Used Honda Ballade Spares For Sale

The Honda Ballade was a compact car built by Honda of Japan. It started as a four-door high-end version of the Honda Civic in 1980. The Ballad was developed at the same time as the Honda Vigor, which had a higher content level than the Honda Accord. The Ballad was sold exclusively in Japan by Honda Verno dealers with the Vigor, Honda Prelude , CR-X, and Honda Quinto. In the UK, it was released at the same time as the similar Triumph Acclaim that had a Honda-built engine.

The name of the car is the French word for a “ballad”. The Ballad competed in Japan with the Toyota Sprinter , the Nissan Laurel Spirit and Nissan Sunny.

For 1987, the Honda Civic was significantly redesigned, with a worldwide release in 1988. The suspension has a radical configuration that Honda calls “double suspension suspension” on all four corners, the wheelbase also increased to 2500 mm. The bodywork was fully redesigned with a lower bonnet line and more glass surface, resulting in much less drag. The rear suspension can be more accurately described as a multi-link towing arm suspension, as the upper control arm has only a single anchor.

More powerful engines

The base model of the fourth generation Civic had a 1.3 L single bono box, but this single carburetor engine was not available for the Japanese and US markets.

The 1.5 L single bono engine is available in a wide range of models, with either twin injection, either single carburetor or dual carburetor. These more powerful engines were available in the Japanese market than the 25X and 25XT.

But there was more to come, and by the end of 1989, the top-model hatchback was the new SiR , equipped with a 1.6 L, 160 PS (118 kW; 158 hp) at 7600 rpm B16A DBNA-VTEC engine. It was the first B-engine, and also the introduction of Honda’s variable valve timing and electronic valve control technology, or VTEC. By providing two different camshaft profiles – one for fuel economy, and one for performance – the VTEC engines set a high-speed, naturally-aspirated precedent for future Honda Civic performance variants.

With its light weight, independent suspension and powerful engine, the car is well received around the world. The Civic wins the “Golden Steering Wheel Award” from the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag , and the first place in France’s l’Automobile magazine for quality and fidelity in 1989.

The European model, named the “1.6i-VT”, uses a slightly less powerful B16A1 engine, delivering 112 kW at its 8200 rpm red line.