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Ever since Honda released the GB30 in 1964, Honda has concentrated on the development and production of environmental-friendly 4-stroke outboard engines. At the time, 2-stroke engines were the mainstream type of outboard engine, but Soichiro Honda, the founder of Honda, thought that discharging oil into the water was a bad idea, and took on the long-term challenge of overcoming the difficulties of size, weight and lubrication inherent in the development of a 4-stroke outboard engine.
The BF35/45 were released in 1990, featuring the same level of performance as 2-stroke output engines, and became the base models for todays BF series. These outboard engines were highly acclaimed for their fuel efficiency, quietness and clean performance, and won the Imtech Innovation Award and many other accolades in Japan and around the world. Exhaust emission regulations for outboard engines have been strengthened in an effort to protect the global environment, leading to a transition to 4-stroke outboard engines. While this was happening, the BF115/130 incorporated the Programmed Fuel Injection system for the first time in the world in 1998, and development of the BF135/150 that achieve lean burning for the first time in the world was completed in 2003. There are now 18 models in the Honda BF series of outboard engines, from the 2-horsepower BF2 to the 225-horsepower BF225. All of these models exceed the CARB 2008 exhaust emission standards, the most stringent in the world.
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| No. 1 in Customer Satisfaction in the U.S. for Three Years in a Row |
| The BF115/130/200/225 with Honda's Programmed Fuel
Injection system won the No. 1 spot in the 4-stroke outboard
engine division of the Customer Satisfaction Survey conducted
by J.D. Power and Associates in 2005, the BF135/150
won this spot in 2006, and the BF115/135/150 won this
spot in 2007. The quietness during cruising and reliability
of the engines garnered especially high acclaim. |
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| Design: Identity of Honda Outboard Engines |
| The unique form and metallic silver color of the body are the perfect match from the user-friendly small models to the powerful medium to large models, and represent the identify of Honda's easy to mount, quiet and clean outboard engines. |
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