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The reason for the transverse engine is very simple, at the time Honda was a very successfull bike builder and had only just started car production (and very simple cars at that)
But Honda was very strong in bike racing and they thought that they way to winning was to use a bigger bike engine in a car!
They were making very powerfull 6 cylinder bike motors so what could be better than two sixes to make a twelve!
Honda did not know much about mounting an engine in a car and the last thing that you would want is an engine that wide in a car! And so it took a long while to win a race!
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