Sport/Street!

IDC what Honda or anyone says any motorcycle named the 'INTERCEPTOR' is not a damn touring bike. Its a sports/streets bike. Period.

 

The term "HERO" sometimes gets used too often, but thank you for having the courage to say this. Finally somebody did, lack of context be damned.

I will hug my wife when I get home, peak into the garage to give a wink, and then sleep very peacefully tonight.

 

Yet "Interceptor" implies going very fast in a straight line. The F-104, F-106, Mig-25, and English Electric Lightning were all famous interceptors designed to take off, and zoom to altitude and fire a missile, but were not designed to turn and burn (dogfight). Wayne Rainey, Freddy Spencer, Fred Merkel, and Bubba Shobert proved that the VFR was indeed a dog fighter...turn and burn!

 

TBH, the VFR was only called "Interceptor" in North America. American Honda liked to apply special names to the bikes it sold in the US. During the 19990s, everything had a model name and also a marketing name. Hurricane, Super Hawk, etc. Sorry, but if you ask me the true Interceptors were the MFP Ford Falcon XBs featured in Mad Max I...

Ciao,

JZH

 

The last of the V8 Interceptors... a piece of history!
Would've been a shame to blow it up.