL500, which inherits the bore and stroke of the 3-litre engine of the first-period Formula 1 machine of 1977, and the DOHC six-cylinder engine of the CBX1000. The VF series is the V-four line that came out of that effort.