Honda VF1000R

So Honda finally gave us the V4 sports bike we’d been waiting for but the beautiful RC213V is horrendously expensive. How about a V4 for us non-lottery winners?

- Kar Lee

The long-awaited V4 sportsbike that had been talked about for so long was finally released for public consumption in 2015. But production limited to just 250 hand-built units, most of us will never see one on the road, or track for that matter. At £137,000 for the base model (and that’s without the £10,000 sports kit that unleashes an extra 50bhp on top of the stock 165bhp) it’s pure exotica that is out of reach for most. However, if rumours are to be believed, there may be a more affordable version on the way wearing the ‘RVF1000’ moniker but we quite like the sound of ‘VF1000R’…

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