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civic Accord CRV HondaJet Honda's best known for its practical line of cars but the Japanese automaker is dipped its toes into a variety of other businesses too as generators lawnmowers motorcycles a friendly humanoid robot named SM oh and now a beautiful jet designed to ferry six titans of industry to their destination in total luxury what makes the HondaJet weird though sighs the fact that Honda is making an aircraft is the way the engines are mounted most business jets like Lear Jets Gulfstream's and the like a pair of turbo fans mounted on either side of the rear of the fuselage the HondaJet on the other hand has its engines mounted on pylons that rise from each wing Honda claims benefits to fuel efficiency and cabin space and on a jet this small you need all the cabin space you can get the plane has been in development for a long time in fact Honda started looking into business jets in the late 1980s partnering with Mississippi State University on the MHO to an even weirder looking plane that was never intended for production the HondaJet meanwhile made his maiden flight back in 2003 and has been delayed several times since then it turns out building a mock point six three luxury bullet is harder than it looks at four point five million dollars each the market for the HondaJet won't be huge but for the executives who absolutely need to get from New York to LA in the blink of an eye this might be one of the more attractive options out there they'll be able to travel over 1,300 miles between refuelings with the typical load clipping along at a brisk 420 knots at 30,000 feet even the pilots are wrapped in luxury they've got access to a battery of giant displays provided by Garmin that sit in place of traditional instruments the Honda Jets from the future and unfortunately the future isn't cheap if everything goes according to plan and the plane is certified for sale by the FAA early next year they'll run you a cool 4.5 million start saving up