Honda drops Hurricane Name
 

Has anyone heard that Honda quit calling the 600 & 1000 because Insurance Companies wouldn't insure them?

Sounds funny to me, interested in the Topic however Kawasaki managed to keep the Ninja™

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I hadn't heard that.

Around here insurance companies don't care what its called. They have a list of red-listed and black-listed bikes.

Some insurance companies will NOT insure GSXR's, CBR's or ZXR's. Period. Regardless of whether they're called Ninjas or Hurricanes or Roadbunnies.

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You want to talk killing power? Body count? Give me a handful of revenge-crazed Ninja warriors over a category 3 hurricane any day.

RE: Honda drops Hurricane Name
 

I've hard something similar that bikes named after disasters, ie Hurricane's , Typhoon's, Tornados, relate to death in large numbers so Honda and a few other car manafacturers dropped the names. Cant feel the same for a VW Rabbit can you? Unless its a killer rabbit!

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

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umm guys I think Honda killed off the hurricane name over a decade ago lol.

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Only the first generation of CBR's were called urrican,s and only in north America, i don,t know but is more of a marketing thing i belive, just look at car manufacturers , barracuda, firebird , satellite corvette, it always worked until the german started making high ends cars and giving them names like sl500, audi 3 bmw 3etc,.. mazdahas gone that way too.


for me i prefer cbr, fj etc...

Funny that thye used hurricane as a storm because , ther was a second world war plane called huricanne, the next gt they made they called it super blackbird...

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Try 20 years ago!

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I thought it ended when the F2 came out but was trying to be nice :D I had a 88 cane, when the F4's came out lol.

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So the F4 was an '89?