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Honda’s fun, funky Super-One an EV for petrolheads

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Retro revival: The Super-One looks like a contemporary rerun of tallboy hatches from the 1980s and 1990s.

Retro revival: The Super-One looks like a contemporary rerun of tallboy hatches from the 1980s and 1990s.

ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR

Christopher Tan

SINGAPORE – When parallel-imported cars started to gain a foothold in Singapore about 30 years ago, authorised dealers argued that those cars were not tropicalised, a process which makes products more suited to the hot and humid tropical climate.

For instance, tropicalised cars have bigger radiators or more powerful air-conditioners.

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