Skrivet av Administrator 2009-08-04 16:11

MUGEN - meaning "Unlimited" - engines have famously powered hundreds of race and championship winners since the original company’s formation in 1973. Many of these have been with Honda products and currently include NSX Super GT (Japan’s most prestigious race series), F Nippon, and Integra one-make series. Outside of Japan, the Honda 2.0 litre-based F3 engines developed by Mugen have been consistently successful, names such as Mika Häkkinen and Rubens Barrichello springing to mind as F1 drivers who won F3 championships in the past with MUGEN-POWER.

MUGEN also designs and develops race engines under its own brand name, most prominent of these having been the MF458S LMP1 unit which won in the Japanese Le Mans Series.

MUGEN EURO is headed by Mr Satoshi Katsumata, Managing Director of M-TEC, as President and Mr Hiroki Toyoda as Vice-President in charge of day-to-day operations. Both are extremely experienced in motorsport and in powertrain design and development, and are supported by a locally recruited workforce.

Two years on from its formation in the UK, MUGEN EURO has:

• become successfully established in Northampton in premises which include a current F1-standard transient engine test cell
• been acting as official distribution channel, exclusively for competition use, of the 2.0 litre K20A series 225PS Japanese-market engine, as used in Touring Cars and CN sports-prototypes VdeV series, including Gr-N homologation of the engine.
• formed a technical partnership with famous Italian team JAS Motorsport in the FIA’s new R3 rally class, resulting in 3 wins in the first 3 events and following customer orders.
• become the exclusive supplier powertrain supplier to two single-make sports prototype series
• supplied over 200 engines to engine preparation companies and car constructors in the UK and continental Europe.
• scored a first-time-out win in Super 2000 Touring Car Racing in the highly competitive Swedish Championship in June 2009.
• in May 2009, introduced MUGEN original tuning parts to the UK market via approved retailers for a range of HONDA models including the Civic and the Accord.

The MUGEN Euro website can be found here.